Lancfan's F4U-7 Corsair ***Finished***

Gadfly · Post by **Gadfly** » August 15th, 2015, 9:50 am

Nice work on the Dropped flaps...

Following with interest,,

GF

Stuart · Post by **Stuart** » August 15th, 2015, 12:35 pm

Great work David!

lancfan · Post by **lancfan** » August 16th, 2015, 8:41 pm

Cheers John, Toby, GF, Stuart. The story so far, I have not got as far as I had hoped today and will not get started on my MiG-21 or my Fiat BR20 today but the end of this build is certainly near.
The model has now been primed ready for the main coat.

The blue main coat came next.

The Suez stripe decals were then applied and were found to be slightly too short.

These were then painted in to complete them before applying the rest of the decals.

The decals are now down, final assembly and weathering are all that remain to complete the model.

David.

Martin R · Post by **Martin R** » August 17th, 2015, 5:39 pm

Great save with the stripes, David!

K5083 · Post by **K5083** » August 17th, 2015, 6:25 pm

I was just thinking the same thing, brilliant save. Were the stripes perhaps intended to be placed a bit further aft and outboard? Anyway the plane is looking beautiful. That is a great looking color scheme on the Corsair.

August

lancfan · Post by **lancfan** » August 17th, 2015, 6:48 pm

I positioned the stripes just outboard of the outer guns according to the painting instructions so I would say not August.

David.

Purplethistle · Post by **Purplethistle** » August 20th, 2015, 12:04 pm

Seriously nice work there, and a good save with the decals. As to the reason for the short decals, being a French plane, maybe the stripe painters went on strike!

lancfan · Post by **lancfan** » August 23rd, 2015, 3:22 pm

A surviving aircraft in this colour scheme has the wing stripes and roundels further outboard so maybe Italeri got the C/S drawings wrong.

David.

lancfan · Post by **lancfan** » August 23rd, 2015, 3:36 pm

Finished at last, although the surface detail is very good the parts fit is not good enough and the wall thickness of the main components is quite thin. real life has intruded a lot lately and I picked this from the stash to be an easy build- it turned to be quite troublesome but the finished result isn't too bad.
Chance Vought F4U-7 Corsair 133708 of Aeronavale flottille 14F based on the Carrier Arromanches (ex HMS collosus) Suez, 1954.

David.

Post by **JohnRatzenberger** » August 23rd, 2015, 5:02 pm

Excellent work, David - it's a real eye-pleaser !

Kitaholic · Post by **Kitaholic** » August 23rd, 2015, 5:09 pm

Great job. Love the -7 and you captured it well, nice save on the stripes too

TobyC · Post by **TobyC** » August 23rd, 2015, 5:46 pm

Excellent. The colours and markings make it come alive.

Clashcityrocker · Post by **Clashcityrocker** » August 24th, 2015, 4:40 am

Great scheme, looks very nice.

Nigel

Gadfly · Post by **Gadfly** » August 24th, 2015, 7:18 am

Looks great nice scheme..

cheers
GF

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