Thanks for the painting tip kermit! 
Here is the completed pics for my three little birdies!!
A 1/72 scale F4u-1a Corsair from Testors. The kit was very basic, with
only a solid plastic area to represent the cockpit. I cut out the
plastic ans built a cockpit from scratch. To get an idea of how small
this kit is: it easily fits on the palm of my hand. The kit came with both wings in the lowered position, but I decided to
fold up one of the wings. This required slicing the original kit wings
in half and boxing in the wing fold areas so you could not see through
the wing. The kit-supplied arrestor hook at the rear of the plane was
broken off during construction, so I built a new one out of a bent
paperclip.
also cut apart the flaps on the wings and added rounded plastic to the
edged to show them lowered. And NO, the wing on the model does NOT
fold! So DO NOT try to bend it!!! ( I showed this plane to a group of friends and one decided to see if the wing really did fold...SNAP!! 
) Additionally, I added detail to the landing gear. Everything but the
main strut and wheel was added by me. I hollowed the area behind the cowl a bit to better
represent where the exhaust stack would be.
I boxed in the wheel wells with thin strips of plastic to prevent a
see-through effect in the wing. I also added the strengthening bars to
the inside of the wheel well. The tail wheel well was also solid plastic
that I cut away and added detail to. The wing-intakes were solid plastic that I cut out and added little
plastic strips to.
I hand-painted this kit, scratched wing-fold detail, detailed the landing
gear, boxed in the wheel wells, cut apart and dropped the elevators,
and scratched built a cockpit on this airplane. I also cut out plastic
on the wing tips and put in green and red colored clear plastic and
sanded them to shape, representing landing lights.
That's a lot of work for such a small little plane!!
