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Thanks Chris!

Just to make some things clear. I want to know what color to use in the cockpit if I could use the same color there as I did on the Typhoon or if I should use a darker green color. The wheel wells should to my understanding be painted in insignia white, the same color as the underside.

Cheers,

Azgaron

Azgaron, For the wheel wells on the Corsair, I have seen some that are done in Zinc Chromate Yellow - like the color you used on the Typhoon.  I have seen later versions of the Corsair that were painted overall Dk Sea Blue where the wheel wells were also dark blue.  I think it depends on the version that you make - the paint schemes changed over time.

I am not familiar with the AS numbers, but the standard Pacific Tri-Color Scheme is Dark Sea Blue upper surfaces, Medium Blue sides, and white undersides.  On the sections of the wings that folded, the undersides were painted medium blue.

Mist,   Nice job on the Val so far. 

Max,  The AM SBD kits are awesome.  I finished the -5 last year.  The only trouble I had was with the angle of the instrument panel.  I'd recommend some dry fitting to fine tune the angle of the IP so that it fits just right inside the fuselage halves.   I didn't - so I wound up having to fiddle with it quite a bit to get it to fit right.

Chris

I almost thought everyone was on vacation or something!

Mist,

Thanks for the tip, I might try that! Looking good btw. Hope you get the PE sorted out!

JMart,

Thanks, but which colors match the AS numbers?

Max,

Very nice looking cockpit!

Cheers,

Azgaron

I got a little more done on the SBD-3 office. I hope the instructions are right when they say this is the hardest part of the kit. Half the parts of the whole kit seem to be here!

So far the parts seem to fall together, its a really nice kit!

Comments welcome!

Bossman - Nice update on the jeep!

Azgaron - Sorry, cant help too much... I *think* that rattle can "colors" are the same as the bottles, but I have only matched ONE color (some gray). Problem is, with the rattle can color will seem more "heavy"/darker due to more paint being deposited on the plastic. Wish I had better info to give you...

Mist086 - Looking good! and my, WHO sent you that wrong PE??? 

GO NY GIANTS :)

After running outta tape for my IMS2 build, i got this baby out and started on her.  I Got most of the Prelim painting done.  Next is assembly.  I was overlaying the PE parts out when i noticed a slighht problem.  The PE is for a Hase kit.  This is a fujimi.  I can fudge on some of it, but most of it just doesn't fit.  Here are the pics.

P.S. Azgaron, I use for my IJN cockpits, Tamiya XF-4 Yellow green over a Green Zinc Cromate base.  It works fairly well for the interior colors.

Jim

I've started out, assembling the cockpit, but I got some questions. Will the color like I used in the wheel wells on my Typhoon work?

The instructions says medium blue (XF-18) on the panels, but on the pics they look black, except for some of the panels on the sides that looked blue to me.

I'm thinking of building it with the wings folded. If so, then are the cowling flaps closed or open?

The instructions also states that the wheel wells and inside of cowlings should be that interior green mix, but as far as I know at least the wells are the same color as the underside ie Navy insignia white (AS-20)

Last (for now), the colors for the tri color scheme are given for Tamiyas rattle cans if I'm not mistaken, but I don't intend to use them and like to know suitable substitutes for AS-8, AS-19 and AS-20.

TIA

Azgaron

Thanks for the info, guys! Very helpful.

I'll have a look at the sites and will do the conversions myself, thanks again! 

A visual progress update on the 1/72 Jeep, P-51, & F-16.  I'm pretty sure you'll be able to tell which parts are which...

The surface detail on the Academy P-51 kit extends from the nose to the wing tips down to to the tires.  I'm really impressed with this kit.

Chris

Avus wrote:

I've started building mine, but I have a question before I can contiune: what's the interior (cockpit) color of IJN aircraft? The instructions say a mix of blue green and yellow, but i'd prefer to have a defined color (possibly Vallejo Model Color) that fits the need. Any help?

Um, I looked this up awhile ago for some Zero/RUFEs I was planning to do for the IJN/IJA GB, let me check....

A web page with some discussion on the topic:

http://www.j-aircraft.com/faq/aircraft_interiors.htm

The color I found best match was testors/model masters Interior Mettalic Blue (2119).

Not sure what the Vallejo match is (if any) but here are a couple of paint equivalence charts:

http://www.ttfxmedia.com/vallejo/cgi-bin/_modelis_info.asp?p1=ing&p2=modelair&p3=1#modelairinfo

http://www.phoenix-model.com/paint_charts.htm

Good luck!

There's some nice progress here!

I've started building mine, but I have a question before I can contiune: what's the interior (cockpit) color of IJN aircraft?
The instructions say a mix of blue green and yellow, but i'd prefer to have a defined color (possibly Vallejo Model Color) that fits the need. Any help?

I am finally posting some pics. I don't have any of Christmas morning due to no camera where I was :| I do pics of the kit itself. I got the Pro-modeler F-86D Dog Saber from John. I am excited about this as this will be the first aircraft from that era that I have ever built. The NMF will be interesting, not sure how I will deal with that just yet but I will cross that bridge when I come to it.

Freddie, catching up in here tonight, what an amazing build! I cant even take pics that close much less build a cockpit like that :)  Look forward to seeing more....

I finally got some pics, here I am posting my Xmas pic while some people are almost done with their builds :)

The great Eduard kit I got from Freddie from LI:

Start date is planned for the summer.... thanks again! james

Well, I finally got a start (albeit a small one!) on the AM SBD-3 Dauntless.

Its just a little bit of the office. I love the detail on this one! It's gonna be fun!

Hopefully I can pick up the pace on this one a little.

Comments and criticisms always welcome! (keep in mind I'm not going for perfection as far as accuracy goes. I just want it to look good.)

Looks nice, Dave!

Gluing the top halves first, sounds like a trick I like to try sometime!

Azgaron

Looks like a couple of great kits Randie.  I look forward to seeing them built. 

Thanks guys for your comments on the pit.  Progress continues with assembly and I'm just starting on the filling the seams.  I tried something different this time and glued the top wing half on first before gluing it to the bottom wing as dry fitting showed the wing root seam would have been huge.  I am happy with the result (anything to avoid a wing root seam) but there is some misallignment of the engine mount.  I certainly don't mind that trade off.

OK! My apologies to Bondo for not getting these posted sooner!! I didn't get any of my ugly mug opening them but, here is what I got from Bondo!

Pardon the picture. I just couldn't get the darn camera to focus for some reason. Anyway, here are the cool decals that were also sent for the Bronco kit!! I would also like to say that if anyone is interested in building a CDF Bronco? These decals from Draw are fantastic!!!

WOW !

 Y'll are going a GREAT job

Bud

 1/72 scale? Incredible! Nice job! Amazing

Zip

Looking real nice, Dave! Very nice cockpit!

Azgaron

Drew, Chris, Freddie, TLP (did I miss anyone ) Nice progress Guys!    Keep it coming.

I finally finished the pit tonight on my 1/72 fine molds Me 410 and I'm ready to close up the fuselage.  The only thing I added was some spare PE seatbelts in the front seat and some scratched belts in the back seat as that was my last PE seat belt that I put in the front.

Here is another website, I hope you find interesting, if you don't know about it.  If I post previous ones that already have been put up, and humour me in my senior stage.

http://www.zenoswarbirdvideos.com/World_War_II_Aviation_Link.html

PaPa-John

Nice progress Freddie and Drew, you guy's are doing some great work and I have had a chance to start yet. Hopefully I can get to the bench this weekend.

Steve

You are welcome.

Don't know is this has ever been posted as there is just so much material in the forums to try and find this information, but I'll put it up anyway.  I have it bookmarked.

Cockpits of numerous aircraft'  site, for me anyway

http://uscockpits.com/

Thanks Papa-John for the nice walkaround link, and thanks Drew for confirming the accuracy. When I know what I need to know, I'll let you know! References are always good to have. I read an interesting article on IPMS Stockholm about interior colors and it says a little about Corsairs here. Nice progress btw.

Freddie, nice pics, looking awesome!

Azgaron