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I agree

Lol, you will spend a lot more time building that P-51A than the trumpeter P-47 with five times more parts! I still have an A in the stash, but I remember the many hours of filling and sanding that kit! Although it did turn out nice!

Good choice, I was always going to build mine as HV-B, “In the mood”.

I have a flock of hawks! I was working on attaching rear transparencies today, except for having to fill non-existant panel lines, they fit amazingly well.

Looks great John! Have you ever built one completely oepened up, panels off, engine exposed, grey matter accessory bay, gun bays open?

Looks great, but you need to separate the male and female Corsairs. Have you ever seen "The Trouble with Tribbles"?

After everyone went to bed, I finished up the last two wings and attached them. On to the small parts tomorrow, then a LOT of Mr Surfacer 500 work!

Two wings left to go! 5 done.

No tricks, it is bigger, I’m going to have to chuck it up in a drill and sand it.

Got 3 more fuselages buttoned up tonight, 3 more to go, then lots and lots of sanding seams.

More work, Mr Surfacer 500

sorry to hear that, take some time to sort out your thoughts, models are not that important.

These are all great builds!

I hope to replicate it too! I’m not sure if it was skill or luck, but I’m leaning heavily toward luck.

More progress, I actually got it finished to the point I can concentrate on sanding out some of the waves, then throw some primer on it. Excuse the still wet wash, and the nasty spray pattern, I realized too late I was using my Neo with a bent, clogged tip, not my Iwata.

You said it best, its all about having fun! Some of my favorites are out of the box, fun with paint and weathering type projects. The Ki84 one was my favorites, because I tried something new and it came out exactly as I imagined it would.

I have to say I love your FAMO + trailer, I just picked one up myself and cant wait to clear the P-40's off my bench and start on it! I am probably going to make mine in desert camo.

John, you should start a post and post a pic of each of your corsairs, I would love to see them all. boy, if Tamiya ever releases a F4U-4 or 5, they will make a mint off of you alone!

Grey matter conversion kit is giving me fits, pun intended. So far, my impression is lukewarm, even though at first glance it looks nice, I have found a lot of trimming, adjusting, sanding, shaping, and adjusting. To me, it seems like the molds are old and there are issues because of it, plus, it really needed some better alignment aids for the chopped up fuselage. Here is one big issue, when you cut the fuselage, it springs, the plastic warps and spreads out. The main nose piece is slightly out of square, so it take a lot of fine trimming, sanding, carving to make it line up close to right. Second, the shape of the resin nose is off, the Has fuselage is wider, therefore, you need to trim the center brace under the windshield, which also means sanding the windshield to fit. Another problem, since the fuselage sprung, all the dozen joints that need to line up within an inch of the forward wing root are all over the place, so I started by putting in three spreader bars, one before and after the cockpit at the bottom, a third across the lower inner cowl. Next glueing the Hasegawa “cheeks” to the nose plug, then gluing the center brace in. Next was the two upper and lower wing roots, then gluing the back wing to fuselage joint, then upper wing edge front the back, clamping the front three parts together in the root area. This is vastly complicated because to fit the grey matter conversion, you had to chop out sections of the wing and fuselage, so what was three pieces of plastic becomes many. Next is the front landing gear “knees” as I call them, then the gun covers. I spent three days doing all this, giving things time to fully cure, before moving to the next joint. I know that there are much worse resin conversions on the market, but there are also better. I have a Fisher kit that is simply perfect. With that said, I am glad I have an F/L version, but I don’t know if I would do another. My nose was out of square, the shape of the nose was off from where it joins the Hasegawa fuselage, and the carb duct underneath was wrong, I had to sand and shape it to look and fit better. Even looking at the pictures above, it Looks close, but with all the parts together, it’s significantly too long. With the Trumpeter P-40F coming, it might be time to retire this mold. however, at this point I’m committed, or need to be. More pics tomorrow.

Now that's a car! Hope you don't have any problems with the top mechanism. If you do, it might just be cheaper to set the car on fire.

More light, highest magnification, plus my bifocals. A little bit of blind luck and prayer helps. And when that don’t work, then a lot of swearing.

John, your finish is sooooo nice! Is that an enamel or acrylic MM?

one down, 13 more to go!

I tried cleaning up the seam a little, you can see the wavy gravy wonky seam, this K tail is not quite a disaster, but does require some work. After sanding, it straightened out pretty nice.

Well, it sounds like a good time to resurrect this thread! This little bastard went through a repaint before it was done, so I had to strip it all down and start over, all masks and HGW transfers, only decal is the one on the cowl. I finished it the night before IPMS this year, won first in category, and packed up all my modeling stuff for a move across country a few days later.