{"id":756,"date":"2012-04-15T18:33:23","date_gmt":"2012-04-15T23:33:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/devinjpoore.com\/?p=756"},"modified":"2012-04-27T14:58:31","modified_gmt":"2012-04-27T19:58:31","slug":"f4u-1-corsair-new-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devinjpoore.com\/?p=756","title":{"rendered":"F4U-1 Corsair: New Project!"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>After finishing the Viper <\/a>last week and another ship that I’ll post photos of this coming week, I wanted to start something that I could build as quick as possible.\u00c2\u00a0 I’ve had this Tamiya 1\/48th scale F4U-1 Corsair sitting in the on-deck circle of the kit storage shelf for years.\u00c2\u00a0 The kit’s reputation is that one can open the box, put in some glue, shake said box, and out pops a built model.\u00c2\u00a0 Just what I need to cleanse my palette and get ready for whatever’s next.<\/p>\n

Besides a quick fun build, there are two other reasons I chose this kit to build now.\u00c2\u00a0 One is that the Corsair has been my favorite aircraft since I was a child.\u00c2\u00a0 With my father being a pilot and into warbirds since I can remember, he and I skipped the usual “my sports team is better than your sports team” discussion that most fathers and sons have, and instead we hotly debated which was better: the Corsair, or the P-51 Mustang (his favorite).<\/p>\n

The second reason I started the build is for practice.\u00c2\u00a0 I’ve been putting off building my favorite models for a decade now, because I wanted to get better so that I could do them justice.\u00c2\u00a0 I’m not getting any younger.\u00c2\u00a0 It’s time to build (and do) what I love and stop with the putting off of things.\u00c2\u00a0 The Corsair is the first, next will be the aircraft of USS Yorktown’s airgroup: the F4F Wildcat, the SBD Dauntless, and the TBD Devastator.\u00c2\u00a0 I’ll be using the same build procedures, tools, and paint colors on the Corsair as I’ll need for those other aircraft.\u00c2\u00a0 And I guess there’s also the reason that I haven’t built a U-Bird since I was in junior high.\u00c2\u00a0 It’s time.<\/p>\n

I started this build last Sunday, April 7th, at 6 p.m. The first photo (at the top of the post) showing the parts still on the sprue was taken four hours later.\u00c2\u00a0 I’ve airbrushed all of the interior components either interior green, zinc chromate yellow primer, or salmon primer, depending on what they called for.\u00c2\u00a0 One could honestly shoot everything interior green and be done with it, but I wanted to play around with different colors, and these are still all historically accurate.<\/p>\n\n\t\t