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Prudenzio Contest - Vought F4U-4 Corsair LF11
Haven't had much time for building since my son was born last October, but thought this would be a good re-introduction. I'll enter with Prudenzio's Vought F4U-4 Corsair in the Marines Training Squadron LF11 livery. The page is printed out at stock size (looks close to 1/72 but couldn't get an accurate wingspan measurement on the page due to the gull wings) and has the first coat of a matte clear spray drying on it now. So for eye candy, here's a photo of the bird in question:
There we go, I'm committed now to a build (it's official once its posted lol). Hopefully I'll have the time to get thru a one-pager and build confidence again to dig back into the B-17 (and do it justice).
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i think they are about scale 1:60 well that is what the FW190 seems to be seems a bit smaller than the 1:50 MArek one i done and bigger than a 1;72 plastic one before
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It seems the scales are not consistent. There's someone who posted a P-51 build that was smaller than 1:72. Well we'll find out once its built I guess lol.
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I think that the old Corsair that I built was pretty close to 1/72. I don't have it anymore as the museum gift shop closed down and it was not returned.
Ryan
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Yea, I had printed out the wrong one so I slapped the upper left half of the wing together and measured it, doubled it, and added the center piece and got 18.2cm which comes out to 1:68.7 scale. Close enough for me to display the bird in with my 1:72 collection.
Onward (and upward)!
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We have to have at least one F4U in the contest so that one of the old timers can at some point say that it looks like a Corsair.
The training squadron markings look really good. Looking forward to hearing about your experience in building this one. Don |
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Off to a slow start, but a start nonetheless.
Page printed and spray sealed: Fuselage formed. I'm trying this model with the intended build style - mating tabs on the joints. Its a little different than traditional one-sided tabs or joining strips, but it did result in a perfectly straight fuselage without even the slightest indication of it wanting to twist or banana. It'll be interesting trying the same style on wings, but we'll see how it goes.
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Don't worry there is going to be a second corsair in the contest. I got one printed out ready to go. so what you sealing them with I just use some cheap hairspray. I don't need hairspray for anything else
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Ok so I've been delayed in updating the thread here, but I have been making slow progress. Here are some updates:
First the wing construction. I've decided to build this plane stock, with all the face-to-face tabs. For the wing, it actually does a nice job generating the proper compound shape: The bottom of the wing had the opposing tabs, but the top is just single overlapping tabs. The resulting shape is a little exaggerated on the dihedral of the outer wing sections, but goes together nicely and matches the feel of the model:
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