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

[jetfool]

Awesome! Looks great Dan

[beatlerat]

Can anyone point me in the direction for instructions on applying the decals for this model? Thanks!

[jetfool]

Beatlerat,
My Birdcage Corsair came with the decals already installed. During my repaint/ modifications I removed them and installed Callie Graphics. Did yours come pre-applied or are you adding new ones? I used my documentation to locate my new decals. Do you have the Bubbletop or the Birdcage Corsair? What model are you making yours into. Many here can help you on applying these.

Best Regards, Rex

[beatlerat]

Beatlerat,
My Birdcage Corsair came with the decals already installed. During my repaint/ modifications I removed them and installed Callie Graphics. Did yours come pre-applied or are you adding new ones? I used my documentation to locate my new decals. Do you have the Bubbletop or the Birdcage Corsair? What model are you making yours into. Many here can help you on applying these.

Best Regards, Rex

Rex,
Thanks for your reply. I have the aircraft below. I purchased the plane from a fellow flier, and it did not have decals. I purchased these decals from Motion RC. I have included a pic of the fuse as well.

[jetfool]

Beatlerat,
You have the F4U-1D Bubbletop Corsair. I will check my original instructions tomorrow and see if they show a placement for the decals. You will love this plane and many others on here are flying your version. Ask any questions you might have in setting this plane up and you will get plenty of support. This is a great site and welcome.

Best Regards, Rex

[davegee]

Hi Dan: Through the night, I was able to print up the 7 parts of the cockpit while I slept. This morning, it was shades of running into the livingroom to see what Santa had left me! Instead of a lump of coal, which he was usually wont to do at my house (LOL) all 7 parts had come out pretty well, neatly stacked around the build plate. First time I did so many parts simultaneously, and this time it worked out great!

So, I'll bring those parts over this morning, as well as the strut scissors parts for the Corsair, and the control stick. I think you'll find the control stick will fit into the pilot's hand, just as Elbee had desgined it, a hand-in-glove operation.

I'm now printing V1 demo version of Spittie pilot per Grueter. It's just a WAG (Wild Ass Guess) but I should be in the neighborhood for size for this first attempt, I'm hoping. I can then refine the size a bit so that to get the perfect fit for our airplanes. We can do further experiments after this project for possible replacement pilots for the P-47s and P-51s.

See you later this morning around 9:30-10 am.

BTW, I like the pic of the pilot in the Corsair showing the headset cords. I guessed that the marines and navy had a similar setup as their AAF brethren were using in their fighters, and I'm glad to see that my idea is confirmed in this photo. That's how I set up my Corsair pilot.

Cheers

Davegee

[Grossman56]

Great to see you this morning Dave and thanks again for the parts!
It'll be interesting to see what the little guy looks like. I was looking at the Spitty parts and if I recall correctly, the oxygen tanks were on the port side, I'll have to look back through the thread to confirm.
I found this site way back when and WOW if you want to sit in a Spitty cockpit, check it out!

Supermarine Spitfire Mark IX Cockpit Interactve Panorama

Grossman56
(Dangerous Dan)

[davegee]

Great to see you this morning Dave and thanks again for the parts!
It'll be interesting to see what the little guy looks like. I was looking at the Spitty parts and if I recall correctly, the oxygen tanks were on the port side, I'll have to look back through the thread to confirm.
I found this site way back when and WOW if you want to sit in a Spitty cockpit, check it out!

Supermarine Spitfire Mark IX Cockpit Interactve Panorama

Grossman56
(Dangerous Dan)

I think we made some real headway with these 3D printed parts. If you can figure out the positioning of all the cockpit parts that I dropped off and take a picture of how they look in the cockpit, that would be very helpful to me. I think Elbee made a picture of his setup, but I don't know where I saw it. I need the positioning of these parts to determine where the pilot should go, especially the full bodied one.

Thanks for the info on the sidewalls. I'll be printing up my own set of parts probably to run overnight and have them in the morning.

What do you think about putting instruments on the back of the control panel. The Brits had very different looking instruments. Does Elbee had a paper printout that could be glued onto the back of the control panel? We need something like that, for sure.

Cheers

davegee

[Grossman56]

Got it handled, Dave. Callie has the instrument panels and I just ordered both of us one.

Grossman56
(Dangerous Dan)

[davegee]

Got it handled, Dave. Callie has the instrument panels and I just ordered both of us one.

Grossman56
(Dangerous Dan)

Excellent!

Thanks!

davegee

[jetfool]

I'm jealous that you two have each other in the same town to brainstorm together. Not really, glad to see both enjoying your hobby.
Rex

[davegee]

I'm jealous that you two have each other in the same town to brainstorm together. Not really, glad to see both enjoying your hobby.
Rex

Dan and I joke that we're the only scale warbird nuts in these parts. All the others seem to like the 3D flying stuff.

Davegee

[jetfool]

Dave,
Our club members are mostly Timbers, sailplanes, auto gyros, umx. Couple of us fly scale and my test pilot flys heli, jets scale and everything else like the pros fly. In his forty's and his reflexes are great. Oh,
to be young again!
Today I sprayed the white stripes and it came out great. I have some touch- up/over spray to fix.
I used the measurements and scaled to 1 1/2" but the cowl stripe looks too wide, 3" for scale size. What do you guys think

[davegee]

Hi Rex: I just looked at one of my airplanes, I Wanted Wings. I made a cowl stripe of a constant one (1) inch around the front of the fuselage, going backwards from where the plastic nose cowl mounts onto the airplane. I painted all the plastic nose cowl red (or white, per the particular airplane). One issue I guess, for me is that the plastic nose cowl piece angles quite a bit to allow the prop and motor to have the proper right thrust for these model airplanes to fly properly. Obviously, the real planes did not have this. That might account for the perception that from some angles the cowl stripe with that plastic cowl piece attached looks too wide? Not sure. From your photos, it seems about right to me and looking at my planes that I have painted up similarly.

For these planes, I have found using a constant one (1) inch cowl stripe starting just aft of where the the plastic cowl piece fits on the fuse and then painting the entire plastic nose cowl piece red or white, seems to me to be a good compromise for the angled plastic cowl piece for right thrust considerations. It might be just a bit wonky due to this, but either I have gotten used to it, or it looks fine like that, to me.

The tail stripes look good to me from what I can see in the pictures.

Davegee

[Grossman56]

Looking good Rex, remember, any help I can give you, just let me know.
BTW, I got the bushings installed. I had to hone out the tip with a Dremel, but they slid on perfectly after that. I used two of your spacers to center the wheel, installed the bushing, then slide the axle through the wheel and used a locking collar to stabilize the whole thing. Then into the strut and it works flawlessly! Thanks so much!

Grossman56
(Dangerous Dan)

[Grossman56]

BTW, I was just thinking about when I 'Papa Dotted' the Corsair. As anyone who has checked out the riveting on the corsair has seen, some of the 'rivets' look bigger than the others, they're probably the 'lock down' things that I can't remember the name of but dealt with them on the DC3. The more 'dotting' I did the better I got and when dealing with the larger 'rivets' I'd make a hole with the pen I was using then insert a small Allan Key with the rounded end into the hole and give it a half twist or so to make a more scale like look.

[jetfool]

Davegee,
I noticed the angle of the nose and figured they did it for the motor down thrust. From pictures my stripe looks too far past from the cowl hinge if that makes sense. No problem to re do if I decide which is best. Sorry I put my pictures in the wrong post.

Dangerous,
Glad everything worked. I forgot to de-burr the axle hole, if I were you, I wouldn't pay that machine shop. LOL
If you need anything else just ask.
Elbee has a better scale 3d spinner hub for the Corsair. Are you guys using it?

Best Regards, Rex

[davegee]

Davegee,
I noticed the angle of the nose and figured they did it for the motor down thrust. From pictures my stripe looks too far past from the cowl hinge if that makes sense. No problem to re do if I decide which is best. Sorry I put my pictures in the wrong post.

Dangerous,
Glad everything worked. I forgot to de-burr the axle hole, if I were you, I wouldn't pay that machine shop. LOL
If you need anything else just ask.
Elbee has a better scale 3d spinner hub for the Corsair. Are you guys using it?

Best Regards, Rex

Hi Rex: I think it is probably a judgement call on your part how you find it looks to you, the builder. That's the only one who really counts. I'm happy with the way my models came out the way I did them with a constant one inch stripe on the front of the foam fuselage, and painting All of the plastic cowl piece on the forward end. There's no getting around the angled plastic cowl piece due to the necessity that they work in the right or down thrust to make a model airplane fly properly. With that required design part for model flying, you can't possibly have a uniform scaled down 24 inch cowl stripe as the real airplanes had. We just have to do the best we can with what we have to work with.

I haven't printed up the improved Elbee Corsair prop hub. I'm not all that familiar with it and have just have used the OEM hub for the past 5+ years that I have had this airplane. I'm not averse to looking into the idea of using it, it just hasn't been on my "radar" up to this point.

Davegee

[Grossman56]

Rex, Dave and I were looking for the STL files for the Corsair scissors, by any chance do you have it?

[jetfool]

Guys, hopefully this is what you need strutmod - Copy (2).zip strutmod.zip
I might have sent the files twice. Me and computers, UGH!