April Group Build--F4U Corsair

[draken35]

Beautiful Scott, and so "exotic" in British colors...

[Second Air Force]

Thank you! I really enjoyed the reconstruction of this old model.

The amazing part of those markings was that I could use the roundels and fin flash from the original Otaki sheet that is over thirty years old! While researching 1850 Squadron I realized that I could build at least three different variations of markings for their Corsair IVs--the normal roundels, small Pacific blue/white roundels, or the blue and white with the U.S. style bars on them. All of these styles were used with the same dark sea blue scheme.

[Sall]

Tremendous job! I really like your Corsair!It has untypical camouflage scheme!Once again,great job!

[Letipapa]

Scott, Srecko... beautiful, guys it is an honor to look at your work. Amazing! Thank you.

[No.1]

Thanks man

[Second Air Force]

Yes, Letipapa, thank you. It's great fun to again "exercise" my modeling abilities and nice to rebuild some of my old kits.

[Second Air Force]

Time to bring back an old thread as I found my last two previously built 1/48 Corsairs. I'll eventually put these through a restoration process...

First up is a Hasegawa? F4U-4/AU-1 that is all there but needs much reworking. The paint job is simply embarrassing now but I thought I did a good job way back when.

April Group Build--F4U Corsair

And this poor thing was once an Otaki F4U-1 that I butchered into a Reno Unlimited. The real Super Corsair is no longer with us and this one won't be either. I found enough pieces, including the original wing tips, to restore this one to a more "normal" configuration. I'm lacking some cowling parts but that shouldn't prove to be a big drawback.

April Group Build--F4U Corsair

[Sall]

Yeees... Go forward Scott.

[No.1]

This is nice way to wake up this topic

[draken35]

Once again, interresting things to come!!!

[Second Air Force]

Once more to the Corsair Build. 

The old BUD LIGHT  Super Corsair air racer is finally getting a restoration to the military configuration. This will be somewhat of a difficult "de-conversion" as my original modifications were, shall I say, less than contest-worthy.

April Group Build--F4U Corsair

An explanation of what I did in the first build is in order. This model roughly represented an F4U-1 that was resurrected from storage in Chino, California. The R-2800 was replaced with a R-4360. In this configuration the airplane was roughly the same as an F2G-1 with other racing modifications such as severely clipped wings and lower canopy.

I started out with an Otaki F4U-1D and basically destroyed it. The main reason I decided to try a restoration was that I found the wingtips in a spares box. I hope y'all enjoy watching me try to save this one--it might get ugly!

[No.1]

Uuuuhhhh....

[Second Air Force]

I have a plan--and most of the parts. It will be fun in an aggravating way!

[Sall]

This will be interesting.

[draken35]

Lots of work as I can see...