AndrewCJ50 Posted May 29, 2020 Share Posted May 29, 2020 Dear Colleagues Although the Korean War was famous as the first jet conflict, the reality was that most sorties were by WWII vintage piston era aircraft. For the USN this meant a return to conflict for the Corsair. This is the Revell F4U-4 Corsair with Eduard PE and decals from Print scale for an aircraft flown by Lt Pullman of VF-193 onboard USS Princeton in August 1952. The decals are terrifyingly thin and fold into themselves as soon as you look at them. The paint is from the new AK range which I found very impressive. The engineering of the kit is a mixed bag, the cockpit isn't correct for the F4U-4 (Eduard to the rescue), the chin air intake needed to be drilled out and the wing layout is only appropriate for an early 6-gun 50 cal aircraft. Nevertheless, the panel lines are perfect for the scale. The deck handler admittedly belongs to a more modern era (Reedoak), but at least you get an impression of the size of the aircraft. The deck and backdrop are from Coastal Kits Hope you like it? Regards Andrew 48 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMCS Posted May 29, 2020 Share Posted May 29, 2020 Lovley Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Baldy Posted May 29, 2020 Share Posted May 29, 2020 Super build and presentation Andrew - I can give no more praise than it looks more like a 1/48 scale model than 1/72 - it really is very nice! Cheers Malcolm Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stevej60 Posted May 29, 2020 Share Posted May 29, 2020 Now that's a superb build Andrew beautifully presented too! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
noelh Posted May 29, 2020 Share Posted May 29, 2020 Looks great, I have an F4U-5N in progress. I hope it turns out that well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Acinonyx Jubatus Posted May 29, 2020 Share Posted May 29, 2020 Great build and nicely weathered, looks fabulous to me Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
binbrook87 Posted May 29, 2020 Share Posted May 29, 2020 Excellent build... and the deck diorama is just superb! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Abandoned Project Posted May 30, 2020 Share Posted May 30, 2020 Superb! Looked at this on my phone and thought that the first photo was of the real thing! Amazing all round. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phildagreek Posted May 30, 2020 Share Posted May 30, 2020 Nice! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IanC Posted May 30, 2020 Share Posted May 30, 2020 Excellent. Very convincing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark Joyce Posted May 30, 2020 Share Posted May 30, 2020 Another superbly built model and outstanding diorama, Andrew. I feel myself getting seasick! Cheers, Mark Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
72modeler Posted May 30, 2020 Share Posted May 30, 2020 (edited) Very nice dash four! That AK sea blue looks very good for the postwar ANA 623 formula. Sure doesn't look like a 1/72 kit. Mike Edited May 30, 2020 by 72modeler added text Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AndrewCJ50 Posted May 30, 2020 Author Share Posted May 30, 2020 Thank you colleagues for your kind comments. I perhaps now ought to confess I busted off the pitot tube and still haven't found it on the floor. I fear my wife's next vacuuming session will settle the matter! Also Revell forgot the ventral radio altimeter aerials which I guess i ought to scratch build (did anyone notice?) The AK paint was their dark sea blue which seems to me to be spot on! Regards Andrew Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris Bryant Posted May 30, 2020 Share Posted May 30, 2020 A lovely corsair! There's been a fair few on here recently, made me rush out and add a tamiya one to my stash! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tempestwulf Posted May 30, 2020 Share Posted May 30, 2020 One of the best parts of this kit is the ability to build a 6 gun wing, only modern -4 in scale with it. Great job Andrew, look forward to building mine. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Troy Smith Posted May 31, 2020 Share Posted May 31, 2020 On 29/05/2020 at 20:46, AndrewCJ50 said: the wing layout is only appropriate for an early 6-gun 50 cal aircraft. AFAIK, the 6 gun layout stayed the same on the F4U -4 from the -1, a small number were built as F4U-4B with 4 cannon wing, but not many. (I've been thinking and reading about Corsairs, 297 -4B out of a run of 2,357 -4 in total according to https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=AMCnCwAAQBAJ&pg=PA30&lpg=PA30&dq=f4u+corsair+production+numbers++by+variant&source=bl&ots=Zzqu-3-fm1&sig=ACfU3U3EdAL6DA66m_bcbk2vym2gD0SyKQ&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiHlvO57tzpAhWWaRUIHf4UCi4Q6AEwDnoECAwQAQ#v=onepage&q=f4u corsair production numbers by variant&f=false) This armament was standard on the -5, AU-1 and -7 though Really well built and carefully weathered model, combined with careful display and photography 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hairtrigger Posted May 31, 2020 Share Posted May 31, 2020 I was looking for the pics of the model, as I at first thought introductory pics... Outstanding... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luiz Posted May 31, 2020 Share Posted May 31, 2020 Great presentation!...beautiful job! Luiz. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
F-32 Posted June 1, 2020 Share Posted June 1, 2020 Wonderful work, that really looks the part Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mig88 Posted June 1, 2020 Share Posted June 1, 2020 Great job! Superb finish! Miguel Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
russ c Posted June 1, 2020 Share Posted June 1, 2020 Really nice Corsair there, great job Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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