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

[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)

[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.

[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

[f4u ausie]

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

[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

[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)

[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

[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

[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]

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

[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

[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)

[Grossman56]

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

[jetfool]

Thanks

[Grossman56]

Files bought and sent to Dave. Should be interesting!

Grossman56
(Dangerous Dan)

[davegee]

Files bought and sent to Dave. Should be interesting!

Grossman56
(Dangerous Dan)

Hi Dan: Haven't been able to find your files yet for the pilot print. Can you resend to my davegianakos510@gmail.com address?

Thanks,

Dave

[Elbee]

Files bought and sent to Dave. Should be interesting!

Grossman56
(Dangerous Dan)

Hey Danger,

If the STL file package won't send to davegee , you could allow him to access your CGTrader account and download those directly.

That would involve allowing passwords, though you can change the password before and after DG gets the download.

If you bought anything, your downloads are limitless unless otherwise stated at purchase.

I have had this difficultly when downloading the STLs to different computers in my home.

Just a suggestion, let me now if I can assist.

Best, LB

[davegee]

Files bought and sent to Dave. Should be interesting!

Grossman56
(Dangerous Dan)

I've had a little success on the pilots from Grueter. Any problems are due to the print head on my printer goobering up and ruining the print. I'm printing up the head of a pilot right now, and so far it looks to be coming out ok. I'll post any positive parts I get as I proceed and hopefully get a whole body of a pilot that will work. We'll see.

Cheers, gents!

Davegee

[Grossman56]

Cool Dave, hold the goobering

[davegee]

Cool Dave, hold the goobering

It's not an exact science sometimes, unfortunately. You do the exact same thing the same way, and get different, sometimes poor resutls. Right now I'm printing up the head, I'll make several of those, and the body. and attach the arms. There is a lot we can do to cut the pilot down to where he will fit and look realistic and good. I think we can learn a lot from this exercise, especially me!

Will be in touch.

BTW, I printed up a test piece of a scale triangular head rest for the back wall. You're welcome to have it if you like. Just paint it up brown or balck and glue it on!

Cheers

davegee