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Tamiya 1/72 F4U-1D - Another American in the Royal NAVY


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Hello fellow britmodellers,

 

My second model on this forum. I wanted to build Tamiya ever since I came back to scale modeling and here is the realisation of my wish. Legendary F4U-1D in 72th scale and in the Royal NAVY livery. What can I say - Tamiya is really, REALLY good. Crisp details and  panel lines, two options of canopy, great assembly engineering  - all you need to build a proper Corsair. This time I've also used Eduard photo etched kit for the cockpit, decals from Xtradecals: Yanks with Roundels Part 3 and have made some conversions:

1. Cut edges of the wing

2. Air intakes on the sides of fuselage and outlet on the belly

3. Improved tailwheel frame 

4.Made a frame inside tailwheel bay (I didn't take a photo during the process and now it's barely visible on the completed model 🙂)

5. Drill the identification lights, fill it with clear varnish and then add clear colours 

 

Hope you’ll enjoy the result of my work,

 

Alex

 

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That's an excellent model. Very well done indeed 👏👏👏

11 hours ago, Keep_calm said:

(I didn't take a photo during the process and now it's barely visible on the completed model 🙂)

Standard for extra detailing 😂 at least you know it's there.

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15 hours ago, Keep_calm said:

Hello fellow britmodellers,

 

My second model on this forum. I wanted to build Tamiya ever since I came back to scale modeling and here is the realisation of my wish. Legendary F4U-1D in 72th scale and in the Royal NAVY livery. What can I say - Tamiya is really, REALLY good. Crisp details and  panel lines, two options of canopy, great assembly engineering  - all you need to build a proper Corsair. This time I've also used Eduard photo etched kit for the cockpit, decals from Xtradecals: Yanks with Roundels Part 3 and have made some conversions:

1. Cut edges of the wing

2. Air intakes on the sides of fuselage and outlet on the belly

3. Improved tailwheel frame 

4.Made a frame inside tailwheel bay (I didn't take a photo during the process and now it's barely visible on the completed model 🙂)

5. Drill the identification lights, fill it with clear varnish and then add clear colours 

 

Hope you’ll enjoy the result of my work,

 

Alex

 

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Welll done

 

Alain

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19 hours ago, modelmania said:

Lovely job, just wish I knew how on earth you can achieve the aerial wire arrangement in this scale as it looks amazing and bewildering in equal measure - please share!

Well, all you need is to turn on calm music, a lot of time, a lot of superglue and some hairs that your girlfriend spreads all over the place while brushing 😁.

But seriously, a good glue solves 90% of problems with wiring.

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