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Revell / Italeri
F4U-5 Corsair


05.07.2001

I build the Cockpit out of the box, just painted and drybrushed it with a light grey.
This took me about 1.5 hours.

Cockpit der F4U-5 Cockpit der F4U-5

As the Kit based on the "wrong" Italeri Night Figter, the glare shields of the exausts are wrong on an F4U-4B or an F4U-5.
So I removed them and engraved the panel line new.


The glare protection

You can see the changes in the picture.


06.07.2001

Painting the engine.
The kit engine is verry rare on details, so you should use an aftermarked one"


Black painted and drybrushed with silver The result The gear cover painted grey 2. Step 3. Step

The Oilcoolers glued and painted back.
The pitot tube was removed to ease the sanding of the leading edge.
The Cockpit and Engine mount where glued into the fuselage.


The Oilcooler wehere painted black... ...and then drybrushed with light grey and FS 15042 Removing the pitot tube... ...to ease the sanding of the leading edge The Cockpit in the fuselage

To see if more sanding is necessary, I painted these areas

The fuselage bevore sanding Fuselage and Wimgs mounted together

The glue must set till tomorow.



10.07.2001

The leading edge Wing/fuselage joint The gab on the oposite side is bigger width= The lower surface

Here you see the mounted Wings.
The shine is from my glue (Metylenchlorid).

The removed area 1. Step, superglue clear plastik Roughly sanded Ploshing with the file to shine

I donīt like painted position lights, so I made them by my own.

The horizontal stabilizers The shortened fitīs better

Mounting the horizontal stabilizers.

Open the gun barrel Shi..... the barrels are from the Night Fighter OK, I make them new Looks great! Or?

The 20mm Kanonīs are those used on the Night Fighter.....ok, reconstruction!!!.

1. Step Black..... Closeup of the Cockpit ...2. Step Sea Blue I am blue.....

Painting the upper surface!
First Black, then FS 15042 Sea Blue.
The Canopy was not masked on purpose.


11.07.2001

Stupid! I discoverd an not well worked seam!!!
Removing the paint and sand again. GRRRR......


With flashlight Daylaight The seam Again Airbrushed The drilled out MG The rocket stubs on the lower surface

The second pic should show the difference betwen daylight and flashlight.



12.07.2001

Today I worked on the "feet" of the Modell.
I could not hold back, I had to make a hydaulic wire


The landing gear The stretched sprue for the hydraulic wirre Fitting the L/G

The Gear was painted and drybrushed with a mix of Sea Blue and a light Grey.


The lef weel befor, the right after drybrusing The well covers Main weel well cover

The result of the Drybrushing.



13.07.2001

Today I added only some weathering.



Beginning with the port side, I airbrushed the exhaust staining.



14.07.2001


I used brass rod to mount the propeller for a smooth running.



Ironicaly a drop of superglue runn into the rod and jammed it (the pic in the middle).
As I spined the propeller the Modell overturns and disapear from the workbensh and made an almost perfect tre pint touchdown on the floor.
Luckily only minor damage was the result.
Equiped with a new steel Pitot tube and reglued Landing gear the modell was repaired in a vew minutes.



You can see the new Pitot tube top left.



Some "Impressions" of the Modell



As we coukld not get the Future Stuff here in Germany, I used "Erdal Glänzer".
This is used in the same way as Future, and it worked well.
Here is the bottle, so you could see for what you have looking for.


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