This is an amazing kit, perfect fit on all the pieces and a high amount of interior and exterior detail. Unfortunately, most of the beautiful cockpit detail can’t be seen unless you have a lighting system in your display stand. Although it is quite an expensive kit coming in at over 80 British pounds, it is definitely worth it and is a pleasure to build.
The landing gears are made of rubber which adds a realistic finish
The engine covers can be opened and closed at any time
A bit of weathering using an airbrush
welcome to my tamiya corsair build. Just got the model today and started working on it. So far I have painted and assembled the front part of the cockpit. I will post part 2 tomorrow probably. This is my second model after a 2 year break from scale modelling so excuse me if I do any basic mistakes.
Today I have worked for at least five hours. I managed to get the cockpit weathered and finished. Then I painted the 2 body sides and added detail to the rear tail wheel bay. I am now stuck and need help choosing what colors to use on the painting scheme. Tamiya recommends spray cans. I want to use my airbrush.Can anyone suggest tamiya paint bottle versions of the following spray cans:
AS-8
AS-12
AS-19
AS-20
The seatbelts did not turn out well…
then I spray painted the walls of the cockpit ant the landing gear well with my 15$ no-name airbrush
Part 3 will probably come out later this week since I have school and I will only be able to work for around 30 mins/day
Managed to get a bit of work done this evening. I connected the two fuselage halves and glued on some of the panels. I also masked off the two side windows.
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Got around to building a bit today. Started building and painting the engine and glued on the vertical stabilizer. I also painted the rear wheel. It’s getting too cold to go and do models in my garage so I moved into the basement. I am going to use Akan WW2 US colours as the main paint for the fuselage. Hope you guys are enjoying the build.
I added a black wash (water and XF-1 flat black) but i’m not sure if it looks good. There is also a small blue decal
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I have finally finished the engine and have attached it to the fuselage and installed the cowling. I have also started working on the elevators.
please comment down below on what you think
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I am halfway done with the wing assembly.
Got some new supplies!
the oil cooler
I hope to get the wings on the body by the end of this week
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I have finally painted up the gear bays and attached the wings to the fuselage. Make sure to follow this thread for more updates
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I managed to attach the wings to the body. I have also finished the front landing gears.
Just dry-fitting the gears in place
Started masking up some to the parts
The rubber wheels are a nice touch
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a bit messy but ill fix that later
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Just received the akan paints and started doing the camo.
My airbrush constantly keeps spurting water..
Unfortunately my airbrush stopped working so there will be no new updates until a new one arrives unless I fix this one.
See you next time
Ok, so I managed to get my airbrush working for a while but it stopped working again. I bought an Iwata eclipse and should be shipped to me next week.
My neat workspace…
sorry for bad focus
Hello I have applied the decals on the landing gears and the propeller. Then I coated them with alclad 2 aqua gloss.
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Sorry for not posting for some time. I didn’t receive my new airbrush yet so I was working on the small things such as the prop and pilot. I applied the decals to the prop and cover it in gloss varnish using a brush.
The paint or varnish seems to have a strange glittery effect
I am going to cover this in a flat coat later
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Just got my airbrush!
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I have started decalling and weathering. Instead of using decals for the black lines I masked them off and used an airbrush along with the thicker grey ones. I also used my airbrush to do the exhaust stains. Should I use tamiya TS-13 clear spray paint as a varnish?
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Most of the recalling is finally finished. The only concern I have is that the decals have a small glossy surface all around them. Will Tamiya TS-13 Clear spray paint help?
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