The Official F4U Corsair Group Build 4/01/08 - rolling end date

Joe, glad to be of service and glad to know that you're staying.

Mike (ruddratt) is right, posting pics is extremely easy.  Just set up a photobucket account, take a pic, save it to your harddrive, go to PB, click browse, select the pic you want to upload, click upload.  Once the pic is uploaded, look underneath the picture and you'll see a bunch of different HTML codes.  Go to the the one labled IMG Code and click on it.  It will say "copied".  Then go to your post and hit Control and V (shortcut for Paste) or right click and select paste and you are all done.

-Fred

Please see later posts.

My detail sets arrived yesterday.  I put the tank away and started to play. 

I've decided to use the resin cockpit tub, and the PE instrament panel.  I'm undecided about the seat, belts and a few other things. 

I'm having trouble finding color references for the -5N pit, does anyone have an idea where I could find some? 

Semper Fi,

Chris

thanks also,

I've opened the box(thats the start right).

Been doing a bit of research on RNZAF operated Corsairs so its all good so far.

Chris 

jeaton01 wrote:

I have the Detail and Scale book on the F4U-5, I'll get some pictures up from it tomorrow PM.

thanks jeaton,  I'm sure it'll be a great help to a few people. 

Semper Fi,

Chris

dirtball wrote:

Well I finaly found some decals. But they are from Rollmodels. I`ve herdon some posts that thier sevice wasn`t that grea. Does anyone have a comment? Also my Lonestar cockpit set is due here tommorro.(Ihope) Good luck all....Harv

Hey Harv,

RollModels' service isn't bad per se, it's just terribly slow.  I ordered a set of decals and a JLC saw and it took 3+ weeks to get.  By the time I got them, I forgot I had ordered them .

-Fred

Hey Gigatron - would love to get in on this one! I've got quite a pile of builds in the queue, so I'd probably be more in the latter half of the timeframe, but I know I can make it.

Put me down for the Tamiya 1/48 F4U1/2 Birdcage Corsair sitting in the closet I'd like to sink my teeth into!

You got it, Dupes

-Fred

  TAADAA! Got my cockpit stuff this morning. BOY, am I impressed!! LONESTARE is the best I`ve seen sofar. It even came with exaust!....Harv

That is a nice looking set.  I purchased the True Details set, which is a good set, but not perfect.  There were quite a few sink holes on the seat.  It came with AU-1, -5, and -5N/NL.  It's a good thing I didn't want to do the AU-1, because the instument panel was not molded well at all.  However, the panels are nice.  Lonestare is a company I'll have to keep in mind for my next project. 

Semper Fi,

Chris 

Lonestar does good work, especially for a one-man operation.  But, I've noticed some of his castings have bubbles, warpage, thin parts are too thin and sometimes the parts don't fit without some decent modification.  And some of the detail is gritty.  I don't know if it's in the original piece or the molds may be getting old.

I'll use him for kits that noone else has AM stuff for (like the P-61), but for more popular kits, I'll take an Aires set.  Aires has incredibly crisp detail and finish.  They have to be using a vac-pressure casting system in order to get the detail they do.

Verlinden is an OK set as well.  Their resin seems to suffer the same issues as LSM, but they include PE as well, so it's not too bad of a deal.

I'm anxious to get to my Eduard FW190-A6.  The casting looks nice and sharp and they include some nice PE stuff as well.

-Fred

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OK, thanks for the clarification. 

I worked on the pit last night, and got some primer on the resin pieces.  Maybe I'll give it some color coats tonight.  I was thinking I'd try something new on this pit.  First, coat the pit parts with flat black, then slowly build color coats on top of that in light coats.  This may be a good way to "Preshade" the deep dark pit.  It's a common technique used on armor.  It may work well on a pit.  What do you think?

Semper Fi,

Chris

Fred,

How can I get that corsair badge onto my signiture...this is my first group build.

Mark

Hey Mark - here's what you need to do. Go to the pic of the badge on page one, right click, and save it to your pc. Then you have to host it on whatever image hosting service you use (photobucket or whatever). Once you've done that, go to "update profile" at the top of the forum here, and add the link to the badge from your image service into the "signature" portion.

Done! 

Dupes...

thanks....had no experience with photobucket...got it on....

Summit wrote:

Drat, nothing in the mail today ! Still waiting for my Squadron F4U Corsair in action and PE set's.

Don't worry, Sean, we've still got 2 weeks before the GB even starts.

Here that, Ridle?  2 more weeks before we start .  Quit fiddlin with the pit and play with another kit in the meantime - sheesh, it's like kids around christmastime around here

-Fred

Hi Fred,

I'm a little new here, but not new to modeling.

I'd like to add my name to the list and model a Tamiya 1/72 F4U-1A Corsair.

In the memory of my dad, I'd like to do this paint scheme.

(dad is pictured here flying his Navy issue Corsair over Orange County. November, 1953)

Thanks!

James, I bet you just made a whole bunch of New Envious Friends by Posting the Picture of your Dad. How Cool is that !  

I see you have the 1/72 Horten, I just picked one up a few days back myself, Did you also get the Eduard PE set for it also ?  PS to the Forums.

Hey Sean/Summit,

Thanks for that. Just a little something to remember him by. Also, in the works will be a
TBM-E3 that he also was checked out in. I hope to get some laughs when I display his official letter of reprimand next to it detailing how he flew less than '1000 over a hospital. (his girlfriend worked there at the time) Not once, but twice! Can you imagine how the windows must have shaken? Well anyway, he always said it was a stupid thing to do, probably kept him from making Commander. He retired LtCdr.

I do have the Eduard pe set on order. Should be here soon.