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giemme

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  1. Cheers Johnny, thank you! Thanks Erwin! Glad if I can be of any help Thank you Alan, much appreciated! Thanks Simon! I just thought it was the easiest way to fix it Grazie Massimo, you are way too kind! Thank you Dennis, glad you like it! Thanks Cookie, I'm pretty happy with them too! Here's a small update, I only spent a few hours on the WE at the bench. While dealing with the outer wings seam (nothing worth a picture, so far) I started addressing the exhausts; this is what Tamiya supplies: Forget the placemet, which is quite incorrect, but those pseudo-pipes are way undersized and incorrectly spaced. In no way they are suitable to represent this: (picture from https://www.net-maquettes.com/pictures/vought-f4u-corsair-walkaround/) So I hacked some plastic... and scratch built the terminal part of the exhaust pipes from suitably sized brass pipe, shaping the visible end with a Dremel sanding disc they are just dry fit in place with some blue tack, so not the correct position nor spacing, but I think you get the gist. I might just sand them at a slightly sharper angle, I will see before gluing them in. To refine the through and give the idea of some side walls, I glued in two strips of very thin styrene, coming from one of those low-on.plastic yogurt cups I used TET fast setting glue here, but the styrene strip were so thin that I had to be very careful not to melt them completely. Once properly cured, I refined them with a razor blade and I sanded the edges: Now I need to do some more dry fit, involving the fuselage too, to determine the proper placement for the exhausts and to figure out a way to secure them in place... Next time, though. Dulcis in fundo, a couple of question for the Corsair experts: I was doing some research about the approach light, and found this build: https://www.hyperscale.com/features/2001/f4u1arl_1.htm which contains this comment: "I took the opportunity to fill in the landing light near the left wing tip, which was moved to the leading edge of the left wing after BuNo 17930" Again while researching, I found that BIG HOG is BuNo 17640. So, if I'm getting this right, I should fill in the port wing leading edge too; what do we think? Second question: what is this tear drop shaped dimple on the very outer panel of the wing? It's on both wings, and top and bottom. Should I fill it in? Thanks in advance for any help. All comments welcome Ciao
  2. 30 years??? Did you engage as toddlers??? Excellent fix on the canopy, and great progress overall Ciao
  3. Happy New Year to you, Tony! 🥳 Amazing ypdate, as usual Ciao
  4. As I said in your WIP, impressive job with all those decals, Alistair! The paint job and the build in general is also excellent! Ciao
  5. I love this one, Cookie! Excellent metal effect, for an overall fantastic Jug! Ciao
  6. Impressive paint job! And the little diorama looks ace! (and I can see the subtle ripples ) Ciao
  7. Looks like you have the fit issues sorted, Simon! Ciao
  8. Glad you're staying warm And great to see the fuselage in one piece! Ciao
  9. It is, and I'm sure your model is more than fine at normal viewing distance Ciao
  10. Nice progress, Simon - and good to hear you're going to be warmer when modelling... Ciao
  11. Excellent job, Alain Passing the scrutiny of macro photography with flying colors! Ciao
  12. Really? 😱 Are you mellowing? Seriously, it looks super neat from here Ciao
  13. Happy New Year to you too, John! And yes, let's hope it's going to be more peaceful. Thank Johnny, glad to be of service I hope you keep feeling better Anyway, Happy New Year everybody, and let's see some update on this; as mentioned in my last post, I tackled the main wheel wells with the hairspray chipping, and here's the result: Once gloss coated, I glued the upper inner wings to the lower part: As you can see, I also glued in the intakes; it's a good thing I did a dry fit before, otherwise I wouldn't have spotted that their back side is visible through the wells, and needed to be painted beforehand: The intake fit was not very good: Starboard side even worse, with a big step on the bottom For this side, the complexity of the shapes and the "composition" of the step was too much to just fix it by sanding/blending in, so I decided to glue on a thin plasticard patch: Once reworked (starting with a Dremekl sanding disc to remove the bulk, refining with the usual sanding tools) and rescribed, it looked like this Primer will tell if it needs more refining (very likely), but for the moment I'm leaving it be. For the other side, I just went with regular sanding: I glued the outer wings halves too, here's starboard one: Stall strip installed as well I will work on the gun camera once I have removed the joint seam. Here's a detail of port wing: According to this thread: on the F41-D there's an approach light jsut inboard of the guns, and my pic shows the rectangular housing for it; was it the case also for the F4U-1a? I also did a bit more work on the fuselage; first off, I forgot to open the antenna mast housing before gluing the two halves so I had to carve it out afterwards: a dry fit of said mast shows something I didn't like: the mast base did not cover the housing completely, basically because the mounting peg under the base is, on one side, flush with the base itself. So I thinned it (filing away the excess): then I glued in a styrene shim, to reduce the size of the hole and here's how it looked afterwards Much happier now I also took care of the seam line, which as I probably mentioned ran all along the fuselage and tail fin, top and bottom: A dry fit of the inner wings assembly with the fuselage revealed a small alignment problem: basically the bottom window framing is supposed to slot into the bottom rib that sits right before the firewall, where the control bar is attached. It's a very tight fit and, probably because I glued in the cockpit assembly slightly rotated along the longitudinal airframe axis, it caused the wing to align to one side, rather than being dead center with the fuselage (I hope this make sense). Anyway, simple solution, I just snapped off a bit of plastic to enlarge the receiving slot, and Bob's your uncle: That's it for this update, all comments welcome Ciao
  14. Cheers Simon, thank you! Grazie! Thanks Johnny, very kind of you Thanks Cookie, much appreciated! Alright, Happy New Year everybody! I managed to do some more painting on this during this holiday break, albeit not that much; here's a little SBS on how I painted the protective waistcoat (if that's the name...): first a base coat of Lifecolor Matt Brown Then a heavy drybrush with Lifecolor Tan Followed by another drybrush with Lifecolor Sand Yellow Then I painted some highlights again with Sand Yellow and added a dark brown wash/filter then another highlight/dark wash stage I eventually clear coated it with a mix of W&N Galeria Flat clear and Gloss clear (90-10) I then painted the various belts and buckles, using a mix of black and brown and the already mentioned Tan and Sand Yellow, and Italeri Gloss Brass for the metallic bits - all followed by a black tempera wash and a flat clear coat Same treatment, plus some dry brushing with Sand Yellow, for the belt bag Before tackling the vest, I also painted the hands: That's it for this update, all comments welcome Ciao
  15. Tricky issue you have been dealing with, Johnny - I don't like working around transparencies areas at all KUDOS for the perseverance! Ciao
  16. Nice going, Simon! I will add my worth of advise about W&N Galeria Matt: I thin it 50/50 with distilled water for airbrushing (never tried without thinning, though), and brush it on unthinned. Ciao
  17. Great to see you back at the bench, Massimo! Usual excellent detail job here! Happy New Year to you too! Ciao
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