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Soccer War...1/48 Goodyear FG-1D Corsario Fuerza Aerea Salvadorena vs. Vought F4U-5N Corsario Fuerza Aerea Hondurena


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So, here are the last two refreshed latinas from 2016.

FAS Corsair: Tamiya kit with Aztec decals, Tamiya and Gunze paints, EZ Line for brake lines, plastic rod for antenna. According to fellow Hyperscaler/Britmodeller Marco, the wheel wells and landing gear were also painted in camo. Got that info too late so my dad kept them the way they were.
The model shows one of the five El Salvadorian Corsairs that took part in the 100 Hours War or Soccer War between El Salvador and Honduras from 14th to 18th July 1969, the last time Corsairs went into battle.
 
FAH Corsair: Hasegawa kit with Aztec decals, seatbelts added, scratchbuild parts for the armament switches on top of the instrument board, brake lines and antenna wire with EZ Line. The kit includes a 1000lb bomb but the biggest ones the FAH had were 500lb bombs. This one, together with the smaller clamps were taken from a Hasegawa P-51 kit. The "T" antenna on the rear belly was taken from Hasegawa´s ancient F4U-4 kit.
Painted with Gunze H54 Navy Blue. The flags were painted too, only the stars are decals.
The model shows the a/c of Major Fernando Soto Henriquez who became an ace in the war by shooting down two FAS Corsairs and one FAS Mustang on July 19th 1969. Most probably the plane didn´t have the noseart anymore when the war started, but it looks good and I´ve never seen FAH609 done with it so we decided to apply it.

 

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Interesting comparison. Both camos are not among the most attractive for the Corsair but unusual anyway. Vought wouldn't have expected that their fighters would be pitched against each other one day.

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13 hours ago, Toryu said:

Both camos are not among the most attractive for the Corsair

Really?

 

Great builds, Reini, of interesting and attractive colour schemes. The Soccer War produced some great looking aircraft markings.

 

Martin

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On 2/7/2020 at 6:24 PM, neil5208 said:

outstanding

 

On 2/7/2020 at 6:31 PM, Jabo31 said:

Respect Sir, unusal shemes on great birds. Top! Udo.

 

On 2/7/2020 at 7:53 PM, Spitfire31 said:

Superb and very cool looking Corsairs!

 

Never hold a finished model with your bare fingers, though! Eventually the fingerprints will be etched into your precious finish. Always wear gloves!

 

Kind regards,

 

Joachim

Don´t worry, I only touch the models for a second or so. Never had any problems of leaving fingerprints, Gunze and Tamiya clear coats never reacted so far.

 

On 2/7/2020 at 10:19 PM, Tony Oliver said:

Those are great! 

 

On 2/7/2020 at 11:18 PM, russ c said:

Superb pair of Hogs there Reini and Franz, really nice work and photo`s too

 

On 2/8/2020 at 12:23 AM, Luiz said:

Just awesome!

 

Luiz.

 

23 hours ago, RidgeRunner said:

Really?

 

Great builds, Reini, of interesting and attractive colour schemes. The Soccer War produced some great looking aircraft markings.

 

Martin

 

22 hours ago, Toryu said:

But both schemes are excellently executed, no doubt there!

 

22 hours ago, Habu12 said:

Gorgeous. Both of them 

 

21 hours ago, Mig88 said:

A great job! Lovely, both of them!

 

Miguel

 

20 hours ago, Roberto said:

A nice couple, bravo.

 

18 hours ago, luis pacheco said:

Beautiful !

 

I have Tamiya´s Mustang to build some day with the tip tanks.  

Yes, a FAS Cavalier Mustang would be interesting...gotta look of there´s a conversion. AFAIK these Mustangs had a taller tail?

 

18 hours ago, harvy5 said:

Nice!!! I love these Bananas conflicts. 

 

15 hours ago, exdraken said:

Very nice, and rarely seen!-

 

14 hours ago, Cellarfrog said:

These are awesome. I really like them. Great job 

 

 

Thanks a lot for your kind words, much appreciated!!

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