Official FlightLine F4U-1A Corsair 1600mm (63") Wingspan

[Grossman56]

Hey Rex and Steve, I'll PM you my e mail addy as well.

[Grossman56]

We had some e mail problems so I had to change my addy. In the process, I lost Daves addy so I just PM'ed him the new one. As soon as he sends me a message, I'll fire the files over to him.
Should be cool. BTW, they look better at the original size!

Grossman56
(Dangerous Dan)

[jetfool]

Dan,

Your skills are quite good. They don't look bad at all. If you do the Max Grueter pilot, you will probably enjoy it more in your Corsair. Elbee's pilot is outstanding. I need one for mine.

Happy Holiday, Rex

[davegee]

Sounds like a plane Dave.
Meanwhile, I've been doing some painting on my collection of "Porcelain Pete's


Still some more work to do as you can see, but useful tools to get some experience.

Grossman56
(Dangerous Dan)

If you buy the STLs from Max Grueter, once you send them over to me electronically by email or whatever, I think we are ready to try it out. Should be a lot of ability to position the arms, legs, head, etc., to whatever works best for any of these size airplanes. Elbee had a beautiful job making the pilot for his Corsair. I don't know if we can approach that or not, but it's Got to be better than the Porcelain Pete's or whatever else is available!

Cheers

Davegee

[Grossman56]

Sounds like a plane Dave.
Meanwhile, I've been doing some painting on my collection of "Porcelain Pete's


Still some more work to do as you can see, but useful tools to get some experience.

Grossman56
(Dangerous Dan)

[davegee]

Grossman56

Hello Danger,

You had commented some time back about how I had printed Max Grueter's WWII Navy/Marine Pilot.

I ran across a picture of the pilot before final mods.

I think I 'cut' the legs into more parts in Prusa Slicer than the original STLs.

I sized the upper body to look wide enough in the cockpit and sized the lower body to best fit the seat.

There is no real formula for this, I used seat width and then an overall height I needed to fit beneath the sliding canopy.

The Seat Height in the cockpit was my variable as the foam floor was fixed.

Leaning the pilot forward helped with a better fit and actual seating according to most reference pix I have.

I printed the pilot parts with 5% infill to save weight,

I had to carve and fit each piece a little to get arms/hands where I wanted those and used thick CA and epoxy putty to assemble/fill the parts.

Painted the all up weight was around 4 ounces for a full sized pilot, as I recall.

I hope this helps, but let me know if you have any other questions/comments.

Best, Steve

Hey Dan: If you want to purchase the files from Max Grueter, I'd be willing to try to print up a couple of pilots on my printer. Let me know if you want to give it a try. I think it would probably work.

Cheers, and Happy New Year!

Davegee

[jetfool]

Dan

I put that envelope in the hands of the postal worker in our main office, she weighed it, stamped and put it in there out bin. Go figure!
I will make some more and send to you later this week. Just need a little time to come down from the clouds after receiving my New Years present. LOL

Best Regards, Rex

[Grossman56]

Looking great, Dan!

Although I haven’t done it on my Marine Corsair yet, I think the best answer, as far as realism goes, is to remove it. It was 70 pounds of dead weight, and period photos show them removed for their island- based operations in the Pacific.

I was thinking that too. It wasn't until later in the war (post birdcage) that the Marines started serving on A/C carriers so it would make sense. They probably didn't even ship the planes with them, just hoisted them onto the carriers I would think.
Broke down and ordered the salt for the salt trick off Amazon, I'm still thinking of using it on the gear bays, paint them salmon and then Zinc Chromate over top of that using the salt. Will experiment on some cardboard first though.
As for the bushings, I checked the mail a few minutes ago and still nothing. How many Bordellos can there be between here and Indiana??

Grossman56
(Dangerous Dan)

[Elbee]

Grossman56

Hello Danger,

You had commented some time back about how I had printed Max Grueter's WWII Navy/Marine Pilot.

I ran across a picture of the pilot before final mods.

I think I 'cut' the legs into more parts in Prusa Slicer than the original STLs.

I sized the upper body to look wide enough in the cockpit and sized the lower body to best fit the seat.

There is no real formula for this, I used seat width and then an overall height I needed to fit beneath the sliding canopy.

The Seat Height in the cockpit was my variable as the foam floor was fixed.

Leaning the pilot forward helped with a better fit and actual seating according to most reference pix I have.

I printed the pilot parts with 5% infill to save weight,

I had to carve and fit each piece a little to get arms/hands where I wanted those and used thick CA and epoxy putty to assemble/fill the parts.

Painted the all up weight was around 4 ounces for a full sized pilot, as I recall.

I hope this helps, but let me know if you have any other questions/comments.

Best, Steve

[f4u ausie]

Congrats ellbe. Well deserved recognition steve.. harder U work luckier U get

[jetfool]

Dangerous Dan,
Fabulous!
Dan if you don't receive my package by Friday I'll make some more and send out. That Pony Express rider must have run into Indian trouble or found a good Bordello to get thru the holidays.

Best Regards, Rex

[davegee]

Looking great, Dan!

Although I haven’t done it on my Marine Corsair yet, I think the best answer, as far as realism goes, is to remove it. It was 70 pounds of dead weight, and period photos show them removed for their island- based operations in the Pacific.

[Grossman56]

Some pics of the tail wheel, to me it looks more authentic than the white, beside, I'll guarantee there was nothing on these birds that stayed white for very long



Now the question of the arrester hook, color, remove??

Grossman56
(Dangerous Dan)

[jetfool]

Da ngerous,

I love my MINWAX poly acrylic!

Yes, Our own Elbee in print. Congratulations!

Rex

[Grossman56]

Hmmm, looks a lot like Spar Varathane to me at a much higher price, see what you think?

https://deluxematerials.co.uk/collections/building-finishing-products/products/foam-finish-gloss

[Grossman56]

Got a bit of work done with the air brush, I painted the tail wheel hub and strut a dark black/navy blue combination as I've notice that only the factory fresh Corsairs seemed to have white hubs and white struts, probably from the exhaust I would guess. At any rate, it tends to look more authentic to my old mind. Did the same with the bearcat and it really added to the overall look.
Still kicking around the idea of what to do with the wheel wells, but I'll save that for when the bushings arrive.
BTW, got my 01/2025 edition of the AMA magazine and lo and behold, on page 48, there's Elbee's bird
It's always cool to see one of the gang get recognition al la cover of the Rolling Stone Congrats Elbee!!!!
Now, on page 63 there's a new-to-me product called 'Foam Finish to 'enhance and protect' foam airplanes. Anyone familiar with this??
Something new to try.

Grossman56
(Dangerous Dan)

[boomer108]

Merry Christmas to all the Squawkers and a Happy New Year!

[boomer108]

Thanks Rex, we're both on the mend, turns out its just a bug going around, no the dreaded C word
And a Merry Christmas to you as well as all my Squawk buddies, if I could have one Christmas wish granted, it would be to have a fly in with all of you. Nefi was soooo great for that, but man, it's a long way from home.


Grossman56
(Dangerous Dan)

I have the exact same Santa Claus and his airplane only in ceramic that my wife gave me a few years back. The prop spins and there is lights on the wings its one of my favorite decorations at Christmas. Too bad we are all over the country it would be nice to meet in person and go flying.Merry Christmas to all!

[davegee]

Dan,
What we need to do is plan to all meet (You, Me, Dave and Elbee) at the Nationals. Plenty of flying fields to fly on. We could sit around the fire like in Blazing Saddles and talk airplanes for a few days. Also, gives you a good excuse to the wife why you need an enclosed Trailor.

Rex

Good. I'll bring the beans to the campfire!!

davegee

[jetfool]

Dan,
What we need to do is plan to all meet (You, Me, Dave and Elbee) at the Nationals. Plenty of flying fields to fly on. We could sit around the fire like in Blazing Saddles and talk airplanes for a few days. Also, gives you a good excuse to the wife why you need an enclosed Trailor.

Rex