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Pacific Corsair

Construction

Before joining the wings I boxed in the cartridge ejection chutes and added blast tubes to the gun holes. After the wings were joined I cut out the navigation lights, painted the cut out interior green and super glued a piece of clear styrene to the cut out. Before gluing I drilled a shallow hole, with a 0.3 mm drill, to represent the bulb. These were painted red for port and blue for starboard. Using files and gradually finer emery paper they were shaped the wings. For the folded option there are a couple of items to remove, a section of the wing stub and a projection on parts B9 and B26. These are well indicated on the instructions but do check them out before doing so.

The undercarriage is well represented. I added detail to the tail wheel assembly by adding lightening holes, hinge and replacing the solidly moulded shackle with wire. The undercarriage components were sprayed aluminium and given a dark grey wash, then lightly drybrushed with silver.

The tail planes are handed and have locking tabs which set them correctly, very nice, a good piece of engineering. I removed the solidly moulded trim tab actuator links on the tail planes and rudder and replaced them with wire. It is a pity that the elevators and rudder are not separate, but I don't think it would take much to animate them. I'm planning on doing so on the next one I build.