Chance Vought F4U Corsair
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RNZAF F4U-1A
Hello again:
This is from this time last year - my first 'Kiwi' build since washing-up here in 2012. It's the superb Tamiya 1:48 Corsair, but with a few extras: An Eduard 'Zoom' set for the cockpit, Ultracast resin prop & wheels and a [...]
Academy 1/48 F-4U Corsair
Another one of my favorite Warbirds, F4-U Corsair. This Academy kit is fairly detailed, in this scale it could be richer on details, however the fittings were well satisfactory requiring little putty. I buid it direct from the box, I use [...]
Corsair chasing a shadow… or a zero… or… in the clouds
Mid 1943 – a lone Corsair pilot has chased an unidentified aircraft into a cloud, and is now frantically searching for it. It is a fellow Naval Aviator? Is it an enemy aircraft? Or maybe just his own shadow?
“I Can’t Identify that [...]
F4U1 Corsair. 1/48 Tamiya. Lt FOY R. GARRISON
Hello Team
As I won the Imodeler’s random award in April and had no time to send a big Thank You to all & the Administrator, I decided to post a new Corsair, the big brother of the one who won the prize. This is another [...]
1/72 Šmer(Heller) 0835 Chance Vought F4U-1 Corsair ,Guadacanal 1944
Years ago im build this CORSAIR mostly from the box adding resin wheels
TRUE DETAIL & Eduard eched seat belts.and engraved panel lines
paint Xtracolor by brush .
This product is somewhere in the midle years of building kit in ninety [...]
A Good Year for Corsairs
Here is my 32nd scale Tamiya F4U-1 Birdcage, built to depict the prototype Goodyear FG-1 built in Akron Ohio and first flown in about June of 1943.
Goodyear missed introducing the Corsair during the earlier Blue Gray and Light Gray paint [...]
Birdcage Corsair. 1/72 Hasegawa
I always wanted a F4U1 as a birdcage but, few years ago, the only kit available was the old but still good Hasegawa. I had just to rescribe it.
For now, I'm considering that I have been very strong and too far with the weathering...
Very [...]
Review: Tamiya 1/32 F4U-1A Corsair
Designed in response to a Bureau of Aeronautics request for proposal in February 1938, for a single-engine fighter with a top speed over 350 mph, a landing speed of 70 mph and a range of 1,000 miles, Vought’s XF4U-1 Corsair was supposed [...]
Review: Sprue-tour! Tamiya 1/32 Corsair F4U-1A
It's a beast sure enough - both the kit and the length of this video!
1/48th Tamiya F4U-1A Corsair
More and more I find myself building to model a plane that appeals to me as a result of seeing it in a photo. That was the case in my FG-1A build. The actual plane was FG-1A 13374 which was a stock Goodyear Corsair modified to flight test [...]
