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Really nice work there Peter. Glad to hear everything is going along as it should.

Nice to hear there's a Tempest that'll have a working Sabre engine in it. And a nice start to your build.

This should be a good one to follow along with. Not many of these get built it seems. I think I've got this one in the stash. One of the Ki-45 kits anyways.

Sprue Brothers has the Infinity Vampire kit on sale again so I grabbed it this time. Hopefully will be here in a week or so. Maybe two.

This is a great book about the history of a particular airframe. There's also some good info on Corsairs in FAA service.

That's the one. Thanks Dennis!

Visually the biggest changes are the clipped wing tips. There's two different versions of them. I'll find the drawings of them and post those shortly. Another change was the FAA had three small vents installed on the fuselage. They found that CO would accumulate in the rear fuselage so these were installed to vent it. There's one on either side of the fuselage and a third underneath. The FAA also fitted a Sutton harness to the plane in place of the US belts. The Tamiya Corsair would probably be the best starting point. They had in fact planned an FAA release as some point. The dimples for the fuselage vents are moulded into the fuselage sides but the vents themselves aren't included. The Sutton harness is on the PE fret if you don't mind PE. The only thing not in the box is the clipped wing tips but it's an easy mod. Eaglecals makes several decal sheets for FAA Corsairs and Fundekals offered one at some point too.

Pete, that new cockpit is a huge improvement over the kit one. I've been wondering about what the Model Monkey stuff is like so thanks for sharing. Is the belly section from them as well or something that you made?

Ron, I got them from BNA World. https://www.bnamodelworld.com/military-vehicles-tanks-for-1:16-scale-montex-mon-k16004 Nice job on the bulkhead, I don't most folks will know it has the rong number of holes. AFV Modeler is coming out with some stuff for the kit too.

My vote is for RCAF Tiger Meet. If you need the decals I have them.

Looks great John. The RNZAF Corsairs really got beat in use. This give lots of opportunity fora weathered finish or something even more extreme like one that's half tricolor and half GSB.

Ok, time for an update. I received the Aires seats recently so I started on them. First up is the PE belts. As much as I generally don't like PE belts, the ones Aires include with their seats work for me. They have great surface detail and being unpainted brass, I can anneal them to make them fit. One set of belts almost done.

You're making fast work of the Kingfisher Neil. Great work too.

Rob, from what I recall the McLarens were done in a florescent red that when photographed or filmed would show up much darker. The decals in my Tamiya MP4/6 are florescent red as is the colour call outs for painting it. That being said, there are apparently a couple different shades that were used depending on the era.

A nice milestone. The 234 is a big plane that's for sure.

Great to see someone building one of these. I picked one up from my LHS as they had it one sale. I've ordered paint masks so I can do Tiger 131 when the time comes.

Great job there Rob. Arado certainly didn't make it easy for us modelers when they designed the 234 but it really looks stunning when you can pull it off. ZM have announced they're going to do a 234 kit so I might wait for that before I build another. It's not easy to find the Fly kit nowadays.

Great job Peter. The gear bays look fantastic. It's nice to see that the twin booms have a nice positive fit to the wings and tail. Took Tamiya to figure out a foolproof way to do it.

Hope that's not a Photochop!

That Panzerwagen has a hot rod vibe to it. I get the impression of a chopped top and the swept back tail just adds to the effect.

Great work on the cockpit Phil. The Red Fox panels look like a worthwhile investment.

Just catching up on this Ernie and you're really off to a flying start. Looking at your progress on the cockpit and all the individual parts you've already added, it makes me think that HpH is the anti Kotare. Where Kotare have simplified their cockpit in terms of the number of parts, HpH is using as many as they can. Whether it's mould limitations or philosophy or a bit of both, it's interesting to see the difference in approach. I'm still no the biggest fan of early war Japanese planes but I may just have to get one for the challenge of the build.

Nice job on one of the toughest parts of the build. Getting the IP in place cleanly is such a challenge but you've done a great job. You're making me want to do another 234 now.

Martin and I in the past have discussed a significant Corsair from a Canadian perspective which is Robert Hampton Grey's Corsair. Specifically the one he was flying that earned him posthumously the Victoria Cross. Any thoughts on that one? Carl

I bet John B looked at this pic and said "I need that kit for my stash!"