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This is going to be an 803 Squadron Corsair V off HMCS Magnificent circa 1948. The scheme will be the later Seafire XV scheme (essentially the same as the early Sea Fury Scheme)

The kit is the Hobby Boss 'Easy-Kit' F4U-4 in 1/72. I'd considered using their 1/48 'Late' F4U-4 since it already had the correct wingtips for an RCN Corsair (and incorrect for any production F4U-4), but I'm not paying $25 more than the Tamiya F4U-1 goes for.

Decals will come from Belcher Bits RCN sheet.

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HobbyBoss F4U-4 Corsair 1/72 by mawz_models, on Flickr

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  • 2 weeks later...

Assembly mostly complete

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HobbyBoss F4U-4 Corsair 1/72 by mawz_models, on Flickr

I've actually finished with the filler, but haven't taken a picture of that yet. Next step is to get the headrest & gunsight on, then deal with the canopy. Unusually for an Easy-build kit the canopy is rather nice and both closed and open options are offered. I'll be doing the closed option to hide the overly simple cockpit.

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Finally got around to painting this bird, I'd been scrambling to finish up another GB Build as well as polish off some builds I had languishing (I alsways seem to have 10 different builds under way at any given time).

I shot the scheme bass-ackwards, shooting the Dark Grey first to make masking simpler:

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HobbyBoss F4U-4 Corsair 1/72 by mawz_models, on Flickr

And then masked and shot the Light Grey. Once I peeled it, I noticed I needed a little touch up to the Dark Grey around the cockpit, so a bit of masking and then it was ready for glosscote:

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HobbyBoss F4U-4 Corsair 1/72 by mawz_models, on Flickr

I've since put the legs on and glosscoted. Decals going on after dinner, I'll be skipping the stencils (saving them for a non-WhIf), but all major markings will be in use.

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And she's done.

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HobbyBoss F4U-4 Corsair 1/72 by mawz_models, on Flickr

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HobbyBoss F4U-4 Corsair 1/72 by mawz_models, on Flickr

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HobbyBoss F4U-4 Corsair 1/72 by mawz_models, on Flickr

And on the shelf with some other Corsairs, including a real Canadian Corsair, X/115, as well as a P-39 hiding in the background.

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HobbyBoss F4U-4 Corsair 1/72 by mawz_models, on Flickr

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