JohnB

LOL Carl. Oh I dunno, those Quinta sets sure are nice! I appreciate the thought though.

Cockpit mostly done. I wanted to use a Quinta cockpit but was unable to find one available so I just used the kit plus Barracuda decals. This FG-1D is the a/c I plan to do. (Photo from Vol.2 of the F4U-1 Corsair by Dana Bell.)

No, just the -1D. I posted photos of the 2 I just ordered. Plus I set the Oscar aside for a bit so I can concentrate on the Corsair. I'll return to it in a little while.

LOL Frank. I thought about that! No problem though. I'm planning to do one of the schemes in the kit, yellow markings. Not that exact a/c but one in that squadron with 1 kill marking.

Way to go Frank! Love those Tamiya Corsairs!!!!

After all the hassle with the ZM '109 and the Hasegawa Oscar I decided I need a break! So, I'm going back to one of my old favorites which I have always enjoyed building. Good ol' Tamiya F4U-1D!!!!!! (As this was my last one in the stash I HAD to pick up a couple more on ebay, another -1D and a Birdcage.) Stay tuned Peanut Gallery!!!!!

Now you are talkin"!!!! It won't be nearly the PITA as the '109. I look forward to following along.

Undersides look good!

Coming along nicely Gaz.

Me too. I've finished decaling so next is a over coat with clear flat.

Very well said Peter! My feelings exactly.

Thank you Kevin!

No matter what anyone else says Peter I think the paint looks just fine.😐

Yes, a new bottle of primer next time.

Progress today.

Yes, it was the primer. It would lift off where there was no yellow paint.

After I posted those photos I decided to pull off as much paint as I could which was quite a bit more. I think the culprit was the Alclad Primer I used which was not a new bottle. I decided to ditch the old bottle of primer and I resprayed the wings with a Testor's MM gloss light gray. It appears to be fairly smooth so I'm going to let it sit over night and see what's what tomorrow. 🙄 ALWAYS SOMETHING.

Well here's a setback! I was in the process of masking off the yellow wing areas before painting the rest of the model. I needed to readjust the masking tape and when I pulled it off THIS happened. I wanted to test other areas to see if it was just a small isolated area but that was not the case. It's likely I can pull off a lot more if I try the rest of the yellow areas. This WON'T DO! It just might send this one to the SOD as the only way I figure I can remove all the yellow after using more tape on it is to try to clean it up with Q tips dipped in thinner which would then lead to screwing up some of the other primed areas. I'll probably give that a try and see how it goes but if it just makes things worse it's off to the SOD.

This one is going much faster than I anticipated when I started it! That's okay though as I want to get it out of the way for the '190A-8/2 kit which is supposed to deliver tomorrow.

I look forward to seeing it!!!

All primed! Painting soon.

I'm really looking forward to this one from HKM! Gonna be pricey but I'll just have to "bite the bullet" and get one. I see where Xtradecals will be releasing a very nice sheet for it plus there are already some canopy masks available. I expect we will see a lot of nice after market stuff. Oh my wallet!!!!! 🤪

It has surprised me with how well things fit and the simplicity of the kit. Of course, the real a/c was simple too! Someone over at Cybermodeler is reading my mind! Today they have the Oscar as their featured subject! LOL

LOL Phil! Thanks.

My 2 cents is the camo is soft edge sprayed like I did mine and most all mid to late war German a/c. Early war saw a lot of hard edge.