It’s a plane! An F4U-1D Corsair to be more specific
Long time no post, but since I have this on my bench; why not. I started working on this two years ago after getting inspired at my local IPMS club’s annual contest with the intent that I’d get this done for the adjacent IPMS chapter’s following competition and this was 2 years ago in around Oct 2023. I actually started two Corsair kits, a 72nd birdcage and the 48th 1D with the intent that I could work on both at the same time. That was sorta true up until things just got simpler if I focused on one kit first. The last time I built an airplane kit was probably 35+ years ago when I was a wee lad. I’m pretty sure I built a Corsair back then too; I religiously watched Black Sheep Squadron on TV and loved the look of the wings. Over the years, I’ve collected a fair amount of Corsairs in different scales and from different makers – I just never actually did any work, until 2 years ago.
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I’d lost the original pictures I took when I started this so I had to screen shot some posts I made 2 years ago from my Insta account. Apparently I completely built the two cockpits. (more…)