Just a small tip for you regarding the masking fluid. I'm a Watercolour Artist as well as a modeller, in watercolour before using any masking fluid we gently scrub our brush on a bar of soap before dipping into the fluid, this helps protect the brush bristles making the brush last longer. You may already know this, but I'm sure if not for you it maybe useful for others. Lovely build and props for the work on the tires that must have taken some time
Thank you very much :) I tried scribing them out first, but with the curve in the tire shape, I was having a hard time. So I think that adding styrene worked out really well, though it took a long time to complete :)
Corsair always one of my favorite aircraft. That was simply put an amazing build. Fun to watch all the detail you have put into this project. I too am a Sunward Hobby customer, being in the sticks and having free shipping on orders over $70.00 is a no brainer plus the staff are amazing.
Thank you very much Will, I've really had a fun time lately building the Corsair, and I'd like to add a few more into my collection. Especially some of the later versions :)
amazing job and your extreme commitment to detailing is inspiring... alas, I'm too lazy and always opt out for the easy way... (back to the internet to buy over-priced aftermarket parts) instead of just taking those chances. Well done! 🎉
My last project involved a whole ton of after market parts, so I think I was more in the mood with this project to scratch build. It was pretty fun, and I'd like to try more of that in the future :)
There's detailing... then there's superdetailing.. then we have superextraordinary detailed detailing... .. and then we have THIS!!!!! What can I say.... That is one 'eck of a good looking model!! :) I'm yet to build a Corsair in 1/48, but it looks like Tamiya is the one to go for.. unless Airfix makes one in the near future! ;) Thoroughly enjoyed this.. :) :)
Thank you so much Rob, I think that you will really be impressed with this kit when you get one. It would be nice to see a new one as well, apparently Airfix was going to make one in 1:24th scale, but when Tamiya came out with their kit, they decided to go with the Hellcat. Now I'm kind of wishing I had that one to detail up haha.
David R Lentz, Columbus, Ohio, USA (Thursday, 3 October, 2024) EDITED FOR CONTENT I keep watching your video. I years past had built this kit (that is a long story! :( SMH), with just some “pre-shading” along the crevices to suggest depth, indicate panel lines, etc., though little else for a plane newly arrived to the carrier. I painted it dark sea blue, with gloss on the horizontal surfaces, and the flat kind elsewhere; I also used this flat colour to convey vague hints of weathering, oil and fuel staining, etc. I had used Eduard’s photo-etch detail set, which had a hand crank (I had painted it red) immediately inside the windshield to roll back the sliding canopy, an instrument panel with the dials printed onto a transparency that I lit up from behind, the engine’s spark plug wiring (the obvious flatness of these leads seriously irritated me; I call this characteristic of PE “false three-dimensionality”), etc. I liked the tow tractor, too. I wish that I could have found a portion of a carrier’s flight deck in polystyrene or resin, a few of which to set together in a setting combining three or more of these kits of a tableau of preparations immediately prior to launch; fueling, arming ordinance, loading gun bays, etc. I quite like your measured explication of each step you make, your knowledgeability of model building, and of the aircraft that is your subject matter. At 6:30 in your video, you explain your efforts to add details to the open cowl flaps, wheel wells, and other elements of the facsimile in polystyrene, paint, adhesives, etc. I very much admire your efforts! What exactly are the vertical tabs to which you add springs fashioned of fine copper wire, please? I wish Eduard and other aftermarket companies would create a PE set to standardise this effort. I have seen other people’s efforts to make such changes, which look distinctively different in the finer details than yours. At round 7:20, you note that the relatively small size of the model constricts what is feasible in your struggles to enhance otherwise plain features. Often has that been my experience, too. I must ask if you have considered Tamiya’s 1:32nd-scale kits of the Chance Vought F4U Corsair USN/USMC Fighter series, the North American Aviation P-51 Mustang USAAF fighter series, etc.? (I so wish I could! I must take my modelling enjoyments vicariously.) 1 (Continued)
Amazing build!!!! It was a joy to watch your video. I was thinking, most of the pictures I have seen of Corsairs parked have their flaps up, not down. I have seen a video of Pappy Boyington climbing up onto his plane, with the flaps up! Actually, with the flaps up, it is easier to climb abord than with the flaps down. With the pilot installed, I can see where he might have lowered the flaps for take off. Most of the earlier Corsairs up to the D model, didn't have the cut out in the flaps, for the pilot to step onto . With the flaps up, it makes the trailing edge closer to the ground, about knee high, than with the flaps lowered, about waist high. And much more difficult to board the plane, especially with a parachute. Again, great build. I look forward to the next one!!!
Thank you very much, as for the flaps, with the last Corsiar that I built I built it with the flaps up and the wings down. So with this build I was curious to see what it would be like to build it with the wings up and the flaps down :)
A really nice build, even if it's not in RNZAF colours (guess where I'm from?🤔). The unmasking of your decal save was pretty nail biting, and an enjoyable watch, there's a few things I'll have to try when my F-4U1D hits the build stand.
Amazing work! Adding even more realism to an already excellent kit is both fun and in your case made it even better. BTW, what is that light blue tape you're using?, seems to have just the right amount of tackiness
Thank you very much. It's called Nichiban, it's a kabuki tape very similar to Tamiya, but it's thinner, and slightly less tack, but it only comes in 2 sizes.
Thanks Charles, I decanted the paint into a spare paint jar. I've created a video demonstrating how I did this here: ruclips.net/video/5LSCel4Ef7c/видео.html
Nice touch with the cowl flap mechanism! Really nice paint work, too, I like how subtle it came out. This was a really well done build and the extra detailing looks to have been worth the effort. I do have one question: why you pronounce it as “Corzair”? Is this a regional thing?
I think so too, I might do it again, but only if I can't find replacements. But it was really fun to try, I've had the idea to do this for a few years now, and I think the effect works.
@@rebelsatcloudnine I had never heard that pronunciation before! Beautiful work on the model! I am in awe! You are a master craftsman! Do you have more aircraft videos? I intended no offense by the way.
@@petepanozzo6854 It's all good, I just get this comment a lot :) Thank you very much, I've recently learned a better way of applying the masking fluid, so next time it will be more to scale. But I'd like to try it out again on something bigger like the Airfix Hellcat.
@@petepanozzo6854 its typically the British modellers that pronounce it that way. As he said, technically both are correct depending upon where you are. It does sound different though being spoken by someone without the British accent.
A _beginner?_ I know a young man on here who just slathers paint on his models to the point that his panel lines disappear. Then he applies expensive aftermarket decals over the sloppy paintwork with horrendous brush strokes. _That_ is a beginner. I try to encourage him to use paint thinner to become a better modeler, but as bad as his work is, I am not a condescending cretin like yourself.
Came back to watch this again now I'm painting one.
The blue layering is great.
Just a small tip for you regarding the masking fluid. I'm a Watercolour Artist as well as a modeller, in watercolour before using any masking fluid we gently scrub our brush on a bar of soap before dipping into the fluid, this helps protect the brush bristles making the brush last longer. You may already know this, but I'm sure if not for you it maybe useful for others. Lovely build and props for the work on the tires that must have taken some time
I thoroughly enjoyed watching this build. Thank you very much for sharing it with us.
Thank you for watching :)
Awesome job!
Awesome build.
Thanks Dario :)
Nice save with that decal. The mottling looks nice.
That was touch and go for a while there, I debated just making it silver chipped paint. But I'm glad I tried, it looks a lot nicer.
Thanks for sharing this build. Wheels adjustment you did was insane :). Cheers and happy modeling!
Thank you very much :) I tried scribing them out first, but with the curve in the tire shape, I was having a hard time. So I think that adding styrene worked out really well, though it took a long time to complete :)
Corsair always one of my favorite aircraft. That was simply put an amazing build. Fun to watch all the detail you have put into this project. I too am a Sunward Hobby customer, being in the sticks and having free shipping on orders over $70.00 is a no brainer plus the staff are amazing.
Thank you very much Will, I've really had a fun time lately building the Corsair, and I'd like to add a few more into my collection. Especially some of the later versions :)
Nice job. I love how you handled the tread on the wheels. Some of the chips look a little odd but overall a terrific job.
amazing job and your extreme commitment to detailing is inspiring... alas, I'm too lazy and always opt out for the easy way... (back to the internet to buy over-priced aftermarket parts) instead of just taking those chances. Well done! 🎉
My last project involved a whole ton of after market parts, so I think I was more in the mood with this project to scratch build. It was pretty fun, and I'd like to try more of that in the future :)
Great stuff man!! Really enjoyed the extra detail you added.
Thanks Luis, I had a lot of fun adding in those details :)
That just so amazing. I love it.
Awesome model. Nice work. 👍
Thanks Charlie :)
Well done!
There's detailing... then there's superdetailing.. then we have superextraordinary detailed detailing...
.. and then we have THIS!!!!! What can I say.... That is one 'eck of a good looking model!! :) I'm yet to build a Corsair in 1/48, but it looks like Tamiya is the one to go for.. unless Airfix makes one in the near future! ;) Thoroughly enjoyed this.. :) :)
Thank you so much Rob, I think that you will really be impressed with this kit when you get one. It would be nice to see a new one as well, apparently Airfix was going to make one in 1:24th scale, but when Tamiya came out with their kit, they decided to go with the Hellcat. Now I'm kind of wishing I had that one to detail up haha.
David R Lentz, Columbus, Ohio, USA (Thursday, 3 October, 2024)
EDITED FOR CONTENT
I keep watching your video. I years past had built this kit (that is a long story! :( SMH), with just some “pre-shading” along the crevices to suggest depth, indicate panel lines, etc., though little else for a plane newly arrived to the carrier. I painted it dark sea blue, with gloss on the horizontal surfaces, and the flat kind elsewhere; I also used this flat colour to convey vague hints of weathering, oil and fuel staining, etc. I had used Eduard’s photo-etch detail set, which had a hand crank (I had painted it red) immediately inside the windshield to roll back the sliding canopy, an instrument panel with the dials printed onto a transparency that I lit up from behind, the engine’s spark plug wiring (the obvious flatness of these leads seriously irritated me; I call this characteristic of PE “false three-dimensionality”), etc.
I liked the tow tractor, too. I wish that I could have found a portion of a carrier’s flight deck in polystyrene or resin, a few of which to set together in a setting combining three or more of these kits of a tableau of preparations immediately prior to launch; fueling, arming ordinance, loading gun bays, etc.
I quite like your measured explication of each step you make, your knowledgeability of model building, and of the aircraft that is your subject matter.
At 6:30 in your video, you explain your efforts to add details to the open cowl flaps, wheel wells, and other elements of the facsimile in polystyrene, paint, adhesives, etc. I very much admire your efforts! What exactly are the vertical tabs to which you add springs fashioned of fine copper wire, please? I wish Eduard and other aftermarket companies would create a PE set to standardise this effort. I have seen other people’s efforts to make such changes, which look distinctively different in the finer details than yours.
At round 7:20, you note that the relatively small size of the model constricts what is feasible in your struggles to enhance otherwise plain features. Often has that been my experience, too. I must ask if you have considered Tamiya’s 1:32nd-scale kits of the Chance Vought F4U Corsair USN/USMC Fighter series, the North American Aviation P-51 Mustang USAAF fighter series, etc.? (I so wish I could! I must take my modelling enjoyments vicariously.)
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Fantastic build , can I ask if heating small rods , and placing it on the tyre to get small indent , work to give you tread effect
That's a good idea, and I think that could have worked quite well.
Amazing build!!!! It was a joy to watch your video. I was thinking, most of the pictures I have seen of Corsairs parked have their flaps up, not down. I have seen a video of Pappy Boyington climbing up onto his plane, with the flaps up! Actually, with the flaps up, it is easier to climb abord than with the flaps down. With the pilot installed, I can see where he might have lowered the flaps for take off. Most of the earlier Corsairs up to the D model, didn't have the cut out in the flaps, for the pilot to step onto . With the flaps up, it makes the trailing edge closer to the ground, about knee high, than with the flaps lowered, about waist high. And much more difficult to board the plane, especially with a parachute. Again, great build. I look forward to the next one!!!
Thank you very much, as for the flaps, with the last Corsiar that I built I built it with the flaps up and the wings down. So with this build I was curious to see what it would be like to build it with the wings up and the flaps down :)
Great build very creative ! I use Sunward Hobbies ever since my return to modeling awesome place ✌Canada🤞
They are a really excellent hobby store, I'm excited to see them continue to expand :)
A really nice build, even if it's not in RNZAF colours (guess where I'm from?🤔). The unmasking of your decal save was pretty nail biting, and an enjoyable watch, there's a few things I'll have to try when my F-4U1D hits the build stand.
I'd like to build one in a RNZAF some day, maybe a good excuse to get the 1:32nd scale kit :)
Amazing work! Adding even more realism to an already excellent kit is both fun and in your case made it even better. BTW, what is that light blue tape you're using?, seems to have just the right amount of tackiness
Thank you very much. It's called Nichiban, it's a kabuki tape very similar to Tamiya, but it's thinner, and slightly less tack, but it only comes in 2 sizes.
Aghh I didnt get the notification for this vid! Nice work.
Really nice build, can I just ask how you sprayed Tamiya AS paints out of your airbrush?
Thanks Charles, I decanted the paint into a spare paint jar. I've created a video demonstrating how I did this here: ruclips.net/video/5LSCel4Ef7c/видео.html
I'm planning a F4U-iD build for Robert Hampton Grey VC, FAA.
Nice touch with the cowl flap mechanism! Really nice paint work, too, I like how subtle it came out.
This was a really well done build and the extra detailing looks to have been worth the effort.
I do have one question: why you pronounce it as “Corzair”? Is this a regional thing?
I didn't realize I was doing that, so likely just a me thing.
How many hours does IT take yOu to make this model excluding drying time?
Is it possible to fold down the wings?
Sadly no, it's either up or down.
WOW!!!!
Impressive build! I think i would go with true details wheels though lol. That looks like too much work on the treads.
I think so too, I might do it again, but only if I can't find replacements. But it was really fun to try, I've had the idea to do this for a few years now, and I think the effect works.
Brilliant
Hey bro i am also working on a Corsair from hobby-boss
Cheers from Switzerland 🍻
awesome
Mano ese e o meu avião favorito
“Deckles” lol Dee cals 😂
Actually both are correct and it depends on where the word is being used linguistically. I am from Canada ergo I decal.
@@rebelsatcloudnine I had never heard that pronunciation before! Beautiful work on the model! I am in awe! You are a master craftsman! Do you have more aircraft videos? I intended no offense by the way.
@@petepanozzo6854 It's all good, I just get this comment a lot :) Thank you very much, I've recently learned a better way of applying the masking fluid, so next time it will be more to scale. But I'd like to try it out again on something bigger like the Airfix Hellcat.
@@petepanozzo6854 its typically the British modellers that pronounce it that way. As he said, technically both are correct depending upon where you are. It does sound different though being spoken by someone without the British accent.
Definition of insanity? Putting your own tire threads
I’ve never heard decals pronounced as
“ deckles “.
It’s pronounced “ DEE-Cowls “.
Actually both are correct and it depends on where the word is being used linguistically. I am from Canada ergo I decal.
No it's not lol! Deck-als all the way!
Nice build, but for me you've overdone the chipping and weathering. Just saying...
you are a masochist
Only when it comes to modeling.
Needs more work on the weathering to fade down the blue with oil paints , dose not look natural you plane .looks like it was made a beginner
Are you commenting on the right video?
upload some work/videos/pictures of your recent builds and lets have a look at your astounding and professional looking "realistic" models
A _beginner?_ I know a young man on here who just slathers paint on his models to the point that his panel lines disappear. Then he applies expensive aftermarket decals over the sloppy paintwork with horrendous brush strokes. _That_ is a beginner. I try to encourage him to use paint thinner to become a better modeler, but as bad as his work is, I am not a condescending cretin like yourself.
That might be so Paul, but at least I know which direction the exhaust stains go on a Corsair.
Wow - your comment needs more fading.
Such a beginner comment.
Awesome job!