60th Anniversary Korean War Group Build- extended for the duration

Sorry , the link I posted didn't seem to work , here's the link ...

http://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://warbirdlegends.com/Photos/Korea/AD-5_JXN2007KR_05.jpg&imgrefurl=http://warbirdlegends.com/Korea.html&usg=__QalXVRpXnAqXeqUrlMKx9UQ-Dm0=&h=787&w=1200&sz=197&hl=en&start=8&zoom=1&tbnid=uPt7pnsHcwPKWM:&tbnh=98&tbnw=150&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dad-5%2Bskyraider%2BKorean%2BWar%26hl%3Den%26sa%3DG%26gbv%3D2%26tbs%3Disch:1&itbs=1

                  John .

I was searching around the internet looking for images of Korean War aircraft and came across this site ;

http://www.google.com.au/imgres?imgurl=http://warbirdlegends.com/Photos/Korea/AD-5_JXN2007KR_05.jpg&imgrefurl=http://warbirdlegends.com/Korea.html

Her is a pic of an AD-5 Skyraider from the site...

I have a Revell AD-5/A-1E Skyraider sitting in the spares box ; [it was a stalled AD-5W project as I was unable to find decals to suit] , apart from glueing in the tub and fuselage halves and wings together , I was thinking of building the Skyraider as in the pic above ...

I wanted to check on the accuracy of the aircraft depicted in the photo as a Korean War aircraft , as I will have some VMA-332 [MR] markings left over from the Italeri F4U-4B Corsair kits I could use .

Did this aircraft operate during the Korean War , with those markings ?????

Any help would be gratefully appreciated ;

TIA

                    John .

Nice work everyone! Greg that corsair looks fantastic, the black came out great, always a hard color for me to get right in scale.

Hope to have some pics tonight of my M26 and MIG 15,, dang work keeps getting the way!

Thank you very much guys!  I appreciate it.

John, you are a surgeon my friend.  I too am fascinated by the night fighters over Korea too.  Without hardley any aids, they still flew effectively against air and ground.  I am going to have to look for that book.

Thanks again guys.

Cheers,

Greg

That's some outstanding work, Greg!

Smooth Smooth Smooth! Dark colors are easy to show silvering on decals so kudos on the top notch job there, as well.

Until you get the canopy back on, we'll just say you've got the windows rolled down. I'll be looking for the completed pics!

Gregbbear

Thanks Mucker, I appreciate it.  I am going to give flightdecs.ca a try.

Well, I was hoping to show y'all a completed Corsair, but I ran into trouble in the end.  I was using goo-gone to get some tape residue of the windscreen and it ate into it.  I think it was just the future it ruined.  I am soaking it in windex for now.  I ran out of flat coat and so did my LHS, so I couldn't finish the bomb and rocket.  I need to add aerials too.  I haven't mastered the skill of sprue stretching.....

With that and a little bit of touching up, and she'll be done!

Cheers,

Greg

WOW Greg ,

Very , Very nice ; Even if she's only 98% finished , your F4U-5N Night Fighter is really looking awesome

I've become totally obsesed with Korean War Night Fighters ; Today I ordered from Tower Hobbies the 1/48 scale Hasegawa F4U-5N Corsair and Italeri's F7F-3N Tigercat also in 1/48 . The Cobra Company 1/72 scale F7F-3N conversion set for the Monogram kit arrived yesterday , so I'm good to go with the 1/72 builds.

I also ordered from Amazon books , Night Fighters over Korea , I can't wait for that book to arrive .

I copied pic's of your '5N' Night Fighter into the computer for insperation and I can't wait to see her fully loaded .

Excellent work buddy .

                                          John .

Looking very deadly dressed to kill in black!

Thanks Mucker, I appreciate it.  I am going to give flightdecs.ca a try.

Well, I was hoping to show y'all a completed Corsair, but I ran into trouble in the end.  I was using goo-gone to get some tape residue of the windscreen and it ate into it.  I think it was just the future it ruined.  I am soaking it in windex for now.  I ran out of flat coat and so did my LHS, so I couldn't finish the bomb and rocket.  I need to add aerials too.  I haven't mastered the skill of sprue stretching.....

With that and a little bit of touching up, and she'll be done!

Cheers,

Greg

I agree with mucker , the preliminary work on your twin stang is quite good Greg , I'll be watching your build progress as I have both the Monogram and Special Hobby twin Mustangs in the stash .

A bit more of an update on the F4U-5N Corsair Night Fighter ;

In the middle of masking and getting some of the interior parts ready to airbrush , I decide to cut the wing flaps and pose them in the drop position , I saw back on page 2 that simpilot was doing the same with his F4U-4B , so I copied his great work .

I also decided to remove part of the front resin engine cowl and cut the cowl flaps to pose them slightly open ;

The resin front section is a little thick especially around the cowl flaps , so I filed down the insides a little ;

I think it looks okay , I'm even thinking about a basic wing fold but I'm not sure if I can pull it off ???

                                  John .

The "office" of the Sabre looks stunning!

I have been making realy slow progress on the SAAF Sabre due to work load.When you work for yourself it can be a hassle sometimes LOL!

I have completed the assembly and sanding.I desided to not use the Academy supplied decals for the yellow wing and fuse bands.I am a little worried they will not conform to the fuse to well. So, I am painting them on and atleast I have managed to put the yellow on today.

I will then mask the yellow and put gloss black over the whole thing to give the silver a little more "feel"

Pix to follow

Theuns

Don't sell yourself short, Greg. What you've done in the cockpit is the core of modeling. You've gone from assembling a pre-formed plastic kit (which is me: an assembler) to taking your own materials and creating something, which is modeling (In my opinion, anyways).

I can't help you with the decals for the F-82...I don't think there's much out there. Have you tried flightdecs.ca? They usually have a ton of stuff.

Mucker, sweet sabre pit.

John, you never cease to amaze me!

Tomorrow morning I will actually have the house to myself for a couple of hours.  Maybe, just maybe, I will be posting some completion pictures of the Corsair.  Since my major projects are too far along (and too fragile) to bring back and forth to work, I started something else.  I just started on the Monogram F-82G Twin Mustang.  I am hoping that somebody will release some additional decals for it, otherwise I will make it a generic one used in Korea.  It seems like a real nice little kit.  The detail and the fit (so far) are really good for a kit first released in 1973!  So far, I have just added some "gizmology" in the pilot's cockpit.  I am unsure if I will do the same in the radar/observer side.  When I seal it up and it makes a difference, I will.  I also drilled out the gun barrels.  Nowhere near what you guys are doing, though.

Any suggestions on the Twin Stang would be much appreciated!

Cheers,

Greg

Thank's Mucker .

I've also been messing around with the C-46 Commando , I decided to cut open both fuselage cargo doors and found a couple of support struts to use and I made two internal bulkhead pieces ;

The bulkhead parts were left over from Academy's B-17 kits , I added some plastic sheet to the bottom half to make them the correct size ;

I'll clean up the last of the putty and airbrush the interior pieces metalic gray

                                    John .

Nice chop work on the Corsair, John! I'm not very good at "surgery", and I wish I had you skills as I try to fit the resin "E' wing onto my "F" variant Sabre fuselage.

I glued the High Planes resin front section to the Revell fuselage halves and taped them together for a dry test fit ;

I also cut a 3mm spacer from the High planes resin wing center section and glued it onto the Revell wings , as I thought about using the wings from the Revell kit as well ; I also taped them together for a dry test fit ...

Everything looks okay from the side ;

Underneath looks okay too ;

I guess I'll end up using almost 95% of the Revell F4U-5 kit than I originally planed , the scribing detail on the wings and fuselage piece's is a lot more prominent on the Revell kit .

It looks like everything will work out , so I'm happy

                              John .

Here's an update on the 1/72 F4U-5N Night Fighter Corsair ;

The Revell F4U-5 Corsair kit arrived today , I bought the kit so I could use the cockpit tub , console and center drop tank on my High Planes F4U-5N Corsair ...

I've decided to use a lot more of the Revell kit , including the wheels , engine , radome ...

I then decided to just use the front fuselage section and wings and metal landing gear  from the High Planes kit and everything else will be the revell kit ...

It appears that this might work out okay , [I hope] , I'll glue the fuselage sections together next and give the cockpit tub and other interior parts a few coats of  paint .

                                     John .

I have started to cut out the parts for the F-86 tonight. It will be a slow build but hopefully not too long of one.

Hi Mucker ,

The cockpit tub detail is absolutly awesome , well done Sir

Your hard work and effort has really paid off .

Very nice

                                      John .

Everybodys looking awesome. I put the corsair aside again. im having trouble getting motivated on it. Working on a quick build for the NMF GB so hopefully be on to it next weekend. I must say im not overly keen on Eagle Strike decals. They seem to be a little thick and seem to have alot of clear film overlap around them. Wouldn't be an issue except 2 of the decals cover the entire vertical tail surfaces. Oh well. ill sort it soon.

Looking good everybody!

I haven't made much progress on my Corsair other than putting the dull cote on it the other day.  I am itching to get to finish it off, but work and the wife have gotten in the way.  It is almost there.

Hopefully, I will have something to post in a few days.  Keep up the great work guys.

Cheers,

Greg

Cool, Aaron! My only complaint is you need more pictures!!

Aaron, that's pretty!

Well I had a great time considering I was working, but its nice to be back at the bench, a month without glue fumes is just too long.   Looks like you guys were quite busy while I was away.

I've got the basic decals on, and hope to get the lightning bolts added soon.

Nice work on the Banshee , Travis and Stik , your centurion turret is looking good

I've been doing some research on the F3D-2 Skyknight and picked up the Douglas F3D Skyknight book by Steve Ginter ;

There are lots of great pic's in the book , however sadly there are not that many close-up [walk a round] photos of the different aircraft systems , other than a few line drawings of the cockpit and this maintenance diagram ;

I would really like to do something similar with my build as in the pic above , I have plenty of ground crew and pilot figures to use ; Cutting open the speed [dive] brakes is straight forward , I even found some ammo box's to use in an open hatch just behind the cockpit , also cutting open some boarding steps on the starboard side of the fuselage and open the top of the canopy .

What I really would like to do is cut the nose cone off and have the AN/APQ-35 radar showing ...

I've had a bit of a search around Squadron.com and Hannants.co.uk for 1/72 resin radar sets . There are lots of resin radar's for other 1/72 aircraft but nothing for the F3D Skyknight  .

Does anyone know of similar resin radar set that might be suitable , I've become a little obsessed over this , spending the last few evenings searching the net into the wee hours

                                             John .

thanks stik. ill try that tonight.

Clear tape applied directly to the decal and then pulled up will remove decals quite effectively... found that out the last time I used the stuff to remove liquid making agent....

That banshees looking MINT, i like it. Decals arrived yesterday so hopefully my corsair will be in flyng condition soon. On a related note. does anyone know how to remove decals without damaging paint?

Travis, the F2H is coming along beautifully! I am looking forward to more progress pics.

Well today I resumed work on my Centurion. I created the electrical cable attachment points on the turret top for the smoke grenade launchers and attached the side stowage boxes. I also hollowed out the mounting brackets for the smoke grenade launchers changing them to the proper frame style rather than the solid style molded in the kit.

Well I have made some progress on the Banshee the last couple of days! I must say i can't remember having to go back and increase the paint coat so much. Could just be me of course! A lot of masking for the nose and leading edges of the wings as well! Overall I am pretty happy with the progress!. Any and all input is welcome!

1st coat of Tamiya Deep Sea Blue

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Let the masking begin!!

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.....and more masking!!

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Finished product of all that masking!!!!

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On of the issues with this kit: open canon and machine gun ports! I plan on adding some sprue to these areas.

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Well that's it for now. Thanks. More to come!

Travis