OK boys and girls, here we go. Today's painting progress is here.
I started out by painting on the Flat White color on the undersides.
Sharp eyed readers will pick up on a 3rd set of landing gear and inboard flaps. These additional parts will soon be used for a John Bolt F4U. I will be building up one of the planes he flew while flying with VMF-214 very soon, since the Iron Werke is running at full wartime capacity now. Also look out for a few FAA U-birds, and one from the RNZAF as well (OK maybe two of them) 😉 you know how I am...
These are the main landing gear. It's easy to assemble them first, then paint them as a unit.
Here you can see the 3 sets of inboard landing flaps. I was in the zone, and didn't take any pictures of the actual Corsairs after only the Flat White paint had been sprayed on.
I sprayed the white paint on first... In hindsight, it would have been easier to spray the outer wing panels first. Here I have painted them using Model Master Intermediate Blue color. I'm old school and still prefer enamels. They stick and don't peel up when you remove tape.
Here I am coming back and masking off the outer wing panels, in preparation for painting the "Flat White" color along the wing fold line. On some of these Corsairs, this line was sharp, on others it was feathered in. One these two Boyington Corsairs, existing photos show they were sharp. So I masked them off to make a clean demarcation line in between the colors.
Now I have masked off the rest of the underside of the wings.
Both Corsairs are ready for the Flat White paint to be re-sprayed along the wing fold lines.
The Flat White has been sprayed on now, touching up the areas along the masking.
It would have been much easier to paint the outer wing panels first using Intermediate Blue, then paint the Flat White on afterwards.
This is how they both looked after I removed the masking tape.
When I was spraying on the Intermediate Blue, I sprayed the rudder and fin. I will come back now and start masking off the rest of the fuselage and upper wings in preparation to spray on some more Intermediate Blue, and Dark Sea Blue.
If time permits, I will try to get this done tomorrow.
So please stay tuned.
As always, comments are encouraged. Thanks for stopping by.
