Very nice double-whammy indeed!
I need to agree with Jim above, and note that yellow cowling is a striking feature.
Great looking cockpit detail too.

Spiros, @fiveten
I have made more progress last night on the Goodyear Corsair. I have another treat in store. I have been tinkering around with a home made display base to use when I take pictures of my completed models and post them in the headlines section. This was made using a 24 inch by 48 inch sheet of thin plywood. Using some model railroad scenario stuff, I have made an improvised base to take pictures on. I made it so big, because I want to pose our mutual build 1/32 scale He-219 "Uhu" on it.

Here are some pictures of it... Keep in mind this is not completed yet, but you get the general idea of what it will look like.

Here is an overhead view.

To give you an idea of how big it is, I placed the NAS Jacksonville 1/48 Tamiya Corsair on it in this next photo.

I did a more close up picture of it here.

I took a few more pictures of previous builds. These are all 1/48 scale planes. Starting with a Tamiya FW-190 F-8


followed by an Airfix Hurricane.


I still have some work to do with painting some lines and simulated tar strips where the sand paper sheet edges are joined together.

Then I want to build a hangar too... More on that later.

I have plans to build another one of the parking / photo bases, but it will be geared more towards a Pacific coral runway strip or desert scene... Enjoy !

Jim, @jimh
I have plans to build up more Corsairs in the near future. After all, one can not have too many ! The photos you posted earlier of the Akron airfield, along with the amazing stuff from Michel Verschuere @michel-verschuere
Have encouraged me to make this photo base. I have been searching for pictures of the various style aircraft hangers that were in use during WW2. I want to build one big enough to house a large 1/32 scale plane like the Revell Uhu.

So please stay tuned. I have been itching to make a F2G... Race 18 comes to mind with it's orange nose and overall gloss sea blue.

You guys were the inspiration for this.

This base looks gorgeous, Louis @lgardner! And I am sure it will look even better after your finishing touches!
I still have to build some kind of display/photo base fo my models, the big ones definitely included...just haven't concluded to what I want...
Your idea looks great!

This is what happened out in the work shop last night... 🙂

Don't tell anyone, but I used a set of Luftwaffe seta belt decals for the harness... I picked a set that looked "close enough". I wanted to drape them over the seat back and connect them to a place near the armor plate, like the real plane would have been done.

However, the decals were too short, as they are designed to fit a Bf-109 or FW-190 which have a smaller cockpit. So if someone knows what they are looking at, they will know the harness and how it is attached to the upright back part of the seat is a "No Go".

It looks better than nothing at all. I have more of these left over, and will be using them in the future on some upcoming Luftwaffe builds.

The instrument panel was touched up...

and the clear canopy parts were installed. After these photos were taken, I used some Testors adhesive for clear parts and filled in the small gaps where the sliding portion of the canopy meets with the home made wind screen.


This one is getting much closer to being done now...
as always comments are encouraged.