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Well done

Wow. Well done. Another aircraft I never knew existed until today

Thanks all. Unfortunately I couldn't find a good shot of the top so my thought was that they wouldn't have added the non specular sea blue until the painted it on the rest of the airframe.

Thank you

Love it

And thank you

Awesome

This is one of Tamiya's finest kits in my opinion, nary a problem during the build.Looking for something different to do to a corsair, I stumbled upon the "colourized" photo shown. I can't vouch for the accuracy but it started my search and I found a whack of photos of Corsairs of various models all over the web. This is not a model of one particular aircraft but several that had little peculiarities. The black and white photo was my muse to start as it shows some different shades of YZC. To do these differences I added Grey to Tamiya XF-4 Yellow Green. The Intermediate Blue was actually sprayed twice as I didn't like the first mix. The second attempt was Tamiya XF-18 Medium Blue and XF-2 Flat White, 3:1. Semi-Gloss Sea Blue was a Tamiya mix of XF-17 Sea Blue, XF-8 Flat Blue and XF-53 Neutral Grey 6:6:1. This was then given a Satin coat. The Non-Specular Sea Blue was XF-17 Sea Blue. To continue with the Frankenstein theme I found a photo of a long line of Corsairs, all having the flaps painted in YZC save one. The oddity was that the last aircraft had the inner flaps painted Semi-Gloss Sea Blue. Not sure why this was, maybe it was the end of the shift on a Friday or a hung-over Monday thing. I figured that maybe if they made that mistake once they could have installed an oddball set. Some photos showed the outer gear doors painted white so I went with it. Tamiya has you shave off the forward antenna mast. In the Detail & Scale book it says antennas varied depending on the radio equipment used. I found four and quit looking. The wire was Uschi Van Der Rosten super fine rigging thread. Only two decals were used. I wasn't going to do any weathering, this being a new aircraft and all but if you look closely at the black and white photo you can see dirty panel lines around the wing area. To acheive this I mixed Tamiya Panel Liner Brown and Light grey to get a pale Brown. A highly recommended kit and I hope you like this

OSHA would have puppies if this happened today

This......is awesome!!!!

Well done

Love that P-47 Kevin and the woodwork is very impressive

Beautiful. Love the markings

Small azure blue dot behind the fin flash on AN⦾L