Here's the release many people have been waiting for - Tamiya's superb big new Corsair has landed!

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Hi again

Not a single reply about one of the most drooled-over-in-advance kits of the year?! You're kidding me! Yeah - Tamiya have only released "the best Corsair kit in any scale by leaps and bounds."... whatever!

All the best

Rowan

They're all over the place over at Large Scale Planes. Perhaps all the Corsair enthusiasts are busy there?

Hi Jessie

Well - they shouldn't be! And what's "Large Scale Planes"?

All the best

Rowan

i suppose its not bad..... i'm sure the odd person will find faults with it....

paul

I feel your pain Rowan but for me a Corsair is a take it or leave it aircraft, and at this time I'd leave it.

Don't get me wrong I applaud Tamiya for making it but it's just not for me.

It's some other place where people go to build models sometime. Don't know why when they've got Aeroscale...

This (among others) is quite "drool worthy". 1/32 _would_ be awesome to work in were it not for one "small" problem. I already have a serious lack of display space.

Its so bad that I'm designing and building boxes for long term storage of older models in my collection just to make room for the projects that are currently on my work bench.

If not for space limitations I'd already be working on an He-219 or JU-88 in 1/32 scale. Instead its total commitment to 1/48.

Cheers,
Fred

I will be buying one but not the birdcage version. I have just completed a set of masks for one of these for Jamie Haggo, you can find him on Large Scale Planes, or is it Britmodeller? and it will appear in one of the magazines

From what I have seen it is definitely as good, if not better than any of the Tamiya "super kits", and I look forward to further releases.

Certainly a outstanding kit. Seen it up close and personal. Just don't build in that scale as a general rule unless it's a physically smaller size. Already have built Tamiya's 1/48 scale F4U-1, & F4U-1A. Have the F4U-1D as well.

Joel

What I neglected to say, because I was making a blatant plug about my masks, was that it is a very nice review Frank, thanks. Whether I get this version or a later version this review will still be very relevant and it great to have it review so well here; those other sites just have people who have bought the kit gushing over it rightly so but a good review is worth a lot more

I can testify..its a beautiful kit! And the fit of the parts is the best Ive ever seen.

Yeah, the gray styrene is too neutral. And I'm not odd!