Paint job 2

Silver and Hairspray, Zink cromat color covered with hairpsray and ready for black base coat.

 

Starting the paint job

 The whole Corsair was base coated in black, the Canopy was masked and sprayed with interior green.

Next Steps for paiting:

• airbrush some areas with Aluminium Flat and and cover it with hairspray, done
  
• Cover some areas with Zink cromate and cover it with hairspray, done
  
• prime again with black, done
  
• start to preshade with lighter blue 
• spray several layers with sea blue 5% in the mix 
• scratch of on the designated areas with a lot of worn the color 

 

 

Corsair Engine

Engine Considerations – F4U Corsair

The F4U Corsair was designed around the most powerful engine available at the time: the Pratt & Whitney R-2800 Double Wasp, an 18-cylinder radial engine delivering 2,000 hp (1,500 kW). To effectively harness that power, the aircraft was fitted with a Hamilton Standard Hydromatic three-blade propeller, measuring an impressive 13 feet 4 inches (4.06 meters) in diameter.

For my build, I enhanced the engine detail using Eduard photo-etched parts, specifically for the ignition cables. These fine PE parts add a much higher level of realism to the engine assembly, capturing the complexity of the wiring around the massive radial.

Flight Deck 1/48 Corsair Fuselage and Wings/Flaps

The Wings are glued togehter and before they have been painted in Interior Green, also teh folding mechanism. The flaps are glued in Landing position. For the Diorama the Corsair will be displayed with Folded Wings.

 

 

 

Flight Deck 1/48 Corsair Fuselage and Wheel bay

Airbrushed the Wheel bay area with Black and Interior Green, glued the parts togehter and married the Wing and the Fuselage. For the Bay wiring is used Photo eteched parts from Eduard.

Flight Deck 1/48 Corsair Cockpit

 For the Cockpit I ordered Eduard Photo Etched Parts and followed the instructions of removing parts and sections from the orginial parts, using photo etched parts is on my opinion always tricky to cut and glue but the result is awesome2 compared to the the kit cockpit.

I painted all Cockpitparts in XF-1 Black and mixed the Interior Green from XF-3 and XF-5 in a ratio of 2:1 and painted the parts.

Corsair 1/48 Flight Deck Diorama

My next Project is to create a Flight Deck in Scale 1/48. The Tamiya Kit with Moto Tug is used and the Flight Deck is from Coastal and was ordered in Poland with Eduard Photo Etched parts for Cockpit and general.

The Flight Deck is from the Carrier USS WASP or USS Hancock about the last months of 1945 Pacific War. 

                                                

The scenery is a wing folded Corsair on a Flight Deck hooked up on a Motor Tug.

 

 

Coastal kits S112-48 1:48 WW2 US Carrier Deck 420 x 297mm

 ordered by Superhobby for 26 Euro, more pictures will follow.

 

 

 

 

Vought F4U-1D Corsair VMF 216 makes belly landing on USS Wasp CV 18 Chichi Jima 18th Feb 1945 01