Hello all.  I got some work done on the Corsair.  I finished up the office, and the engine, and then sealed up the fuselage.  I think I finished up the seam work on it too.  I was test fitting the wings together, and that is going to require some filling.  The stock engine was pretty bland, but some wiring, and a wash and I think it looks pretty decent.  If I build another one of these, I will definetely go with some aftermarket stuff.  There really isn't that much more detail than the old Monogram -4.  The fit is better though.

Glad to be making progress though!

Cheers,

Greg

These are my WIP pics of the DML M26A1 Pershing and GAZ67 'Jeep' I will use along side of road destroyed. Long way to go..

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Here are some pics of my 120mm USMC figure. I had him started for quite some time and decided to resurrect him for this build. I still need to add the details to base, add existing base to a larger one, and apply the 'wet' look to ground and mud.

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Hi Travis ,

I really like your work on the cockpit tub

As with the H-19 , I airbrushed the interior of my H-19 medium gray [Gunze H-317] and the other three parts around the rotor base Gunze H-58 interior green

HTH

                           John .

Helo H-34

Hi Bondoman ,

A closer inspection of the pic I posted does seem to show a slightly different landing gear arrangement to the one Mach 2 offer with their PBM Mariner , it looks similar to what you would see on the PBY Cataliner flying boats ; Here is a link to the Mach 2 kit ...

http://dpalix.ifrance.com/marineg.htm

Squadron.com had the Martin PBM Mariner in action book and the Air War over korea book , so I have ordered both those to supplement by ever growing stash of Korean War bird kits , hopfully the Mariner book should provide some additional info on the different landing gear set up .

                                John .

Your very interesting picture has a PBM-5A (amphibian), which, like a PBY-5A, has self contained retractable landing gear. I personally prefer the true boat hull, like the kit.

I have that kit too. The one very obvious problem seems to be the clear canopy which is pretty bad, and there are no replacements available. But that's something one could live with for such an imposing craft.

Here's a good, if tragic, PBM story from that era.

http://www.airspacemag.com/history-of-flight/highjump.html?c=y&page=1

Hello all,

Well I finally got a chance to break into my Banshee! The cockpit is a little bare as far as detail. I started with this area as the rest of the kit is pretty good. Here are some pics. For those of you out there that my have references I need some help with the interior color for my H-19.....Italeri shows it as "pale green." I was wondering if it isn't interior green instead. Any help is appreciated.

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Added "tape" seatbelts with wire buckles (first time attempting this). The ejection handle was a guess from some pics I have seen. I made it from stretched sprue.

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different view of the pit. A lot of the detail will disappear whe the fuselage goes together.....but I really just wanted to start working on my scratch building skills.

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Thats all for now. Any help with the H-19 is greatfully appreciated!

Travis

Helo: this photo showing the size of the thing in 1/72 is the only photo I took. I'd take some more but my computer is in the shop being upgraded and the office computer I'm posting from is so slow I'm afraid to even try to do anything in PhotoBucket with it.

Sorry, hope this helps some.

Hi Bondoman ,

A closer inspection of the pic I posted does seem to show a slightly different landing gear arrangement to the one Mach 2 offer with their PBM Mariner , it looks similar to what you would see on the PBY Cataliner flying boats ; Here is a link to the Mach 2 kit ...

http://dpalix.ifrance.com/marineg.htm

Squadron.com had the Martin PBM Mariner in action book and the Air War over korea book , so I have ordered both those to supplement by ever growing stash of Korean War bird kits , hopfully the Mariner book should provide some additional info on the different landing gear set up .

                                John .

In fact that's a PBM-5A amphibian, a rare bird. The Mach 2 is a true flying boat, and a "challenging" model too. Good choice of subjects.

stikpusher

Helo, I seriously can not keep pace with all your additions to the build roster...

Sorry about that stik , I'm not trying to make life difficult or anything , It's just these 11.30pm internet searchers I do on Korean War aircraft and I stumble onto another aircraft , I get all big eyed and think , yes I must build one of those ...

Here's an example , I came across this pic in my Air War Korea book

A nice color pic of a U.S.Navy H03S-1 and in the background a Martin PBM Mariner ;

I then find myself over at Hannants in the UK looking for PBM Mariner's .... I just ordered the Mach 2 Martin PBM 3/5 Mariner with 1953 USN markings ;

Just as well I have a whole 12 months to build all these birds  

                                              John .

Most definatly, The blue im using is quite clear so im putting a white base coat down to not only make it pop but so i know where ive been

Coming along nicely Mikey! I take it the white will be a primer coat?

Ok heres the photo of my current progress. Im brush painting the whole thing because its how i roll

auggieman, i was on the squdron site ordering some stuff for my f-86 and they had some f9f decals for $2 bucks a pop.  the min order was $15 but im sure if you are like me that wont be a prob.!!

thanks helo 34, your right in that  hobbycraft doesnt exactly burn up the capital on decals!! but a simlpe kit like this will get me moving again to  build more AC. ive got a steep learning curve ahead of me because im primarly an armor guy

SAR , good luck with your 1/48 Sea Fury , I noticed that hobbycraft dont give you all that much on their decal sheet ,

Gamera , I was wondering if you had posted a pic of the B-29 sprues on the NMF GB , I was curious as to whats in the box ?

I was also curious about the color of the pilots uniform in the Korean War , I found an article in my aircraft magazines on the F-84 Thunderjet in Korea , there is two pic's of USAF pilots , one seems to be wearing a light khaki flying suit , the other pic show's a dark olive drab suit ?

Is the different color because of the different seasons...Summer/Winter ???

                                      John .

well i cleaned up the cockpit and painted it floquill black with a drybrush of light gray and boy im afraid that when i button up this thing its gonna be a black hole!!  i also dipped my canopy in future to help things along in that dept. ill shoot some pics when ive actually have made some progress.

Aurora, feel free to post progress pics of your Centurion here. I love that tank. One where they got just about everything right in design.. Especially when you consider it's design is for all intents and purposes, WWII. And you are now added to the roster with the Monogram AD.

I gotta agree about the Sea Fury- more muscle than a Spitfire, but every bit as pleasing to the senses.

Stik,

Nice work, so far, on your Centurion. I'm looking forward to see the progress on yours. I'm doing one for a show in late September. I'll post m progress pics hear, if it's ok. Since you're going to next July, I'd like to try backdating my Monogram 'Tour of Duty' A-1H Skyraider to a Korean War vintage AD-4.

The Centurion seemed to be so much ahead of it's time, considering the 1st mark was built before the end of WWII. 

John,

The Fury is as beautiful a warbird as the Spitfire, but with more muscle. Can't wait to see wait to see how she turns out.

Aggieman, your kit is now updated to the roster.I look forward to seeing your work. I also wanna see that  B-1!  I have one in my stash but no where to put it right now once I do build one...

Helo, I seriously can not keep pace with all your additions to the build roster...

Aggieman: TBA

Great work all around guys!

Helo: I'm building the Academy 1/72 B-29 for Vetteman's natural metal GB. Excellent kit overall but with lots of injection pin holes that need to be filled in the interior. I spent all weekend beating my head against the wall trying to get a decent undercoat for the natural metal though.

Nice sea fury. Airfix kits do go together quickly, mainly because of the lack of parts lol. It looks good though,

The corsairs coming along, sorry for the lack of pics, got it all glued up and putting the white primer down now.

Ill be doing 3-4 coats of X-3 Royal Blue, After Coat 2 or 3 depending on how opaque it becomes at that stage ill run the panel lines in silver just to make them stand out a little. For was extremely good on this kit. Very light puttying along the seams but that was just to sort out a couple sanding issues i had more than anything.

Ill try get photos tonight.

Cheers

Mike

The Airfix Sea Fury goes together quite quickly and there are no fit issues .

The cockpit opening is quite small and you don't really see all that much , probably a lot less once the canopy goes on . I'll see if I can find a pilot to go in there as well .

I'll add a bit of tamiya putty to the fuselage join and put her with the other three waiting to be sanded .

I'm looking forward to my Trumpeter Sea Fury and Academy B-29 arriving latter in the week

                            John .

Great! A B-29.  I was just wondering right before I read John's post, if anybody would build a B-29.  I was going to go by the hobby shop today, but the wife is in a fowl mood.

The interior of my Corsair is really sparse it detail.  I'm wishing I would've ordered the True Details set for it.....

Everybody's builds are looking good!

Cheers,

Greg

While the putty is drying on the Invader and P-51's , I decided to take a closer look at the Airfix Sea Fury kit .

The kits plastic is a little soft and slightly grainy , if I'm not mistaken this looks a lot like a PM model kit in a Airfix box ?

Anyway I started to put together the cockpit , you just get a seat , floor and rear bulkhead , so I went to the trusty spares box to see how I could make things look a bit better...

I added a front consol and two side consol panels and found a control stick , this should fill in the cockpit void . I filed and drill out for the fuel tanks and rockets on the wing and glued the top and bottom wing halves together but I must say apart from the great decal sheet this kit is a little disappointing .

It's my birthday in a couple of weeks and the family gave me some money to buy a couple of kits that I would really like ; So I searched  around a few online hobby stores and saw the Trumpeter 1/72 Sea Fury FBII ,

The kit comes with the option of folding the wings , so I ordered one along with some Royal Australian Navy decals for the Korean War .

I also saw this kit ..

I had just enough money left for the B-29A Super Fortress "Korean War" , so I ordered this one as well .

I also saw the Revell Privateer that gregbbear has his eye on getting , I'm sure his wife will let him buy it , so I went for the B-29 instead

The Airfix Sea Fury should go together okay , there's not that many parts and the decals will sure spruce up a rather average kit .

                               John .

Some Assembly Required, you are added to the roster.

Stik the target is shaping up nicely!!!!

SAR Looking forward to seeing the Sea Fury come together!!!!

Oh, I see now. ( Man, what a waist of a perfictally good aircraft) Mabe I out to give this a shot. I don't know, since I'm not too sure if my hobby shop has any 1/72 scale models, but I may be able to find one.

The drones were basically primative cruise missiles, they were loaded with bombs and flown by remote control into heavily defended targets. The US did the same thing with worn out B-17s in WW2 against rocket launch sites and submarine pens.