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

[jetfool]

Great job Dan! Your going to have a beautiful replica when finished.

Best Regards, Rex

[Elbee]

The new and improved: Before and after:....Got to check with my friend Elbee to see what it was he used on his.
Elbee??Grossman56(Dangerous Dan)

Danger, Which markings are you citing? Best, Elbee

[Grossman56]

The 3DP side panels, seat and armor plate in yours are great, that's what I'd prefer. Where can I get them??

Grossman56
(Dangerous Dan)

[Elbee]

Danger, let me think on that. Steve

[Grossman56]

Great job Dan! Your going to have a beautiful replica when finished.

Best Regards, Rex

Thanks Rex, I just keep plugging away. So many things I'd like to have on her, like the scissor legs that fit over the retracts, the wheel brakes and on and on and on. Do these projects really ever end??

Grossman56
(Dangerous Dan)

[Aros]

Good work Dan, she's coming along!

[Grossman56]

Thanks Todd!

[f4u ausie]

Wow don't small changes make a huge difference.. looking awesome so far dangerous.
The fabulous f4u. Lives again and again I do like the colours of the birdcage .. and the weathering. Really pops

[Grossman56]

It's a great surface to work on, with both metal and fabric. As Elbee mentioned when he was weathering his, there's so many color (colour in Canada as well, I have to keep reminding myself I'm an American now so drop the 'u'!) variations. Look at a car that's been weathered, it's very pearlescent, black becomes blue for instance. Pull one of the primary colors out of the color you're looking at and you have the two left over primaries to weather with as well as black and white. (Primarys are red, blue and yellow, red and blue make purple, blue and yellow make green, yellow and red make orange etc)
BTW, the workable fixative leaves a great flat finish as well.

Grossman56
(Dangerous Dan)

[Grossman56]

Decals ordered, thanks Callie!

[Grossman56]

Well, the decals are on their way as well as the Robarts, did some preliminary painting on the instrument panel as well as some more weathering, its a long process as we all know.





Port wing looks pretty good so far, time to get the starboard side caught up. Fortunately, I have some time off at Thanksgiving. I've been looking at pics of pilots and maintenance men how they stood where they stood to give me an idea where they may have worn through the paint down to the metal.

Grossman56
(Dangerous Dan)

[Elbee]

Grossman56,

Just love the weathering, walkways, and step/no step lines.

Simply, great work, Dan.

Best, Steve

[jetfool]

Coming to life, Dan. Looking great.

Wife wants new dining room chairs for X-MAS but only if I order a new plane to equal $ amount. What to do? Which one? So many choices
Rex

[Elbee]

jetfool

Rex, I'm thinking you should get a Cessna Citation 10, but I don't know the cost of the new chairs. Best, Steve

[Hugh Wiedman]

jetfool

Rex, I'm thinking you should get a Cessna Citation 10, but I don't know the cost of the new chairs. Best, Steve

And we all know who'll happily pilot it for him! On your adventures stop by and pick me up, I'll bring the Micky De's so we can look like some other well known photos!

[Elbee]

I resemble that remark and yes, MC_EE DEES will do nicely. OTFL

[Grossman56]

I'm thinking up a way to duplicate the wear marks. Where the bare metal shows through, there is usually linear wear because there are one heck of a lot more rivets in the real McCoy. I'm thinking that a paint knife might work. I have to get some paint match sample cans so I'm taking DaveGees advice and going to Sherwin Williams this time. They're just around the corner anyway. Then its just a matter of waiting until the new tires and the decals show up. In the meantime, I have the panel lines on the tail section calling my name as well as weathering on the starboard wing. Once everything has arrived, I'll remove the wings and get busy on the fuse. There's a lot of square footage on this beast!


Notice the walkways are really no more than outlines on the birdcage with the wear along the inboard line as that's where pilots and mechanics started their climb to the cockpit or ended it. Also, note again that there is no rear radio mast the wire attaches to that circle just behind the canopy window. Wonder what that white circle at ten o'clock to the insignia on the fuse is? Looks almost like a light. Also, there is no indent panel in the flap, that came later, but since we all have the same wings, we also have the option of filling it in or not.

Here's the reason for the paint being worn down to the metal, palates WWII style:



Grossman56
(Dangerous Dan)

[f4u ausie]

Great old pics again danger.. keep em cumin..... im lovin flyin the jets ,, but the corsair still my fave to look at.. yours lookin awsome so far,,

[Elbee]

I'm thinking up a way to duplicate the wear marks. Where the bare metal shows through, there is usually linear wear....Notice the walkways are really no more than outlines on the birdcage with the wear along the inboard line as that's where pilots and mechanics started their climb....Here's the reason for the paint being worn down to the metal, palates WWII style:
Grossman56 (Dangerous Dan)

Danger, I started but didn't go too far doing something similar.

I used a "Metallic Silver" pencil by Prisma-Color I found at Hobby Lobby.

The lead is soft enough to mark on the foam, though go lightly as not to dent the surface.

The pencil allowed me to make fine straight lines.

I kept sharpening it every time I lost the point.

I used on the props, cowling, Leading Edges, and some panel lines, too.

Once I liked what I had, I gently sprayed it with gloss clear, then lightly buffed that with a 600 grit wet or dry when dry.

Pastels were the key to the tropical fading overall.

You are doing incredible work, Sir.

Bravo Zulu, Sir.

[Grossman56]

Thanks Elbee, I probably have that very same pencil as I have so many from my artist days, I'll have to check!

Grossman56
(Dangerous Dan)

[davegee]

Hi Dan: years ago I bought a small jar of aluminum powder, and find rubbing it in with a brush yields pretty good wear patterns like on the wings. I can bring my jar over sometime and you can try it and see what you think.
Davegee

[Grossman56]

Sounds good Dave, somewhere I have a jar of graphite powder that may be interesting to play with as well. I'll have to see if I can find it.

Grossman56
(Dangerous Dan)