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Good Sunday! The last from the production line is a F4U-1A from the VF 17 "Jolly Rogers" when based in the Solomon island, in Ondogo New Georgia mid November 43. This unit was supposed to be the first to use the new fighter on carriers, but went through a lot of problems which led the transfer of the VF 17, until the problems were solved, to the hot Solomon front during the US offensive to Bougainville. The plane of "Butch" Davenport, white 33 is represented here. The land based Corsairs are a real great subject to try or improve your weathering technics, as the coral sand, humid weather, and constant missions were merciless to the airframes and colors. This is my attempt, thanks for looking, cheers, Jean. F65B531C-5C1F-41D5-B58A-6843123CDB6C_1_201_a by jean Barby, sur Flickr 8F007124-9109-4E63-9BB5-660E136F7A8E_1_201_a by jean Barby, sur Flickr CE4DB262-6948-42BF-A15F-A808F3C162BB_1_201_a by jean Barby, sur Flickr A1A21DA8-796E-48F3-BFEA-6C5C685B5EA4_1_201_a by jean Barby, sur Flickr 2BDCF77D-AABF-477A-9B61-0298DC1FB1A6_1_201_a by jean Barby, sur Flickr 35EB8C17-52A6-4413-AD25-F5CA830A5156_1_201_a by jean Barby, sur Flickr B92228E0-71D1-45EB-83D9-14FC28AB4CC3_1_201_a by jean Barby, sur Flickr B92228E0-71D1-45EB-83D9-14FC28AB4CC3_1_201_a by jean Barby, sur Flickr 0DA42966-42A3-48B8-BBE9-316FAB0A4AC8_1_201_a by jean Barby, sur Flickr
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Well having won the vote, it's the Hobbyboss F-14A which will hopefully be better than the Hasegawa one i've fought to submission Adding to the mix is an Aires cockpit And FCM decals to make it an aircraft from a proper squadron - VF-111 (and NOT the CAG bird !) Work starts with the cockpit which surprisingly for Aires fit's quite well :-) You do have to take off a lot of the underside molding plug to get the wheel well in place - and remember to glue the wheel well in place before starting fitting A coat of Aircraft grey to start the painting, after some Black primer Then on with the Pit painting - still more work to do but getting there Peter
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Just finished, the nice Trumpeter 1/32nd F-8E Crusader in nice CAG markings. Built OOB apart from the Aires Cockpit set, which fits nicely with minimal fuss. Painted with Gunze paints throughout, i've kept it deliberately clean as it's a CAG bird, and it makes a change. As a sense of scale, the printout of carrier deck is A3. The Work in progress thread is available here Peter -
Actually started this last weekend, but hadn't really got a lot done to show. After the nice little spitfire, this is HUGE. To go with the kit i've also got the Aires Cockpit (which is lovely), and the SAC metal gear (which is somewhat disappointing really). Most of time last weekend and a lot of today was spent on the intake - lots of ejector pins to fill, then sand to get it all smooth. Ended up with about 3 attempts, and being honest still isn't as smooth as i'd like it. Then on with the pit - sprayed gunze aircraft grey, then detail painting with vallejo model colour, and some oil weathering. Peter
