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Tamiya 1/48 F4U-1 Corsair


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then you were saying that you would like to reach my skills?????

are you kiddin????

Thanks Jack!

I'm getting the hang of my airbrush, but on this build I left out the resin control surfaces and PE from the Verlinden detail set. Not brave enough for those things yet I suppose!

Brew

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I made alot of progress over the past few days. I'm on the home stretch now!

Applied a good coat of future and took on the decals. I used Microset to get them in place, and a steady hand, Xacto knife, and Solvaset to get them snug in the panel lines.

I also did a simple wash of Tamiya black over the whole plane, I like my panel lines stark.

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However, I felt the decals were a little stark so I faded them a tad with Tamiya smoke at the same time that I did the exhaust staining.

After another coat of future to seal everything in, I let it cure and sprayed Polyscale flat. Flat coats are still my favorite step in the whole building process!

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I also ran into the same problem on the top of the headrest that I saw in the gear bays. I got the bays taken care of, so fixing the cockpit will be no big deal. Sure is an eyesore right now though! :whistle:

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For the lights I just use a 000 brush to paint them silver, then go back with the apprpriate clear color. After spraying the model with a flat coat I put a drop of future on each light.

This pic was taken before adding the drops of Future, I'll take some more detailed pics of everything once it's finished

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Tamiya Clear Red, Clear Orange, Clear Green

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