franco1964 Posted May 9, 2020 Share Posted May 9, 2020 My dear Friends, this is my last lockdown work! It seems that I have to remain all this month closed at home, so my preferred hobby is the only thing I can do. This time I have just finished a Tamiya 1/48 scale F4U 1 Birdcage Corsair flown by the ace 2nd Lt. James N. Cupp during the Pacific Conflict. Previously this airplane was flown by 2nd Lt. Kenneth Walsh, another ace of this conflict, and was White 13, but was quickly repainted and assigned to Cupp as White 7. I tried to make it this Corsair really used, faded and battered as they were during the Pacific War and I tried some new, for me, scratching solutions. It partially worked, as I am moderately happy with the final result. Anyway this is the result: IMG_20200509_172634 by Franco Segato, su Flickr IMG_20200509_172449 by Franco Segato, su Flickr IMG_20200509_172511 by Franco Segato, su Flickr IMG_20200509_172525 by Franco Segato, su Flickr IMG_20200509_172704 by Franco Segato, su Flickr IMG_20200509_172758 by Franco Segato, su Flickr IMG_20200509_172844 by Franco Segato, su Flickr Thank you, and any suggestions are always welcomed. 27 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alpha Delta 210 Posted May 9, 2020 Share Posted May 9, 2020 My goodness, that is an amazing finish. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
28ZComeback Posted May 9, 2020 Share Posted May 9, 2020 Perfect Pacific weathering! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
F-32 Posted May 9, 2020 Share Posted May 9, 2020 Beautiful work 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chris148 Posted May 9, 2020 Share Posted May 9, 2020 Great finish,weathering spot on 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMCS Posted May 9, 2020 Share Posted May 9, 2020 Superb 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crane Posted May 10, 2020 Share Posted May 10, 2020 Excellent work and thanks for posting pictures. I am in the middle of one and finding it hard to keep the details on the front fuselage. Did you have to fill in the step hole in the port wing flap?? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corsairfoxfouruncle Posted May 10, 2020 Share Posted May 10, 2020 Niiice very good looking Bent-wing Birdcage ! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gary Brantley Posted May 10, 2020 Share Posted May 10, 2020 Beautiful work Franco! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
franco1964 Posted May 10, 2020 Author Share Posted May 10, 2020 6 hours ago, Crane said: Excellent work and thanks for posting pictures. I am in the middle of one and finding it hard to keep the details on the front fuselage. Did you have to fill in the step hole in the port wing flap?? Yes, if you want to reproduce an F4U 1. The step hole was introduced from the F4U 1d version, at least is what I read in numerous documentation about this nice airplane. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ForestFan Posted May 10, 2020 Share Posted May 10, 2020 Looks great, the weathering looks very convincing 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
franco1964 Posted May 11, 2020 Author Share Posted May 11, 2020 Thanks to everybody for your encouraging comments. I found two mistake on this model after a deep search with my dynamic air model friends. So I tried to adjust these two mistakes. The first one was a wrong position of the tail trim that have to be placed in pull-up position as the the elevators down: IMG_20200511_114315_copy_1280x960 and the second was that some scratches were wrongly made on a canvas part over the right wing: IMG_20200511_114238_copy_1280x960 Hope this post will help others to make a better and realistic model. See you soon. Franco Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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