Painting a late war Corsair
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- Опубліковано 9 жов 2024
- Everything was progressing well with the Okinawa Corsair build until I experimented with a new paint and a new paint-scratching technique. And boy did I fail! However, this failure allowed me to fix some issues with the model, try some other finishing techniques and save the build.
Supplies used:
Tamiya TS-17 Gloss Aluminum
Mr. Color 365 Gloss Sea Blue
Tamiya Panel Line Accent (Black)
Mig Ammo Panel Line Wash Pacific Dust
Mig Pigment Light Dust
Tamiya XF-69 Nato Black
Tamiya XF-66 Light Grey
Tamiya XF-64 Red-Brown
Vallejo 70.950 Black
Vallejo 70-990 Grey
Mr. Mask Liquid Masking Sol
Fundekals Whistling Death F4U Corsairs
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Great save Chris! At some point I think I'm going to have to build a Corsair.
I like the end result on the tires, they do look like they have been running on a dusty surface. It is a thing we see less on our automobiles because the tires are under the bodywork, but it certainly shows on gravel dump trucks, and logging trucks, and farm trucks, and even autos like mine, which have driven on gravel and dirt roads & not yet driven on paved roads afterwards, around where I live now in the US midwest. Also remembering the look of tires after driving on red clay dirt roads around where I grew up in the southeast, there was sort of an orange-pink haze look to tire treads.
Looks really good, Chris! I would like to see you do one of the GSB Birds where you use Semi Gloss, Gloss, and Matt sheens all over for some variations in finish.
It's a good video, a lot of information. I like when you get to see the mistakes and then the recovery. Good to know that it isn't just me making flubs. I do have one question though. Your reference photos show a checkerboard tail, was there a time when that squadron didn't have them on the tail in WWII?
In the Pacific, land-based aircraft paint-jobs took a beating from the ground up coral on the runways. Carrier-based aircraft didn't get that kind of beating. Something to keep in mind with a variety of aircraft based in the Pacific in WWII.
Agreed. As an example, every photo I've seen of VMF-312, the subject of this video, their Corsairs showed heavily worn finishes. Add the viral dust and those birds were beat. My own example was built that way.
David R Lentz, Columbus, Ohio, USA (Friday, 23 August, 2024)
At 8:00 in your video, you mention “pencil scratches” (I infer that you mean a silver artist’s pencil), after earlier using a piece of sponge to apply liquid masking over a “natural metal” airbrushed, and left a few days to dry thoroughly. Would that look realistic?
All, in all, a very nice save! You have made a truly excellent presentation. By the way, how had you fared at the model show? Be sure to let us know!
Have you yet built any of Tamiya’s 1:32nd-scale kits of the Chance Vought F4U Corsair USN/USMC/FAA Fighter series? Trumpeter makes a late-war version of the F4U-4 with the four-blade propeller, the modified forward fuselage, the improved cockpit, etc., that from what I recently saw on a UA-cam channel video looks quite well-executed.
An Okinawa based Corsair, late 1944???!!! We didn't invade Okinawa until April of 1945. But anyway great show, I am doing a French F4U-7 right now from Hobby Boss. I am trying to find a good pilot figure to install. I will find one somewhere.
Oh my... why did I have '44 stuck in my head? You are absolutely right!
What show are you going to?
I went to HeritageCon in late March!
@@ModelAirplaneMaker Ah there is an IPMS Seattle show in a couple weeks seemed to line up thought that might be what you were talking about.
I’m very sure my good friend Jim Bates will be at that show! But that would be one heck of a commute for me.
@@ModelAirplaneMaker Hah. A good show though. Name might be familiar. I always leave that show with a light wallet and a stack!
Very dark color.