AREA 88 : "Shin Kazama" (F4U-1 Corsair)
The Box...
A bag of sprues
Nice clean sprues
Cut and dry fit
Cut out and scratch built the exhaust port
Drilled some exhaust pipes
Some small parts painted
Exhaust ports installed
$#%?! 1/72 photo etched parts!
Drilled out vents, ready for PE
Should've dry fit the mesh
Cockpit coming along
Instrument panel too
Photo etched all attached or painted
Cockpit painted and assembled
Cockpit side views
Cockpit glued into half the fuselage and dry fitted to cure
Cockpit installed and waiting for wash
Coat of Future and ready for a wash
Slight do-over on the wheel wells
Scratch built better wheel wells
Scratchbuilt vent flaps
Improved exhaust, vents and wheel wells
Putty applied to the seams
Sanding complete... will check for mistakes after primer is applied
Wing joints look good. Added a bit of copper wire to the tail.
More sanding, and I drilled out a landing light... mainly because John did.
Engine details added
Puttied, sanded and primed.
Good enough is good enough. 🙂
Had to do two rounds, but no more seams now.
Leading wing edge looks good to go.
A little pre-shading... let's see if this'll work.
Painted the engine and added a few details along the way... last stop, some itty bitty copper wire...
Engine finished... except for a accent wash.
The picture is a bit dark, but the wash worked well and added depth to the details.
Would you believe the cowl didn't fit!? I had to pull off all the little caps, trim them and glue them back on. I was freaked that I was going to lose a piece, but I managed to get back on track and everything fits now.
Undercarriage given several coats of white paint. I hate painting with white... but I think I survived.
I'm trying to decide if I need a few more coats of white or not.... hmmm...
First coat of blue paint on... but the tape marks are highly visible. I'll need to fix that somehow.
Ok, a coat of grey and another coat of blue. It looks better, but that cowling looks like way too much white. Maybe just the prop should be white... with blue trim?
I do like the two-tone canopy though. I think I'll keep that.
It seems no matter how carefully I tape... there's always some tiny masking errors. Grrr...
Needs more grey. I'm note sûre I've got this "pre-shading" business mastered yet.
Starting to come together. Cowl and landing gear glued on... other small bits waiting for more paint.
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17 May 2024, 23:46 -
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This build is part of my Area 88 project "Shin Kazama". The build features Shin's classic Vaught F-8E "Crusader" re-imagined as a Vaught F4U-1 "Corsair".
