mustang1989

Coming along fine. No aftermarket pre-cut masks for this puppy! I'm going to have to mask the windscreen on the Corsair I'm building from scratch and thank God it only has two sections of frame to do and not 2000 like a Stuka or Dauntless!!! lol

In my last update I had the fuselage halves together. What I didn't show you were the nasty gaps and poor fit between the halves....... After sanding, alot of the detail got whisked away like panel lines and rivets. I re-riveted the nose area using small drops of super glue applied with the end of a needle with the point cut off. This is my first ever attempt at something like this because usually a kit as crappy as this one goes in the trash can and I buy something like a Tamiya or Hasegawa offering thats alot better quality. I'm sticking with this now soley to improve modeling skills that I wont try on my really detailed builds. Then there's the stretched sprue to replace the panel lines that were sanded off. Installed they look something like this............ Don't go too hard on me as, again, this is my very first time trying something like this.

Youre more than welcome Danny! And thank you and all the other participants that are making this CB what it is! All of yaw are da bomb!!!

Looks like you're off to a great start Brayden.

This'll be a new spin on the build roster Danny. Lookin' forward to see you work your magic here. BTW I've got your pic in the intro post.

Hell build it in here! I'll get right to work on that photo pal! Looking forward to it Brayden.

Danny:Thanks for your comments on the cockpit. Your Batman and cycle IS AWESOME!!!! The shading detail is right on and the paint work is just as good. I'll tell you it is a blast having builds like this in here to shake things up from the norm. It's very entertaining and interesting at the same time. Thank you for being a part of this build again Dan! We still have 4 1/2 months left until the deadline so if youre feeling froggy grab another kit and join in. Let me know which pic you would like to use for the intro post. Brayden:Man you bet you can join! Let me know the manufacturer of the kit and I'll get you entered in on the build roster. Lookin' forward to your build.

Some more progress here. I got the seat belts a couple of days after I posted the painted cockpit flooring/ seat assy and installed them. Man it's just what that basic Revell interior (or should I say detailed interior compared to some I've seen out of Revell! lol) needed to "wake" it up. The pic is a little green due to the camera settings which I am STILL learning. Here's a partial shot of the cockpit completed before installing it into the fuselage. In we go with the cockpit (this is usually my least favorite part of any aircraft build as all the cockpit detail is sealed up in the fuselage halves but here it aint no biggie-there's just not that much detail) into the fuselage.......... and now sealed up.............with alot of seam removal work to do now.

Amen on the unorthodox! Almost all of the German engines were inverted. I don't get it either! lol

That thing is rich in detail and is gonna eat up any weathering you can stand to apply onto it. Nice!

I think this thing had an Argus V-8 engine in it. Cool subject and will be watching!

Man you've got that right Wayne! I've overcome ALOT of obstacles with the help of folks on the forums. This one here is one of the best I've seen for being helpful too. Every forum has a jack wagon or two in it but this one seems like its got fewer of those kinds of people.

Folks..........there just aint a whole lot to work with in the interior/cockpit of this Corsair. It's got a floor/ seat assy, a bulkhead, a control stick and an instrument panel ( which is fairly well, although inaccurate, for an old Revell kit like this). Normally I would spend "boo-coo" money here but 1) I'm on a time line with this build, 2) I'm on a $40.00 budget (to include the price of the kit) and 3) I'm not going to drop a whole lot of money into a Revell Corsair. This kit was first released in 1963 and is a pretty straight forward build like alot of the Revell kits in its day, but suffers from an overwhelming number of inaccuracies. A fairly quick build is what I'm after so this fits right into what I wanted. I shot the floor/ seat and the bulkhead with "rattle can " Olive Drab paint as a dark base coat. I'll be airbrushing a thin coat of Zinc Chromate Green on top of that to give the Chromate a slightly darker color and to pre-shade a little. The starting pic: The floor/ seat assy after painting the Zinc Chromate on, detailing and weathering: The details here aren't correct but I got the colors for them from reference photos. It's somewhat "within the limits of accuracy" The seat belts that I ordered should be here today so I hope to liven the "action" up here a liltle bit. As mentioned earlier , the IP is so-so appointed with detail so I took full advantage of it. The instructions call for a decal............what----ever! I brought out the dials with white lead pencil and the edges of the gauges with a silver lead pencil. I'll be putting a drop of future in the gauges to give them the "glass sheen" look.

That...............is a good idea!

I'll do my best with this thing but I'll tell you this Ray. Slate some display space and get the recently released 1/32nd scale Tamiya Corsair. It's da friggin' bomb! Check out the review: http://modelkitsreview.com/tamiyas-new-1-32-f4u-1-corsair/ Danny thats an excellent idea using sandpaper as a base for asphalt. Right at the moment I can't think of anything that I would use besides what you are doing. I'll toss this one around in my head for a bit..............

Thanks Danny!

Looking forward to seeing the results of your vision Miles.

Looking forward to it. I'll get you down in the intro post bud.

Come on with it Miles! It would be great to have something like that in here!

Not the best kit for accurate representation of this bird but it's going to be a low budget build on this one. I'm actually building this for a friend of mine for Christmas and will do my best to do this kit some justice. I'll only be adding a set of PE seat belts and canopy/wheel masks for this one.

Sounds good to me Wayne!! Lead the way....

'preciate it Wayne. Means alot coming from an armor ace builder!!!

Thanks Ray! For those interested in the 1/48 scale offering of this bike , you have two kits in which to choose from: This one that I built here: that has everything on two sprues: and the better one that JUST came out from Tamiya: with everything on ONE sprue:

Thanks Joe and Bob!

Thanks Wayne!!! You're right about the reference photo. I included it in the All The Rest section.