Naval Aviation GB - 1/72 AU-1 Corsair *Nearly Finsihed*

[FTS]

This will be a build of the 1/72 Italeri AU-1 Corsair which can also be built as an F4U-7 with the French, one to be built in the future.

Box and spues

IMG_1765 by harrison-green, on Flickr

IMG_1770 by harrison-green, on Flickr

IMG_1766 by harrison-green, on Flickr

[Deacon]

[FTS]

Well this one has fought me a lot today. I'd hoped to have been at least filling the 4 this evening but so far i've only got the one done so i'm now well behind schedule. The fit of these Italeri kits isn't brilliant, particularly at the wing joint under the fuselage.


IMG_7900 by harrison-green, on Flickr

IMG_7901 by harrison-green, on Flickr

This one is now ready for spraying but the rest need to catch up first.

[Deacon]

Well done mate, you've done well with that.

[FTS]

This one just needs stores adding and it's done. Annoyingly I can't seem to find any door numbers in the kit, if i've cut them off then something must have eaten them!

IMG_0191 by harrison-green, on Flickr

[Deacon]

You seem to have the weathering nailed for these birds mate.

[FTS]

You seem to have the weathering nailed for these birds mate.

This time I tired something new and instead of giving them an oil wash gave them a dusting with Nato Black. This toned down the decals and help blend in the exhaust stains. It's worked well on the French one as those yellow decals were far too bright. This is similar to weathering on steam locos.