crown r n7

Beautiful work on the Corsair 

 

Your friend, Toshi

Beautiful work on the Corsair 

fotofrank

Well, Toshi and Ezra, this is great stuff! It makes me happy to see what the two of you have accomplished. Well done, both of you.

 

Your friend, Toshi

Well, Toshi and Ezra, this is great stuff! It makes me happy to see what the two of you have accomplished. Well done, both of you.

Here is where the three Corsairs rest.  Pretty cool!

Your friend, Toshi and Ezra

To my fellow forum members,

          It took a good two months in completing both Corsairs.  I really enjoyed building both F4U’s especially with Ezra.  The Corsair Ezra built is painted with Vellojo M-485 Blue Gray 71.109 Faded P.R.U. Blue.  It’s a color he chose and with my help, AB and carefully built his Corsair. I let him use my Iwata NEO.  About a two weeks ago, while we were finishing up his build, he decided to play with his Corsair of which I felt was fine.  Then he brought back without damage (Wow) then slammed the model on the bench of which both main Landing gears broke.

What can you do except laugh.  We both laughed and started the process of looking for the landing gear.  After a while, I gave up.  Ezra was determined in finding his landing gears.  Well guess what, he found one and yelled ”Papa Papa” I found it.  We both went back into the den to look for the other gear to no avail.  I rigged the landing gear, and did the antenna with EZ Line.  Since I won’t see him till Sunday, I decided to finish up this build.

As for my Corsair, I purchased a Vallejo US Navy & USMC Colors 1940-1945 Art 71157 kit from Hobby Lobby.  I really enjoy painting with Vallejo Model Air.  I used 71.295 USN Sea Blue and had a very difficult time with the decals.  Even spraying with Testors Decal Bonder, some issues occurred but I was able to overcome the issues.  The third Corsair that you see was built about a year ago.  I did that Corsair in “Pappy Boyingtons” Lulubelle.  

I want to thank Tim Pressnell for this gift given to me and Ezra, but guess what.  We still have a Sabre from him to build.  That will be our next WIP.

Your friend, Toshi and Ezra

UKguyInUSA

Great work as always, Toshi.

 

Your Friend, Toshi and Ezra

Great work as always, Toshi.

As you can see, the two Corsairs went in a completely different aspect.  The Corsair Ezra AB is just a simple light blue with standard Marines marking.  

Possibly based on one of the tropical islands, Esperito Santos.  Trying daily pushing the Japanese further toward Japan.

The other Corsair depicts F4U-1D VF-84 Aircraft Carrier USS Bunker Hill (CV-17) Feb.. 1945

To my fellow forum members,

          I have fixed the landing gear that Ezra destroyed.  Lol!  I used the rockets that come with the kit and stretch the rockets.  It worked out very well.

We’re in the process of closing up this build.  Ezra will be going to swim school and going home, so we will have to wait until he returns on Sunday.  

Your friend, Toshi and Ezra

To my fellow forum members,

          Thank you so very much in supporting our Corsair build.  Between models, chocolate candy Ezra loves Kit Kat, juice and milk.  He’s a very smart boy.  He tries to mimick everything I do.  Oh, he’s also potty training, and not doing too bad at all, matter of fact, Mrs. Toshi and I, gives him stickers everytime he goes potty.  

This keeps him more than busy.  Of which I think works great in the winter.  Then in spring and summer, we end up swimming at the pool and driving his Paw Patrol around the complex.

Your friend, Toshi and Ezra!

fotofrank

Good to see you back, Toshi. Ezra's modeling skills are right up there. You're teaching him right. That Testors Corsair kit is a terrific build. Back in the day when Testors was Hawk, I built that kit from the XF4U-1 all the way to the AU-1.

 

Your friend,

Toshi

jeaton01

Much better for chaps like Ezra to build with all the prickley bits left off.  Less danger of breakage and no small parts to swallow.  Find him an old Testor's F2H Banshee, he'll love it.

 

Your friend,

Toshi

Good to see you back, Toshi. Ezra's modeling skills are right up there. You're teaching him right. That Testors Corsair kit is a terrific build. Back in the day when Testors was Hawk, I built that kit from the XF4U-1 all the way to the AU-1.

Much better for chaps like Ezra to build with all the prickley bits left off.  Less danger of breakage and no small parts to swallow.  Find him an old Testor's F2H Banshee, he'll love it.

Gamera

Oh it's sad to see Ezra break the landing gear but as long as he's having fun no big deal!!! 

 

It's good to have you guys back with us! 

 

Your Friend, Toshi

Oh it's sad to see Ezra break the landing gear but as long as he's having fun no big deal!!! 

It's good to have you guys back with us! 

This is my first model kit made some three years ago.  I received this from MENTIS, a institue that helps people with TBI Traumatic Brain Injury.  I got this as a gift and on it went.

Here is my grandson Ezra with his Corsair.  Yes, he picked that color as well. This Corsair is his first casualty.  I tried and tried in vain to no avail.  I had a good feeling about what was going to happen.  

Yes, he plainly broke the landing gear.  It’s going to be shown in flight or I’ll rig up some stretched spruce.  We can only see!  Lol!

Your friend, Toshi

Greg

Great to see you working with Ezra and letting us follow along.

We all wish you all the best, Toshi. Here's to you.

 

littletimmy

You and Ezra are moving right along on those !

Did you have to Putty the seam's much ?  Hope the seam's wern't too bad.

look's like Ezra can use an airbrush better than I can !

 

We are enjoying the build, and there were minimal seams.  Of which I took care of.  No he can’t use the AB without assistance, you’ll have a disaster!  Lol.  Thank you littletimmy for everything.

Your friend, Toshi

 

 

Great to see you working with Ezra and letting us follow along.

We all wish you all the best, Toshi. Here's to you.

You and Ezra are moving right along on those !

Did you have to Putty the seam's much ?  Hope the seam's wern't too bad.

look's like Ezra can use an airbrush better than I can !

ChrisJH666

Good to see you back Toshi. Hope this year is a far better one for you and Mrs Toshi

 

Good to see you back Toshi. Hope this year is a far better one for you and Mrs Toshi

Next up, decals.