Battle Posted August 16, 2016 Share Posted August 16, 2016 This is my first post on here but I've been lurking on and off for a few years. I've been building model aircraft for a while but after a few years in which model railways have been my main interest I've returned to aircraft and over the summer I've built a few (finally finished an Airfix Eurofighter, Airfix Boston, Airfix Lightning F2A and an Airfix Vampire T11). I have built very few non-Airfix kits (just a few Revell kits) and this was my first Hasegawa kit. I picked this aircraft for no particular reason other than it looked interesting to build - it was very much an impulse buy. A little research later revealed that this kit is very old and as I discovered is rather poorly detailed. However for only £7.49 I think it was worth it! Overall fit of the parts was OK, except that the locating tabs on the undercarriage doors and weapons pylons didn't 'snap' home as some more recent kits do. The instructions, especially for painting were nowhere near as good as Airfix instructions, although as I have built quite a few kits now they didn't really cause me much trouble. I'm quite happy with the result, it's perhaps not my best paint finish as there are quite significant 'ridges' along the grey-white boundary. But I can cope with that. It was all brush painted and decals were those supplied with the kit. My only change was to replace part of one of the undercarriage assemblies with a piece of a paperclip cut to length because the original fell off or got lost at some other point, I never did quite work out what happened to it. Overall build time was 9 days, one of my fastest ever. Of that, construction probably only took about 4 days, if that. Anyway, on to the pictures: Thanks for looking. 14 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vince1159 Posted August 16, 2016 Share Posted August 16, 2016 Fantastic looking Corsair Battle and welcome to BM... 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Battle Posted August 16, 2016 Author Share Posted August 16, 2016 Thanks very much! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark4700 Posted December 24, 2016 Share Posted December 24, 2016 Very nice Corsair. Thinking of getting this one myself. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stevej60 Posted December 26, 2016 Share Posted December 26, 2016 Great Corsair,love the gray/white era for U S Navy aircraft and that's a great scheme. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jimmyg352 Posted January 1, 2017 Share Posted January 1, 2017 That's a lovely example Battle. The 'flight deck' needs attention though! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HOUSTON Posted January 1, 2017 Share Posted January 1, 2017 (edited) On Tuesday, August 16, 2016 at 3:27 PM, Battle said: This is my first post on here but I've been lurking on and off for a few years. I've been building model aircraft for a while but after a few years in which model railways have been my main interest I've returned to aircraft and over the summer I've built a few (finally finished an Airfix Eurofighter, Airfix Boston, Airfix Lightning F2A and an Airfix Vampire T11). I have built very few non-Airfix kits (just a few Revell kits) and this was my first Hasegawa kit. I picked this aircraft for no particular reason other than it looked interesting to build - it was very much an impulse buy. A little research later revealed that this kit is very old and as I discovered is rather poorly detailed. However for only £7.49 I think it was worth it! Overall fit of the parts was OK, except that the locating tabs on the undercarriage doors and weapons pylons didn't 'snap' home as some more recent kits do. The instructions, especially for painting were nowhere near as good as Airfix instructions, although as I have built quite a few kits now they didn't really cause me much trouble. I'm quite happy with the result, it's perhaps not my best paint finish as there are quite significant 'ridges' along the grey-white boundary. But I can cope with that. It was all brush painted and decals were those supplied with the kit. My only change was to replace part of one of the undercarriage assemblies with a piece of a paperclip cut to length because the original fell off or got lost at some other point, I never did quite work out what happened to it. Overall build time was 9 days, one of my fastest ever. Of that, construction probably only took about 4 days, if that. Anyway, on to the pictures: Thanks for looking. Your Corsair is STUNNING and very IMPRESSIVE. Edited January 2, 2017 by HOUSTON 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Battle Posted January 3, 2017 Author Share Posted January 3, 2017 Thanks for all the encouraging comments! I really enjoyed building this aircraft. I'd definitely like to build some more US Navy aircraft in the future. On 1/1/2017 at 5:26 PM, jimmyg352 said: That's a lovely example Battle. The 'flight deck' needs attention though! Haha - yes I agree. It would make deck landings even more exciting! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jean Posted January 3, 2017 Share Posted January 3, 2017 Hi Battle, this Corsair looks rather good! Well done! It is indeed quite old! I bought mine in the late 70s in a model shop in Richmond for about 2 Quid... along with quite a few other Hasegawa US Navy kits. And I even built that A-7, after re-scribing the whole kit and wasting a lot of time deepening the air intake, which, if I remember correctly was pretty much non-existant... But what a fun build! I like the decals supplied, as this paint scheme is really smart. Bottom line, congratulations for finishing this kit! JR 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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