David Hansen Posted May 16 Posted May 16 This project started out mainly as an R&D effort to create the perfect shade of ANA 623 Gloss Sea Blue.... However, with the other Corsair done (#3) and with much of the subassembly work done (because i was in temporary housing where i could glue and sand, but not paint), This project started to gain momentum. Presenting El Corsair Grande, Numero Quattro. As many of you know, this time round i am using the Barracuda Studios resin seat. However, i am not using the Barracuda Corsair cockpit placards this time because it seems that they sold out. On one hand, they add a lot to the finished cockpit, but on the other they are time consuming and tedious to install, rapidly sucking joy from the project. But with that aside, the cockpit is installed, the fuselage halves glued together and much of the supporting cast of fuselage parts are installed. Prior to mounting the windscreen, of course i had to paint and mount the armor glass. The -1A incorporated a smaller, rectangle shaped piece of glass towards the top... To attach this, i used a product called Micro Liquitape. Its sort of like 3M post it note adhesive in a bottle. You brush it on, give it a few minutes to dry, and once set it stays perpetually tacky. I was able to attach the little piece onto the bigger piece of glass with no mess. Value Added- DINGG!! I cut the canopy masks using my customary method of sticking them to a piece of .010 sheet styrene, and then carefully trimmed and sanded the tape/plastic composite to final size. The Tamiya masks are quite accurately sized and fit well. Your results may vary, according to age and eyesight. The windscreen was mounted using Mig AMMO acrylic glue and taped in place to dry overnight. It fit well. Many of the components such as wings, flaps, empennage etc. are assembled, sanded, and ready to install. As usual, i will clean up all of the fuselage seams and attend to the wing center section joint first, before the other parts go on. The last "Time-Sucky-Part" of the build is the R-2800 powerplant, but i'll put that off for a little while longer. I'm hoping my model will look *something* like this... That is all for now. Thanks for shopping! -d- Landrotten Highlander, Mal_Belford, Sasha As and 20 others 23
David Hansen Posted May 16 Author Posted May 16 10 hours ago, zaxos345 said: Great start David!!!! John Thanks John! Martinnfb 1
David Hansen Posted May 18 Author Posted May 18 Greetings from the Bureau of Polystyrene Aeronautics. Couple of nights ago, i cleaned up, primed and painted the tailwheel truss with some Midnight Blue Acrylic. I had it lying about, it hadn't been used recently, and it was thickening up and running low... Why now, you may ask... For those not familiar with the Tamiya F4U Engineering, installation of the tailwheel strut is sort of a Sine Qua Non, if you will for completing fuselage construction. The longish rectangular keel piece (M20) incorporates a pin that acts like a alignment tool, running through a hole in a flat attachment tab at the front of the tailwheel truss , fixing it in place. Good news: VERY positive tailwheel installation. Bad News: If you forget about installing it first, you're really screwed. Anyway, with M20 installed and the tailwheel strut nesting happily in its safe place, we can begin sanding the fuselage joints....thankfully of which there are relatively few. As i've mentioned before, building up the cockpit and the engine really take a lot out of you and it feels sometimes like you're not making forward progress. Lots of tedious parts removal, cleanup, detail painting, insdtallation, weathering, etc. However there's a lot of stuff that just needs to be assembled and cleaned up. There was a lot of this activity running in the background. Here is the latest state of play photo.... The wing center section is ready to be glued in place, but i want it out of the way while i clean up the fuselage. So, until next time.... Martinnfb, geedubelyer, Anthony in NZ and 14 others 17
Martinnfb Posted May 18 Posted May 18 Mucho bien! Fantastic detail and really crisp work>. Following with interest Cheers Martin Mal_Belford 1
Mal_Belford Posted May 19 Posted May 19 Very very nice indeed....i like it alot @David Hansen David Hansen and Martinnfb 2
David Hansen Posted May 28 Author Posted May 28 On 5/19/2025 at 2:18 PM, Mal_Belford said: Very very nice indeed....i like it alot @David Hansen I don't know why i keep doing this to myself... Martinnfb 1
Mal_Belford Posted May 28 Posted May 28 2 minutes ago, David Hansen said: I don't know why i keep doing this to myself... I do, Your obsession with plastic aircraft models and interest in cool aircraft that you like and the history around it, and you want a cool airplane model in the glass cabinet that you can enjoy every day when taking your morning coffe. 😀 Martinnfb 1
David Hansen Posted June 2 Author Posted June 2 Latest progress update... The control surfaces were ready to go, and i had not mixed up a batch of the ANA 623 in over a year, so i wanted to get some paint on.... something to make sure i was still mixing the formula correctly. As usual, i laid down my coat of primer made from decanted Tamiya White Surface Primer (i got to the point i can shoot it directly into the airbrush without fear of armageddon), which is then tinted with a little bit of XF-4 flat yellow. Aside from the primer being a chance to check for any surface imperfections, i can take the parts out into sunlight to make sure i have adequate coverage. If the parts look dark green instead of blue, i know i need to put more paint on. Finally, i find that Tamiya acrylics just seem to bond to a primer better than to bare plastic. The vertical fin is just slipped in place right now. I have more work to do on the underside so i'm delaying installation as long as i can. This model will be on a slow burn in the background, while i work off some of my "Shelf of Doom" subjects.... -d- Sasha As, GMK, TankBuster and 10 others 13
David Hansen Posted June 13 Author Posted June 13 Fabric covered areas on outer wing panels masked and primed. The control surfaces are taped in place, to keep them from rattling around in the box until they're ready for permanent installation. I'm still troubleshooting some issues on the wing leading edges and the wing fold region. Every one of these Tamiya kits have had a slightly different fit of the outboard sections to the center sections. Some fit better than others. None have been perfect, but none terrible. Probably within real-world production tolerances... I'll probably continue with painting the wings YZC, then mount the vertical fin and then finish up by priming the fuselage. -d- TankBuster, Shoggz, TAG and 11 others 14
monthebiff Posted June 13 Posted June 13 Super smooth paintwork David and the ANA 623 looks very good indeed. Regards. Andy Martinnfb 1
David Hansen Posted June 13 Author Posted June 13 14 hours ago, monthebiff said: Super smooth paintwork David and the ANA 623 looks very good indeed. Regards. Andy Thanks Andy! Martinnfb 1
Dpgsbody55 Posted June 15 Posted June 15 Great progress. You're giving me some ideas for the remaining Corsair in my stash. Cheers, Michael Martinnfb 1
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