Chance Vought F4U Corsair
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The Erickson Aircraft Collection Museum is located at the Madras Airport, a 45 minute drive north of Bend, Oregon on Hwy 26 near the intersection of Hwy 97N. The collection was originally founded by Jack Erickson of sky crane and aerial [...]
Kenneth Walsh was born in Brooklyn, NY on 24 November 1916. At age 17 he enlisted in the Marine Corp in December 1933. He was sent to Parris island, So Carolina for boot camp. He became a mechanic and a radioman while stationed at [...]
As you can imagine by now i really like 1/72 scale . The Academy kit is simple but with some rivets it suddenly becomes more interesting . I decided to do some chipping using the hairspray technique . A three colour scheme is wat i chose [...]
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Hello my friends,
This is my first post here...I am Dragan Suzic, and I am from Serbia.
I am presenting you my latest work, it is model kit of F4U-1D from Trumpeter in 1/32 scale. Aftermarket here that was used was Eduard [...]
Taking a break from all of the excitement going on around here right now, the YouTube shooting within view from my home and with helicopters hovering over my house I decided to post this.
This is an (almost) "Nose Art Group" [...]
When I purchased a couple Tiger Model AFV's a while ago, I also got a couple of tooncraft which resemble Hasegawa's eggplanes. One of them was a Bf109 and the other a Corsair. To get my mojo back I got my hands on the latter one recently [...]
Another Tamiya kit at 1/48 scale (all my aircraft models are at the same scale...) It belongs to US Navy VF-17 Jolly Rogers at Pacific Theatre of Operations in 1944.
I suspect most any modeler who has been at it for a while decides to take on a challenge to do something a bit off the beaten track. I've always been attracted to the F4U Corsair and have lost track of how many of them I've built over the [...]
I just cannot build enough F4U's, especially the later version models such as this "-5N". This particular model was sitting in my stash for over 10 years. I had passed it over many times because it was just a [...]