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Feature: Pacific Corsair
Tin_Can
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Posted: Sunday, October 12, 2003 - 04:55 PM UTC
Mal (holdfast) has sent in a nicely detailed article on his latest assembly line production-a F4U-1 'Birdcage' Corsair. Just follow the link below:

Pacific Corsair
ladymodelbuilder
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Posted: Monday, October 13, 2003 - 05:27 AM UTC
Mal,
You've done it again !!!!! #:-) #:-) Your Corsair is absolutely beautiful !!! This is a great article.



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CRS
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Posted: Monday, October 13, 2003 - 06:31 AM UTC
GREAT article Mal, as for the model as Rocket would say "another stunner"
Merlin
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Posted: Monday, October 13, 2003 - 06:54 AM UTC
Hi Mal

Beautiful job and a great article!

Another stunner! :-)

Rocket :-)
Venom
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Posted: Monday, October 13, 2003 - 07:04 AM UTC
great model and article!!!
chip250
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Posted: Monday, October 13, 2003 - 09:09 AM UTC
Mal, you have done it again! Very nice!

~Chip :-)
csch
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Posted: Monday, October 13, 2003 - 11:21 AM UTC
Hi Mal:

Fantastic article and a real outstanding model. Congrats.
thenamshow
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Posted: Thursday, October 16, 2003 - 08:15 AM UTC
very good where did u get it n how much waz it
Wad_ware
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Posted: Thursday, October 16, 2003 - 11:03 AM UTC
Great looking corsair
That is the same corsair I am just starting to work on. This really gives me the inspiration to really see what I might be able to do with my kit.. I might borrow a few of your tips and try a few things such as how you made the lights. If I do - I'll be glad to give you credit for the idea

Good modeling,
Wayne
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Posted: Saturday, October 18, 2003 - 03:17 PM UTC
The F4U Corsair, my favorite plane of WW II and Korea.
Holdfast
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Posted: Sunday, October 19, 2003 - 12:17 AM UTC
:-) Thanks guys and gal. I really enjoyed build this model :-)
Taylor

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very good where did u get it n how much waz it


If I managed to translate this correctly I got the kit from Model Base, in Worksop England and it cost £14.99 (The shop owner gives me a little discount so it cost me £14.00) :-)
Wayne

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This really gives me the inspiration to really see what I might be able to do with my kit.. I might borrow a few of your tips and try a few things such as how you made the lights.


If you want to clarify any details just drop me a line :-)
Mal
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Posted: Monday, November 10, 2003 - 05:36 PM UTC
MAL,
I've heard rave reviews of the Tamiya kit. AND YOU HAVE done an OUTSTANDING job. I love your shading and weathering . suttle but affective. You article composition is great and very easy and informative. JOB WELL DONE. I like the colors better than the Dark sea blue scheme any day. KUDOS Todd
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Posted: Sunday, November 16, 2003 - 03:56 AM UTC
:-) Thanks Todd, I enjoyed building the model and writing the article. Not sure I agree with you about the colours, I like the tri-colour scheme. I built the kit with these early colours to show, eventually the progression in camouflage. The colours are quite nice though :-)
Mal
markS
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Posted: Wednesday, January 14, 2004 - 03:52 AM UTC
I believe that Marine's Dream was painted in a field applied three tone scheme comprising sea blue/intermediate blue/white

Mark Styling
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Posted: Wednesday, January 14, 2004 - 04:02 AM UTC
Simply breathtaking in its ghostly colours.
And a great write up to boot.
Shows the armour boys a thing or three...joke guys...only a joke....

Congrats...mines a 12 year old single malt.
Cheers
Peter
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Posted: Wednesday, January 14, 2004 - 04:39 AM UTC
verry nice work!!
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Posted: Wednesday, January 14, 2004 - 09:13 AM UTC
:-)
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believe that Marine's Dream was painted in a field applied three tone scheme comprising sea blue/intermediate blue/white


Interesting, Mark, maybe at a later date than the scheme I have done? If not then Aeromaster might be interested in your research :-) Welcome to Armorama
Thanks Guys
Mal
markS
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Posted: Thursday, January 15, 2004 - 02:58 AM UTC
Highly unlikely the plane ever appeared with the added bars to national insignia whilst still in the earlier two colour scheme. Much more likely the scheme was modified when insignia was updated (like other F4Us of the period). Can't prove it as the only photos ever seen of this plane was when it was written off at Torokina Dec '43 and at that time it was in the three tone scheme. The only ace I knew that flew this airplane had no recollection of its scheme.

Aeromaster have already used my research, but still managed to include errors in their decals.

Mark Styling
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Posted: Thursday, January 15, 2004 - 08:37 AM UTC
:-) Thanks for the info Mark, I still like this scheme (cos I aint gonna change it now) and as I wasn't there when this plane was around who really knows. There's possibly a million things wrong with it? I like the model, I like the scheme I like what I did with it, so at least I'm happy. In the end that's what matters to me :-)
Mal
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