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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

I gave up attempting to model this when I saw the last shot, not knowing what colours and where to put them. Just to put my mind at ease, right roundel repainted with filter colour?

Very nice. I wasn't aware of this kit

Beautiful. Building one as I type

Thanks guys

Thank you Gentlemen. I wish I had found the photo above before painting as it shows the colour lines to be more wavy

Really nice

I did this one a few years ago and can't even remember the colours or brands I used, The kit is classic older Hobbycraft, mud o' plenty. During research I found many different colour call-outs, from four colours to six. Decals came from Superscale 48-50. This is my take on it, right or wrong as these were official colours at the time.

Late here. Like Troy, I use the 1ml syringe and at the moment looking for ANA 606 Tamiya mixes. I see with Casey's @Casey I need 22 drops of XF17. Not gonna work with a syringe but I might be interested in that pipettor thing. Something I am curious about and I may have missed it here, but how much will the below formula cover? I work in 1:48 and currently building an F4U-1A and the 606 will only be used on the upper wing outside of the fold and the vertical stabilizers. Any help would be great. Thanks in advance ANA606 | Semi-Gloss Sea Blue 606 | GU 12.8 XF-7 Flat Red: 1 part XF-8 Flat Blue: 2 parts XF-17 Sea Blue: 22 parts XF-2 Flat White: 14 parts

Beauty

Beauty

Thank you