1/48 Tamiya F4U-1A Corsair heavily chipped

[Fredrikc]

Hi! Here's another one of my builds - a ww2 corsair, heavily used with exposure to sun, sand and salty water. 

 

 

Edited October 22, 2019 by Fredrikc

[phildagreek]

Nice, heavily used indeed.

[noelh]

Excellent but judging by the couple of photos of the original 122. Arguably you've been restrained in your weathering. 😉😀

Edited October 22, 2019 by noelh

[Fredrikc]

17 minutes ago, noelh said:

Excellent but judging by the couple of photos of the original 122. Arguably you've been restrained in your weathering. 😉😀

I would love to see some photos of the original 112. I Googled but didt find anything - just models 😀. Do you have a link to any photos of the oroginal bird? 

[noelh]

This I only came across today. Obviously later in life with a couple of other numbers bizarrely. 

 

Note how the back of the prop blade is worn back to bare metal. 

 

This is the well known shot that was used on the Tamiya box art:

Edited October 22, 2019 by noelh

[RMCS]

Lovley 

[Corsairfoxfouruncle]

Wonderful corsair.  ... Not to discourage you or be negative. If it were my build I wouldn't have chipped the paint over the Fabric panels myself. I think fading them would've been better. But again wonderful build.