Thanks for any tips. Technically speaking just take your time, use a magnifying headset to get the details right and as you gain experience you can add details found in magazines, historical documents etcor just wing it. Earlier in the process I had laid on so thick a paint job, I had covered up rivets, panel lines, and it looked like (in places) like a layer cake. Well, I started out weathering the underside using Oil Paint Rendering and then didnt like how it was looking. Of course, there is the early war blue grey over white scheme. To participate you must either login or register for an account. Would it be better to get the equivalent MrPaint colors instead of MMP for this cause of "smooth edges" on these schemes? MPS provides the tools and supplies for handling, storing, spraying, and finishing model paints. AIR FORCE, unit markings, Read More, Parameters for authorizing operating a US Navy submarine reactor plant above practicable design limits is Read More, Additionally, 1.3 million of those five million flight hours were accomplished during combat. One of the useful aspects of the Vought F4U Corsair's long career is that it can be used to illustrate three decades of U.S. Navy color schemes and markings. I am wondering if this is actually the case. So build it as you see fit. Semi Gloss Sea Blue is actually a darker hue than Non Spec Sea Blue, and Navy BuAer specs call for most of the wing upper surfaces to be painted this colour (F4U, F6F, SB2C, TBM, etc.). You can see the resultsblotches/tonal differences, etc. As the reader will certainly remember, I stated earlier that I had visions of grandeur for weathering these aircraft. Scroll down for a similar sequence of photographs for #831) . Most of the 34 F4U-2s arrived at the Naval Aircraft Factory in the Earlier ANA Sea Gray over ANA Light Aircraft Gray paint scheme, and were repainted at the depot level. It would be like my own little Vought assembly line! Over that went some Tamiya XF-4 Yellow Green, which does a great impression of yellow zinc chromate. Top customer satisfaction 4,2/5. With the exception of two schemes, one arguably and the other definitely experimental, it lasted from the "yellow" wings of biplanes of the 1930s through to the change to gull gray and . ACADEMY 2124 - 1/48 VOUGHT F4U-4B CORSAIR. I've heard of folks using the Testors Enamel from Wal-Mart but they have a pretty limited selection of colors. For the F4U-1 Birdcage Corsairs, photos taken at the time show the cockpits being a very dark colour, most probably black. Next, I cut the masks on my Cricut machine on Oramask 810. Ive forgone it for the last several builds and have had great success. All-in-all, Im quite happy with how these builds turned out. So I have ordered a GWS Corsair Slope Glider, it seems that this plane comes without landing gear and it comes unsprayed too. Hi, I'm wanting to paint a GWS Corsair in the 3 color, Dark Blue, Light Blue/Gray, White scheme. Good wiring in the engine is analogous to great detail in the cockpit. I built it during the first few months of the Covid-19 Pandemic when working from home (still am as of August 20th, 2020). Did the Corsair ever come in overall blue like some Helldivers? In the only official photo that survived from the original publicity shoot, the first letters of Lucybelle were obscured by an individual standing on the Corsairs wing. I haven't seen many variations of the colour scheme. NorthWest Scale Modelers Show Version-2023: Come on Down! User friendly as Craig put it. Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to all Modelers Everywhere!! Theres really not much to say here in terms of technique, trials, or tribulations. Im going to give your method a try. Looking forward to seeing how yours comes together! And you need to let it off-gas for a good while before closing it up and ESPECIALLY before airbrushing it. In 1976, NBC launched a weekly action-adventure series called Baa, Baa, Black Sheep, loosely based on Greg Boyingtons autobiography of the same name. This has the effect of melting the chipping fluid, and giving the paint atop it no purchase, so that it flakes away. The Lucybelle decals were applied to the -1A kit and the Birdcage decals for Boyington's aircraft added to the correctly built Birdcage Corsair. US Forestry Service pilot Eugene Akers flew this virtually stock F4U-4 Corsair, and was a stunning site to see. Looking at past posts of Corsair builds, it looks like many modellers do paint the main gear wells light grey or even white. The pilot, Lt Mattholie, taken POW and the aircraft captured intact with no damage. Enjoy these model airplane photos of the F4U-1A Corsair flown by Marine Major Gregory "Pappy" Boyington. I knew even before I started building it that I wanted to give it a paint job that would match the awesomeness of the kit. Quick delivery of your "Decals Vought F4U-1 Corsair" decals for military aircraft at the price of 12.99 GBP with 1001hobbies, the Techmod specialist. Later on when I get into serious weathering I am not above using my fingers to smooth out oil-based stains or places I have too much weathering. By I am Active Duty Air Force and paint F16s as my career, and have done some custom heritage tails lately, and am attempting my hand at painting them in scale form. No one makes it but Testors Model Master RLM23 is close. 1) The USN/USMC started using the tri-color scheme in February of 1943, so the first F4U-1Ds would have been delivered in this scheme. It took a bit careful placement of the fingers and thumbs to line everything up, ensure everything was level, and not create any finger prints in the plastic. Butin the end that worked because it made the finish more realistic. It even forced the design of the landing geareverything was connected. (LogOut/ I found a list on cybermodeler for the 3-tone-scheme the Corsairs were painted but somehow it is very confusing with its differences in late and early ANA 601, 602 etc. In the last two shots showing off most of the model youll see me starting in on weatheringprimarily 25-50 part thinner, one part XF55 (Deck Tan). worth the wait. My normal process for painting is as follows: Alclad Black Primer and Microfiller, shading/marbling with white and different shades that are near the base color or that could add interest in terms of staining, etc. Tamiya Corsair F4U-1D 1/48 - Painting | The Inner Nerd The Inner Nerd Scale Modelling 80.5K subscribers 338K views 5 years ago Scale Model Series Tamiya 1/48 Scale Model Aircraft by The Inner. For example, many of those red borders were painted over before orders came down and others were never painted in the first place. Not saying its wrong but certainly different i always thought when here was 6 roundels it was at a time pre dating the addition of the bars ..(have seen many F4Us with six roundels only no bars) .as when the bars where 1st introduced.they had a red border then this was changed to dark bluewhich itself was dropped as by this time most aircraft where the darker blue anyway . great read. All other primed surfaces would have one or two coats of yellow zinc chromate. But these early Corsairs went into battle with the earlier six-point arrangement. The first step in the painting process is priming. This is an acrylic based varnish so it is a good base for further weathering if youre going to use oils and odorless thinners. See the Montex mask above? The few photos I have seen of VF(N)-101 aircraft display this very high degree of blending between colours. That is just epic! When I built the 1/48 Corsair I decanted the exact spray Tamiya instructed us to use and that wasinterestingto say the least. Careful of the overspray, and be sure to let the air out of the paint before you use it. Watch this space. Up against a lot of resistance to round-the-clock operations, having to write the rules as they went along, and stuck with a temperamental, first-generation Radar, VF(N)-101 managed to Plow the Road and make things easier for the up-and-coming F6F-5N squadrons to follow. For the steps that follow, the majority of painting was done with Hataka Orange Line paints thinned with their proprietary thinner at about a 50/50 ratio. I opted for more of an off-white to almost grey on the underside of the fuselage and inner half of the wings. It was taken while VMF-214 was on R&R, between VMF-214s first and 203215559383 Where the variation came in to play was the aft half of the fuselage. I also used the same spray technique above on the exhaust running down the fuselagebut with darker paint and less thinner. When I built the 1/48 Corsair I decanted the exact spray Tamiya instructed us to use and that . First up, in the standard 3-tone Navy scheme was the Insignia White. When building a model I tell myself today will be the day I do subtle weatheringand a few minutes later theres so much of Florys Dark Dirt Wash on it looks like my prized model was dropped in the mud and ruined. I tried a few different things between streaking some maintenance fluids/oil, gun staining, etc. As for this particular aircraft, theres photographic evidence of VMF-222 running six insignias into 1944 https://ww2db.com/image.php?image_id=22782. He has reported from Europe and flown Super Puma and Cougar helicopters with the Swiss Air Force. I learned so much building this modelabout modeling and myself. The Corsair went thru a protracted evolution of the tailwheel assembly in an effort to improve visibility over the nose, and reduce the tendency to swing on landing due to Gyroscopic Precession. The paint and finish work is impressive beyond your expectations. Much of this comes from aviation historian and author Dana Bell, who is a specialist in paint schemes, and has spent countless hours in the National Archives, conducting original research on the Corsair paint schemes. Big plus. I'm planing to build the F4U-1 as VF-17 and Tamiya says i have to use AS-8, AS-19 and AS-20 . Im never going to do that again. I had success w/chipping on earlier models and on the interior so with knowledge I was great at this I pushed forward and. The F4U-2 arrived at a time of transition within the Navy to what is generally referred to as the Graded 4 Tone Scheme, consisting of Non Specular Sea Blue, Intermediate Blue, Semi Gloss Sea Blue, and White. Vought F4U Corsair Tri-Color Scheme Color Profile and Paint Guide The appearance of U.S. Air Force, U.S. Army, U.S. Navy, U.S. Marine Corps, U.S. Coast Guard, Department of Defense, or NASA imagery or art does not constitute an endorsement nor is Cybermodeler Online affiliated with these organizations. Powered by Invision Community. Don't listen to the guy. Over the entirety of the model, I used highly thinned paint and did some light shading with an almost buff color to simulate sun fading.