Tamiya 1/32 F4U-1 Corsair - Work in progress

[Stokesy44]

Looking good. Did you use the kit decals?

[Nikola]

Looking good. Did you use the kit decals?

No. I used EagleCals with Humbrol DecalFix solution.

[RangerNeil]

Looks excellent now - will be amazing once you complete the weathering!!

[Stokesy44]

Looking good. Did you use the kit decals?

No. I used EagleCals with Humbrol DecalFix solution.

Good call, I did the same with mine. Had a couple of bad experiences with Tamiya's 1/32 decals. Strange, given the overall quality of their kits.

[DRUMS01]

This is turning out to be an excellent build. Great modeling skills, paint, wear, details, etc. I could go on, but needless to say exceptional work and inspirational stuff!

[digger303]

Wow 223 hrs...makes the kit look relatively cheap when you price it out at how many hrs spent.
You can certainly see how much devotion went into this result and there is still more to come.

[Nikola]

Approaching final steps.

Left to do - tail wheel, front landing gear assembly and painting, exhaust stains, some engine weathering, some pigments, antennae and antennae masts, canopy, some filtering and post-shading, some minor weathering details...

Apologies for the low quality zoomed photos...

[digger303]

[Nikola]

Exhaust stains done:

[digger303]

Lovely

[Stokesy44]

Very nice work. I really like the actual exhaust stubs too

[Elve1984]

Nice work!