simon417 Posted October 18, 2019 Share Posted October 18, 2019 This will be my first WIP. It's the superb Tamiya kit, that we all know about. My neighbour is big Corsair fan (he's an RC plane guy), so I'm building him a Boyington markings version (as close I can make it). I'll be using the following AM. Barracuda - Cockpit Stencils Yahu - Instrument Panel Barracuda - Plain tread wheels EagleCals - EC 161 - F4U-1 Corsairs RB - seatbelts Maketar masks - for the primary insignia (maybe) Ultracast - Boyington pilot figure I'll be using AK Real Colours for main exterior and interior colours. Tamiya for everything else. AK, MIG and oils for the weathering items. Here's the progress so far. Yahu IPs are awesome! Stencils on. They are very very small. Not a huge fan of the RB belts. They're very stiff. Pappy waiting for some more paint Got my head but lost my arm. Cockpit complete. I've been following the paint instruction in the kit, so that's why the head rest is black and the oxygen bottle is silver. I'll be buttoning up the fuselage next and then onto the engine. All the pics are from my Iphone 8 and are hosted with the high quality option (not the original size) on Google Photos. Thanks for looking! TorbenD, MikeMaben, Sepp and 14 others 17 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crobinsonh Posted October 18, 2019 Share Posted October 18, 2019 Lovely progress and the figure is superb simon417 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LSP_Kevin Posted October 18, 2019 Share Posted October 18, 2019 54 minutes ago, crobinsonh said: Lovely progress and the figure is superb My sentiments exactly! Kev simon417 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kagemusha Posted October 18, 2019 Share Posted October 18, 2019 Nice start. simon417 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RLWP Posted October 18, 2019 Share Posted October 18, 2019 Oh no - not another one. I must stop visiting threads like this and do jigsaws instead Absolutely lovely work, thank you for sharing Richard simon417 and Brett M 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JayW Posted October 18, 2019 Share Posted October 18, 2019 Corsair. Mmmmmmm. I'll be watching. I am doing a -1A in 1/18 scale, will be done sometime this century. simon417 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wmoran Posted October 19, 2019 Share Posted October 19, 2019 Great figure painting. His face looks terrific. simon417 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brett M Posted October 19, 2019 Share Posted October 19, 2019 Very nice work on the pilot, he looks sharp! The cockpit is looking great, those Barracuda decals definitely spice it up. Now I should get back to work on my -1! simon417 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Out2gtcha Posted October 19, 2019 Share Posted October 19, 2019 Really nice! simon417 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Biggles87 Posted October 19, 2019 Share Posted October 19, 2019 Great cockpit and fantastic figure painting. For such a big aeroplane it doesn’t look like there’s much space left in the cockpit once the pilot is in place. John simon417 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Troy Molitor Posted October 20, 2019 Share Posted October 20, 2019 Wow, some great progress going on here. Thanks for sharing this with us. The pilot looks awesome. simon417 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gerhard Posted October 20, 2019 Share Posted October 20, 2019 That pilot is fantastic. It takes real skill to do figures, I suck at them. simon417 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John1 Posted October 20, 2019 Share Posted October 20, 2019 I've been trying to paint figure faces for decades and fail miserably. I'm amazed at those who can do so with such skill that the thing looks life-like. Fantastic work! simon417 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
simon417 Posted November 1, 2019 Author Share Posted November 1, 2019 UPDATE TIME A bit of progress from the last couple of weeks. Fuselage buttoned up. Pappy looking happy. Engine parts ready to go First step of exhaust painting Engine Assembly Engine dirtying (that's a word) Exhaustifications - Step 1 I'll play with the setting on my phone to try and get the brightness down on the next set of photos and hold my phone horizontally. Thanks for looking. LSP_Kevin, Biggles87, MikeMaben and 3 others 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikeMaben Posted November 2, 2019 Share Posted November 2, 2019 Looks just fine from here Smoke simon417 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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