mustang1989

The wheel/ tire assys on this thing sucked so I robbed a kit boxing set from an Eduard Hellcat that I had (Corsairs and Hellcats shared the same wheel/ tire assys). Just an added detail step. Eduard's wheels and tires are 4 pieces but I felt they had an edge over the Revellogram parts. For one, the Eduard part doesn't look like an over inflated inner tube and secondly the wheel has cut outs for the spokes. Eduard on the left, Revellogram on the right.

Well we started decaling here. Man these decals went on really well and sucked right down to the detail. and all was going well until.....................I sat back and was looking at the work. Good grief! Where do the shortcomings end with this kit? In the end its my own fault for not paying attention. Check the instruction sheet out for decal placement. See anything wrong?????? The aircraft ID numeral on the side of the fuselage is 24 WE. The wing is 14 MR. There are decals for two different aircraft on the sheet. The instructions got it wrong. The wing should be displaying 24 WE. I tried to strip the decal off but it was too well adhered down to the wing. So I cringed and painted over it. and applied the correct decal directly over it............ Looks like we're back in business! And the overhead current status pic:

Youre right blunc. I shouldn't have posted here. I know better.

Giver 'er a shot Jason. I've got some room to extend the CB a little.

Amazing attention to detail and the weathering is very convincing. Wow!

Don't know what happened with that last post. Thanks Ray

Thanks Ray

And here goes the first coats of blue. Looks like the pre-shading was totally unnecessary on this paint job. and a little further along............... Well one things for sure, she's blue!

You know, that turned out good and I like the spinning prop. I saw a variation of this about a month ago from a friend of mine on another forum that adds a tweak to what you did here. The idea here is not to take away from your build but to see another spin on the rotating prop display.

There ya go. I'm feelin my age now..................

This outta look good with some decals, a wash and a flat coat over it. Coming along nicely.

Jumping into the pre-shading here. I'm not going to prime this thing because of all the fabricated riveting and panel lines that I've done. I want all the raised detail that I can stand here.

Great to see you with this one Riley! Lookin' forward to the good progress man. On a sidenote: How old are those salt and pepper shakers? I remember those things from when I was a kid some 30 years ago!!

Well here's the next step. How to mount this friggin wing with little or no support aside from the hingepoint. First off I needed something strong .... This should do: Then cut to size: Then I got my good ol' buddy JB to adhere these into the wing: and then mounted the wing. Walah!! This wing will be permanently displayed down and the port wing will be permanently folded up.

Well here's where its at before we get started any further: and this is the nasty "overbite" and misfit at the wing joints for the starboard wing which will be displayed in the "locked" position. What a disaster........... Here's after filing away and sanding just so the joints would butt up flush. I have a "buckle" on the top and bottom sides of the wing. Jeez!! Where does it end? So I stuck an old paint brush between the upper and lower halves to spread the two pieces and dunked the whole assy in boiling water for 10 seconds: and now we have a fitting wing joint all the way. Revell.............................good grief!!!!

Danny: Hang in there Danny. I can certainly understand about the upsides and downsides of model companies. I can extend alot of empathy towards you for some of the blues you have been facing. On one hand it sounds like you have your work cut out for you but on the other hand you seem to be approaching it from a "can do" perspective. I'm very confident you'll get through this and I look forward to the progress. Pete J: It's great to see you in here. Grab a kit and join in man.

Man do I ever feel your pain there Danny!! That's where I'm at with this Corsair! Had I known I was going to have to do all this stuff (and there's alot more!) to make a halfway presentable kit out of this I would have bought a Tamiya Corsair and saved myself alot of trouble. At this point I do have too much time invested and now I'm in it for the challenge of seeing this thing through. Hang in there Danny!

Man Tony! That's as good a story as the build looks! She's a beauty!

Like I was sayin........... The wings on this old Revell kit were designed to fold up and down. The problem with this is it has some nasty hinge points and wing retainers to hold the wings in either the up or down positions as well as gaps and the like. Here's what I'm talking about: Here's the parts to fix it: and here's the tab trimmed up, squared off and fit into place: Still a lot more work to do...........................

Thanks Ray and Wayne! Oh the fun aint over yet. As a matter of fact its just getting started. Lookin for pics soon Wayne. This outta be good!

Guys the age of this kit is showing. The air intakes at the wing root are a terrible fit: So I broke out the Tamiya white putty and went to work. LOTS of puttying and sanding here to get it whipped into shape: and then I went to work on the gun barrels. What the heck are these? Toilet paper guns???? So I hacked 'em off: Cut some pieces of a syringe for gun barrels: Drilled out the gun barrel housings protruding from the wing to create a recessed area and then drilled out the small holes so that the syringe sections could fit so that it looks something like this: So far it's not going too awful bad. The wings are another story................................. :

What kind of camera are you using Miles? And yes that Cummins looks like it got alot of attention from what I can see.

That's gotta be my favorite tank of all time Wayne! Looking forward to the paint and weather magic!

MIles:Now that's what I wanted to see. This creation in its rawest form. Looking forward to seeing where you go from here. Danny:Good start and the pic turned out fine I see. It will be interesting and cool to watch what you do in regards to a B-2 stealth bomber outfit here. Keep it coming. Everybody:Well this thing hasn't kicked my tail yet. LOTS of work to make this thing into a model I'll tell you! I managed to get the lower center wing secion glued in after fighting yet more fit, alignment and seam issues. I also trimmed an ounce of flash off of the upper wing assys and primed them and the lower center wing section in black (I wasn't at that stage yet when I took the pic below but the lower got painted black too) before applying a THIN coat of zinc chromate green to simulate a shadowed effect. and after a buttload of sanding, cutting and alignment I finally got the upper wing sections glued in. Still alot of work to do here as Revell made the upper and lower section into two more pieces than they needed to. I've got to make the air intakes that go int those gaping holes look like part of the wing with no seam line. Jeez!!!!!!

Those tracks really bring this the whole build out. I'm watching this one...........