Quote from: Wardukw on April 08, 2024, 10:06:45 PM

Quote from: kerick on April 08, 2024, 09:47:34 PM

Quote from: Wardukw on April 08, 2024, 11:37:28 AMI think this one will be finished before the M48 is 

I'm really enjoying how this is evolving..no ideas about the weapons but I do know what paint scheme I'm going to use 😀
Vietnam War U.S.A.F camo 👌

That will be a great fit!

Yeah I think so to Ken ..it's a colour scheme I've been wanting to do for a while now and now I have the perfect excuse 
Sadly no work on this today as strangely I have to eat which I kinda have to and if I do work on a model I forget to. 😅

IMHO, an A-7 (or a mish-mash variant) usually works best in SEA cam.

And "That's Fronk-En-Beeld", thankyouverymuch.

Quote from: Rick Lowe on April 08, 2024, 10:44:49 PMAnd "That's Fronk-En-Beeld", thankyouverymuch.

As it's a Kiwi build, I shall allow that ... But only just & only the once.    

Quote from: Old Wombat on April 09, 2024, 02:31:31 AM

Quote from: Rick Lowe on April 08, 2024, 10:44:49 PMAnd "That's Fronk-En-Beeld", thankyouverymuch.

As it's a Kiwi build, I shall allow that ... But only just & only the once.    

Hey, as long as I get a Pass, I'll take it!

Now that the storm seems to be over for now I'll be able to post a whole host of pics tomorrow...this it starting to get very close to painting 🖼 😀

Next will be hunting down some correct ish looking decals .

Good luck on the hunt and carry on!

That Buccaneer mix is awesome !

Worked with the A7s from the Arizona National Guard a few times. Those guys could pickle off a bomb and hit the target while pulling a hard turn at low level!

Thanks Capn 
Now your about to see what ive been up to with this mish mash of planes 

Ken i have read about how in Vietnam these pilots were deadly with these things on bombing runs and considering how stable these planes are its not surprising at all really .

Right then lads ....heres all the pics ,,starting pics first 
The parts ..
DSCF4546 by Phill Harrison, on Flickr
DSCF4547 by Phill Harrison, on Flickr
Setting this all up wasnt all that difficult really ...getting the wings to work correctly wasnt all that difficult either but the way Italeri has the system worked out for their Tornado was terrible ...alone with quite a few other things about their Corsair to be honest .
So i changed it so it would work with the ideas i had .
DSCF4550 by Phill Harrison, on Flickr
DSCF4551 by Phill Harrison, on Flickr
DSCF4552 by Phill Harrison, on Flickr
So with a little bit of work i came up with this ..
DSCF4553 by Phill Harrison, on Flickr
As you can see here it worked rather well 
DSCF4556 by Phill Harrison, on Flickr
DSCF4557 by Phill Harrison, on Flickr
PSR time ..
DSCF4559 by Phill Harrison, on Flickr
DSCF4560 by Phill Harrison, on Flickr
DSCF4561 by Phill Harrison, on Flickr
Now to the cockpit ...talk about lazy ,,the amount of detail here is pretty much zero and me being me this wasnt going to stand ...its such a wide cockpit that it needed the treatment and the treatment is what i gave it ..im replacing the pilots seat because the one from Italeri was and is pathetic in every way ,,..so heres what i started with and how it looks before painting ,,which i havent done yet ,,its undercoated tho .
DSCF4563 by Phill Harrison, on Flickr
DSCF4566 by Phill Harrison, on Flickr
Started to work this but things changed 
DSCF4569 by Phill Harrison, on Flickr
The end ish results 
DSCF4576 by Phill Harrison, on Flickr
DSCF4579 by Phill Harrison, on Flickr
Now the pilots seat ...you can clearly see why i had to replace it ...its fecking terrible and the amount of work to make it look good was going to be totally wasted .
DSCF4572 by Phill Harrison, on Flickr
To give some idea of how bad this is ,,this is a Japanese pilot in 48th  ( of course ) standing in it   
DSCF4574 by Phill Harrison, on Flickr

Thats it for now ...its drying from the undercoat and this is will take the rest of today ,,,its not very warm here right now which is all good .
more to follow Gents 

Cockpits are a bane of my existence! I swear, even years ago, what were some of these designers thinking.
So where did you get the new seat and other parts? Looks pretty good.
I'm liking this collection of parts, it's coming together!

Quote from: kerick on April 12, 2024, 08:32:22 PMCockpits are a bane of my existence! I swear, even years ago, what were some of these designers thinking.
So where did you get the new seat and other parts? Looks pretty good.
I'm liking this collection of parts, it's coming together!

Ken I'm in the same boat..cockpits go from good to total crap and getting close to needing more cockpits if I build anymore like this .
The seat is from a F-15 AM set I got for cheap..the instrument panel is from another AM set ..also gotten on the cheap..the rest is Mirage 2000 and old as hills Monogram F-15 I got for super cheap 

Looking very good, Phil. Great work on that pit.

Quote from: kerick on April 12, 2024, 08:32:22 PMI'm liking this collection of parts, it's coming together!

It is 

Thank ya muchly Gentlmens 
It's now got paint on the underside..camouflage gray ..in a few days I'll start the camo 

Painting?  Probly too late then to say I think it would benefit from shorter wings (sorry Kit)?
I think they would help make it look more Corsairish at first glance.

Putty to painting in a day? Woh, Fast!

And I agree with Fred re: the wings. (Sorry, Kit! ... Not! )