Birdcage Database

The Birdcage Database at iModeler

Items tagged with Birdcage
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Crippled Corsair

by Gabor Kapuy on November 7, 2022 · in Aviation — 15 Comments

If I have to name one plane that I really love and admire, that would be the F4U Corsair, especially the wartime variants. Actually this plane got me into scale modelling. When I was young, I came across with Revell's antic 1:32 Corsair, [...]

Tamiya 1/48 F4U-1 Birdcage Corsair - Ken Walsh

by Joe Bianco on March 14, 2022 · in Aviation — 19 Comments

Ken Walsh was the first Corsair Ace while serving with VMF-124 arriving on Guadalcanal in February 1943. Walsh claimed his first three Japanese planes on 1 April 1943 and two more in his next combat action, 13 May 1943. Walsh brought his [...]

Flying Leathernecks...1/48 Vought F4U-1 Corsair, VMF-213 "Hell Hawks", USMC

by Reinhard Spreitzhofer on November 19, 2021 · in Aviation — 13 Comments

Here´s my dad´s newest model. Tamiya kit, Eduard seatbelts, EZ line for brake lines and antenna wires, painted with a blue-gray selfmix /Tamiya XF-18 + XF-2) and Gunze H51 Light Gull Grey. Wanted to use HGW wet transfers. My dad tried [...]