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

Holy Cow, JOhn!!!! Those are some monster-kits you have there!! Where do you display them? Outside?

Nice choice of builds, too. I don't see them too often. Really looking forward to the outcome.

John, you never cease to amaze at what gets put on the bench next, and I like it!!!!!!!!!!! Looking forward to your first completions!!!

Mike, the only set I could find off hand, is on ebay.  It is Aeromaster Mid-Life Corsairs Part 1 AN 48694.  It has the real nice early war version with the big rattler.  They want $9.90usd for it.  It has two more Navy versions too.  I am going to look around some more, and see if a retailer has it too.

Cheers,

Greg

Hi Mucker and welcome back ;

Scorp , I hope you can find the decals your looking for ;

I'm really happy how the Mach 2 PBM-5 Mariner is coming together ,

Tonight I'll glue the wings and tail planes on , I did a test dry fit and they fit really well , so there shouldn't be any issue's

The PB-1W's are coming along okay ,

I'll also glue the wings /tail planes on tonight as well .

I decided to add two more important Transport Aircraft to the Korean War stash ;

A Mach 2 C-54 Skymaster and Italeri's C-47 Skytrain ,

I also picked up the vintage Airfix Short Sunderland flying boat to accompany the PBM-5 Mariner

There is a couple of reviews of the Short Sunderland over on modeling madness web site , for a old kit she appears to [dry] fit together quite well .

It will be interesting to see what will be left on my Korean War table come July 2011 , hopfully not all that much !!!

I still haven't done that much decalling on the first 6 builds , I keep getting side tracked on working on the current six builds and I'm already thinking about the next four to follow , the large transports , C-119C , C-46 , C-47 and the C-54 . Hopfully tonight after I glue the wings and tail planes on the other birds , I'll hit the decals .

                       John .

P.S. I should send a huge 'congrats' to our host Stikpusher for starting  a awesome Korean War GB

thanks for the comps guys. ooOOoo i like the way you think greg. a couple mods on the paint and shed be about right. a bit bright in the blue. but i think it could pass. any idea where i can get decals for the death rattlers?

Yes, welcome back Mucker.  A lot of cool stuff going on here.  Looking forward to your Sabre.  And, can you ever really have enough Corsairs?  Thanks for the comments guys, I appreciate it.  After Mike's decal debacle, I am holding my breath on mine.

Mike, your bird is looking good.  The only extra decals I have are for -4B.   VMF 332 "Polka Dots".  One of the coolest looking -4's is the VMF-323 "Death Rattlers".  The big rattlesnake on the nose looks cool.  So, if you are taking votes for what to use as replacements, that is mine!

Cheers,

Greg

back Mucker!!!!!

Great work so far, all. I've been away from the bench for the last many weeks doing Summer stuff with the family. I've missed out on about 10 pages worth of work here...hope to get started on by Sabre in a few weeks....after the kiddies go back to school.

Looks like we'll have our own fighter group of Corsairs!

John- Great idea on the cowl flaps, worked a treat!  Those planes are some of the coolest amphibians, just something about them.

Nice work on that Corsair Greg, love those black ones. 

Mike- Too bad about those decals!  Sorry to hear that she is fighting you so badly.

John the correct term for the cowl flaps is exactly that, cowl flaps. Nice touch btw!!!

Greg, very nice black finish!!!!

Scorp, looks like you worked out your paint!!! Too bad about the decals, hope that gets sorted soon!!!

Nice work greg. heres where im at, heres where im stopping till i get some decals.

Ok so the first photo shows how transparent the paint is, thats at 2 coats. Its not the best paint work. colours slightly off. its a bit lumpy. but this kit has kinda fought me since day 1.

Last photo shows the only decal i managed to salvage.

Looking good Greg

I really like the overall black scheme on the night Corsair .

Nice work on your other birds too .

                                John .

Hello, I finally painted my F4U black!  I am on the downhill side finally.  So far, so good.  I even managed to get a little bit done on some other projects.

I was watching a movie yesterday, while modeling.  It had a line in it:  "you learn to play a better game, you have to play better players".  Certainly makes sense in the modeling world.  I have certainly gotten a lot of help from you "better players".  Thanks again. Tomorrow,  I am going on a 48hours stint at work, so no progress for a few days. 

Cheers,

Greg

Cheers for the support guys. i pretty much need a full set. the only decal i could salvage was ONE of the jolly roger flags for the nose. all the rest kinda went to poo. Im waiting to hear back from gordon at sprue brothers for an insurance claim for lost mail so depending on what happens i might  order some from there.

I'm not quite sure what Mach 2 had in mind with the engine cowl on their PBM-5 Mariner and the way it sits on to the front of the wing , Its not exactly a neat fit onto the extension piece ;

I decided to cut with a razor blade [carefully] all the individual little cowl flaps , there is probably a proper term for them , I just dont know what to call them , sorry ;

I wrapped some masking tape around the hobby pliers , so as not to mark the plastic and carefully plied the "cowl flaps" out a little bit . The cowl definatly sits a lot better on the extension piece and probably looks a bit better too .

                                                 John .

Mike, what do you need in decals?  I've got the kit decals since I'm using AM if you just need the stars.  I've got some other -4B too.

Going to paint tomorrow.  I did get some bits done today.

All the builds are looking great.  The T-26 is one impressive looking tank!

Cheers,

Greg

Helo, nice fix on those wings.  

Scorpio, tough luck with those decals.  Hopefully it won't set you back too much money and time.

Hannants in the UK have some Eagle Strike decals in 1/48 for Korean War F4U-4B Corsair ...

http://www.hannants.co.uk/search/index.php?product_category_id=&product_division_id=&manufacturer_id=&code=&product_type_id=&scale_id=&keyword_search=F4U-4B+Corsair&setPerPage=25

I order stuff from Hannants nearly every week , delivery time is about 7-10 days , there is no minium order for flat items sush as decals and books , however its 30 pounds min for kits  .

HTH

                             John .

GAHHH!!! RAGE!!!! started decals on my corsair and blow me but the big stars on the wings snapped and crumbled while i was applying them. The backing paper on these decals is closer to cardboard than paper. im looking at AM decals now. any suggestions?

The nightshift elves have come through for me with the 4B Corsair ;

I must say , I'm greatly relieved this actually worked ! . I'm sure I probably read about doing this to fix wing alignments sometime in the past and the memory must have kicked in , I'm certainly not that smart enough to have invented the idea myself . Anyway back to decalling the first 6 birds .

                                           John .

Thanks guys, much appreciated!

John- Glad Richie found a photo for you.  Also, I bet you're glad you found that alignment issue now instead of later!  Great stuff, nothing like a pair of Corsairs on one's bench- BLISS!

Thank you very much John!

Well , I'm about to hit the sack  , so hopfully the elves will fix everything overnight and I'll wake up with a nice pair of F4U-4B's

                                         John

I thought I might try this to see if it would work...

I ran a small bead of hobby glue along the top of the wing/fuselage join and then using some 3M blue masking tape attatched to the bottom of the left wing and pulled very tightly to lift the wing to the same height/position as the right wing . I'll leave her overnight and check in the morning . I think it might work ?

                           John .

Lt Cmdr. Richie , thank's for the engine pic's and the detail on your corsair engine is excellent ,

Very nice work Sir ...

                     John .

OOOOOOOOOOO didn't notice that before!!!!!!!!! I haven't attached my wings yet. Will take careful notice of that when I do, soon!!!! Was going to start my Me-163 next, finish my 190 and then get back to my Corsair, but I think I will have to pull th eCorsair out and investigate!!!! Thank you very much for the heads up John!!!

There are a couple more issue's with Italeri's 1/72 F4U-4B Corsair's , It's the first time I've only had to use masking tape to hold the aircraft pieces together after glueing , I did use a couple of aligator/metal clips on the external fuel tank and 500lb bombs ; So I thought everything was going really well ...

However there does seem to be a problem with the wings not being in line with the rest of the aircraft .

Siting the corsair on her nose and linning up the tail fin and tail planes with the grid markings on my cutting mat , the starboard wing sits much higher than the port wing ???

I've checked and re-checked the fuselage to make sure everything is sitting correctly , the underside of the wing and fuselage are nice and flush , so I think it might be an error with the kit wings ?

I'm not sure at this stage if this might affect the landing gear stance , has anyone else had a similar problem like this before ...

                                          John .

John it should go like it shows in the instructions. Those two big protrusions in a 'V' at the top, those are the magnetos. Here's a pic of a real one.

and th eone in my -4B. Engines&Things resin with added pushrods and ignition harness.

HTH

I really like the dents on your tank frank , great work

I have a question for all the "Corsair Experts" ; Italeri's F4U-4B Corsair instructions aren't all that clear when it comes to the engine placement

Does the engine sit with the two larger cylinder's at the top , I'm think it probably does but I would like to find out for sure before I glue them both in ???

TIA

                   John .

Frank she's coming along fine!!! Looking forward to more pics!!!