Time to do another big plastic project. I will start this in earnest as soon as I complete the road repair job on the layout. I got them painted with one coat today and will finish them by the end of the week.
I've been eyeing several big planes to do as a follow-on to the TBM. I'm interested in this one, the Tamiya Corsair, which had great reviews as living up to Tamiya standards of engineering perfection. The others were Tamiya or HK's model of the Mosquito, SWS' model of the A1-H Skyraider, and Tamiya or SWS' P-51. All of these are beautiful, big models with tons of the stuff I like…details, details, details.
I got paid for part 1 of my magazine article on the distillery and wanted to buy me something. My favorite hobby shop, Scale Reproductions, was having their anniversary sale and giving good deals so I went to look around. None of the models on my hit list were on display, so I was talking with the Brian Burger, the proprietor about putting an order in for one. When I mentioned the Corsair he said that he just got in two; one for a special order and one for stock. They hadn't even been put into stock yet and weren't priced. He gave me the sale price (under $140) which was decent and I bought it.
To got along with this, I've had the Corsair book by Fredrick Johnson for years. It was originally to support the build of a TopFlite Corsair RC kit that I was to build for a friend, but it didn't happen.
The book has some wonderful drawing by Rikyu Watanabe showing some very nice details of things I would need to detail areas like the wing-fold. I can't really comfortably display 1:32 planes, but can with the wings folded, like i was a hangar deck or something.
And then there's this great drawing of the cockpit which really shows off the coloration including the leather padding on the top of the instrument panel and the gun sight projector.
I have to buy some color for the exterior. This is an early version Corsair and is a 3-tone color scheme: Navy blue, medium blue and white bottom. Tamiya doesn't make jar colors for these, but makes spray colors. I'd rather paint it with the airbrush and therefore need bottle paints. Life Color has them as does Vallejo. I like how Life Colors dries. Vellejo flashes off pretty quickly, but doesn't really dry for at least 24 hours. Life Color, like Tamiya does dry completely too the touch much faster.
I'm also wondering if I should get some aftermarket for it. The model comes with some minimal PE including inlet vents and seat belts. As for the engine, missing are spark plug wires, but I'd rather wire them using wire and little pieces of Albion micro brass tubing. Eduard makes some sets for it, but the Tamiya molding is so fine, I'm just not sure how much better it will look. Thoughts?
I've been eyeing several big planes to do as a follow-on to the TBM. I'm interested in this one, the Tamiya Corsair, which had great reviews as living up to Tamiya standards of engineering perfection. The others were Tamiya or HK's model of the Mosquito, SWS' model of the A1-H Skyraider, and Tamiya or SWS' P-51. All of these are beautiful, big models with tons of the stuff I like…details, details, details.
I got paid for part 1 of my magazine article on the distillery and wanted to buy me something. My favorite hobby shop, Scale Reproductions, was having their anniversary sale and giving good deals so I went to look around. None of the models on my hit list were on display, so I was talking with the Brian Burger, the proprietor about putting an order in for one. When I mentioned the Corsair he said that he just got in two; one for a special order and one for stock. They hadn't even been put into stock yet and weren't priced. He gave me the sale price (under $140) which was decent and I bought it.
To got along with this, I've had the Corsair book by Fredrick Johnson for years. It was originally to support the build of a TopFlite Corsair RC kit that I was to build for a friend, but it didn't happen.
The book has some wonderful drawing by Rikyu Watanabe showing some very nice details of things I would need to detail areas like the wing-fold. I can't really comfortably display 1:32 planes, but can with the wings folded, like i was a hangar deck or something.
And then there's this great drawing of the cockpit which really shows off the coloration including the leather padding on the top of the instrument panel and the gun sight projector.
I have to buy some color for the exterior. This is an early version Corsair and is a 3-tone color scheme: Navy blue, medium blue and white bottom. Tamiya doesn't make jar colors for these, but makes spray colors. I'd rather paint it with the airbrush and therefore need bottle paints. Life Color has them as does Vallejo. I like how Life Colors dries. Vellejo flashes off pretty quickly, but doesn't really dry for at least 24 hours. Life Color, like Tamiya does dry completely too the touch much faster.
I'm also wondering if I should get some aftermarket for it. The model comes with some minimal PE including inlet vents and seat belts. As for the engine, missing are spark plug wires, but I'd rather wire them using wire and little pieces of Albion micro brass tubing. Eduard makes some sets for it, but the Tamiya molding is so fine, I'm just not sure how much better it will look. Thoughts?
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