Chance Vought F4U Corsair
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My intent was to take the Christmas break and crank out a OOB build just for fun. Funny how plans don't always work out. Always liked this bird and was able to see quite a few in the air at an airshow near Indianapolis several years ago. [...]
The impetus for this project was 4 corsairs residing in my stash - 2 Hasegawa's (used here), a Testor kit, and a newer Tamiya. I wanted to keep the Tamiya for a French version that I had purchased decals for, so settled on the 2 [...]
Another shelf of doom finish. Corsair painted with Model Master Paints. Weathered with Mig wash. Tamiya Pilot finished with Tamiya paints and Mig wash.
Cheers Brian
While bringing the F2G Corsair into production, Goodyear modified a number Corsairs with different components that would be used on their production F2G's. The R-4360 was test fitted and flown on a F4U-1. Some components tested on other [...]
Here's my rendition of the Arii (originally produced by Otaki?) 1:48 scale F4U-1A Corsair. Even though it's well over thirty years old, the Arii kit builds into a nice Corsair. The good points are very accurate outline and shapes, finely [...]
Here is my rendition of the very popular Tamiya 1/48 Corsair "Bird Cage" F4U-1 with the supplied kits decals of VMF-213, which I find plenty interesting.
As many of you probably know, judging by how many of these can be found on [...]
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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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]