Thanks for the opportunity to earn your Birdcage business, Handyman220! You're right, we designed the mid section of the fuselage to be modular at the factory. The canopy and some of the foam area aft of the canopy are different between the two variants.
Sharp eyed scale nuts can point to other variations, such as antenna placement, the existence of the belly window, etc. In all, there were also field modifications and variations from the different factories producing the real Corsair that obscure what is "strictly scale" for a given variant. In fact, even the monikers -A and -D aren't necessarily period accurate. For example the "-A" moniker was a designation used after WWII, not during it as our chosen -A liveries depict. And technically, the -A used Hamilton's 6501A-0 prop, not the later 6541A-0 that the -D used (which is the prop we're using for both our Corsairs, for aerodynamic purposes). The 6501A-0 has a narrower root and is wider toward the tip, while the 6541A-0 has a wider belly and tapers toward the tip. The funny thing is, most of us wouldn't have noticed things like this if I didn't mention it. But I like to poke at my own work. I'd still pitch it against any foamy Corsair, ever.
:P
Sharp eyed scale nuts can point to other variations, such as antenna placement, the existence of the belly window, etc. In all, there were also field modifications and variations from the different factories producing the real Corsair that obscure what is "strictly scale" for a given variant. In fact, even the monikers -A and -D aren't necessarily period accurate. For example the "-A" moniker was a designation used after WWII, not during it as our chosen -A liveries depict. And technically, the -A used Hamilton's 6501A-0 prop, not the later 6541A-0 that the -D used (which is the prop we're using for both our Corsairs, for aerodynamic purposes). The 6501A-0 has a narrower root and is wider toward the tip, while the 6541A-0 has a wider belly and tapers toward the tip. The funny thing is, most of us wouldn't have noticed things like this if I didn't mention it. But I like to poke at my own work. I'd still pitch it against any foamy Corsair, ever.
:P
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