Mal (holdfast) has sent in a nicely detailed article on his latest assembly line production-a F4U-1 'Birdcage' Corsair. Just follow the link below:

Pacific Corsair

Mal,
You've done it again !!!!! #:-) #:-) Your Corsair is absolutely beautiful !!! This is a great article.



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GREAT article Mal, as for the model as Rocket would say "another stunner"

Hi Mal

Beautiful job and a great article!

Another stunner! :-)

Rocket :-)

great model and article!!!

Mal, you have done it again! Very nice!

~Chip :-)

Hi Mal:

Fantastic article and a real outstanding model. Congrats.

very good where did u get it n how much waz it

Great looking corsair
That is the same corsair I am just starting to work on. This really gives me the inspiration to really see what I might be able to do with my kit.. I might borrow a few of your tips and try a few things such as how you made the lights. If I do - I'll be glad to give you credit for the idea

Good modeling,
Wayne

The F4U Corsair, my favorite plane of WW II and Korea.

:-) Thanks guys and gal. I really enjoyed build this model :-)
Taylor


If I managed to translate this correctly I got the kit from Model Base, in Worksop England and it cost £14.99 (The shop owner gives me a little discount so it cost me £14.00) :-)
Wayne


If you want to clarify any details just drop me a line :-)
Mal

MAL,
I've heard rave reviews of the Tamiya kit. AND YOU HAVE done an OUTSTANDING job. I love your shading and weathering . suttle but affective. You article composition is great and very easy and informative. JOB WELL DONE. I like the colors better than the Dark sea blue scheme any day. KUDOS Todd

:-) Thanks Todd, I enjoyed building the model and writing the article. Not sure I agree with you about the colours, I like the tri-colour scheme. I built the kit with these early colours to show, eventually the progression in camouflage. The colours are quite nice though :-)
Mal

I believe that Marine's Dream was painted in a field applied three tone scheme comprising sea blue/intermediate blue/white

Mark Styling

Simply breathtaking in its ghostly colours.
And a great write up to boot.
Shows the armour boys a thing or three...joke guys...only a joke....

Congrats...mines a 12 year old single malt.
Cheers
Peter

verry nice work!!

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Interesting, Mark, maybe at a later date than the scheme I have done? If not then Aeromaster might be interested in your research :-) Welcome to Armorama
Thanks Guys
Mal

Highly unlikely the plane ever appeared with the added bars to national insignia whilst still in the earlier two colour scheme. Much more likely the scheme was modified when insignia was updated (like other F4Us of the period). Can't prove it as the only photos ever seen of this plane was when it was written off at Torokina Dec '43 and at that time it was in the three tone scheme. The only ace I knew that flew this airplane had no recollection of its scheme.

Aeromaster have already used my research, but still managed to include errors in their decals.

Mark Styling

:-) Thanks for the info Mark, I still like this scheme (cos I aint gonna change it now) and as I wasn't there when this plane was around who really knows. There's possibly a million things wrong with it? I like the model, I like the scheme I like what I did with it, so at least I'm happy. In the end that's what matters to me :-)
Mal