F4U-1A Corsair - Ira Cassius Kepford (Tamiya 1/48)

[Yankar]

Hello ppl!!! This is my first WIP here and I am sure that with your help the final result will be much better than my precious builds. This is going to be my 4th model, so as you can understand I am pretty new to plastic modelism and your comments would help me a lot to improve my skills as well as learn new techniques.

I choose the F4U-1A Tamiya kit in 1/48 scale (kit ref: 61070)

I am going to use a U.S. seatbelt set by eduard and a decal set by Techmodel.

My intention is to build the Ira's Kepford plane belonged to the Vf-17 squadron known as "Jolly Roggers".

Thus I am going for a 3 colors camo using basically Gunze and Tamiya colors.

The project started with the building of the cockpit. I sprayed the cockpit within H58 interior green while I used white ensign night for control panels and some details. The rest of the instruments, buttons and lamps are painted using citadel acrylics. For the panel instruments I placed the decal provided by tamiya.

The cockpit is not finished yet, please have a look at the current stage:

Please fill free to provide me with your valuable views and comments on my work. Your feedback will be highly appritiacated.

Ps. I hope I used the proper technical terms in English. Please excuse and correct me if not

[Canuck63]

Welcome aboard Yankar!
Sweet work so far but if I were you I'd hit the decal on the dashboard with some setting solution!
Cheers
Manu

[jimmydel]

Looking really good. The Tamiya Corsairs in 1/48 are really nice kits. I built a few in my 1/48 days. It's interesting to compare it with the 1/32 version I'm building now. I'll be following along

[Yankar]

Thanks for your comments guys.

Manu already did several times. The picture is before that currently the deshboard looks much better.

[Yankar]

Hello guys!!!!

The cockpit of my corsair is ready for asembly.

I added some detailes and washed all parts. I also added the eduard seatbelt set.

There is some pictures of the parts. I hope later on today I will post the cockpit assembled.

Your comments on my work will be valuable as always!!!

[Yankar]

Cockpit Assembled:

I did also some work on the engine. I havent tried wiring an engine yet and i didnt do so either here. I hope i will do so on my next project:

Thanks for waching!!!