Not having seen the Hasegawa or Revell Dash 7 kit, and not having done my Dash 5 yet, is the Revell F4U-5 also a Hasegawa rebox?
I agree with you guys no motor or prop blurs just a really nice model!!
Hey, I have the Heller kit in my stash, GF gave it to me (she likes corsairs, she calls 'em ‘pingu’s’)
If you want I can open it up for ya and take some pic’s.
Only thing, it has raised panel lines, just saying, so if ya don’t like them you’re not suprised when you’re opening the box.
Regards Ninetalis.
Cool Thanks! Nope raised panel lines arent a concern!
Hey, I got the pic’s for ya,
The box
The sprues
Box and decals
2 colour shemes are provided, one that was based at Algerie and the other one was used during the Suez Crisis.
Here’s a colour sheme that I’ve found on the internet, same Corsair from the box
When I searched the internet, something caught my eye, I saw various french Corsairs, with the D-day look-a-like stripes, and I saw that, unlike the Corsair from the box and sheme, the stripes ran through below the numbers, any explanation for this?
With regards Ninetalis
I know this was a joke and I take no offense–I’m Italian-American, and my wife is half French!–but I think the record should be set straight regarding the French’s supposed tendency to surrender or turn tail and run. One need not go back to Napoleonic history to prove that the Grande Armee was the most lethal force in Europe for more than a decade.
But in World War I, the French military casualties were 1.4 million, second only to Russia’s 2 million. In WW2 the French lost 217,600 military personnel—and that was just from Sept 1939 to mid-1940—whidh was 1.35 percent of its population, compared to Japan’s 3.67% and the U.S.’s .94%. (Germany lost between 8 and 10%). If France surrendered Paris to the Germans, it was in no way different from any of the other European nations mauled by the Wehrmacht during those horrible days after the invasion of Poland. The disgrace of the Vichy government imposed by Hitler after the surrender of Paris will always be a black mark on french history. Then again, like Spain, Switzerland and other countries, France could have just decalred neutrality—not that that would have stopped Hitler from invading. Also, 150 Free French pilots became aces in WW2.
In Indochina, Chang Kai Shek sent 200,000 troops to combat the French, who fought two wars against China and Indochinese rebels, from 1946 through 1954. In 1950 the French lost 2,000 out of 10,000 troops at the River Delta. Gen. Giap launched an attack with 11,000 troops on the French in 1951, but the French repulsed them, killing 10,000 of the Viet Minh. In 1952 the French lost 5,000 men on the De Lattre Line and a year later went through what came to be known as the “57 Days of Hell” at Dien Bien Phu. In the final campaign of 1954, out of 20,000 French soldeirs, 2,200 were killed and 1,700 MIA.
These are not the kind of stats that support the idea that the French military are defeatists
I know this was a joke and I take no offense–I’m Italian-American, and my wife is half French!–but I think the record should be set straight regarding the French’s supposed tendency to surrender or turn tail and run. One need not go back to Napoleonic history to prove that the Grande Armee was the most lethal force in Europe for more than a decade.
But in World War I, the French military casualties were 1.4 million, second only to Russia’s 2 million. In WW2 the French lost 217,600 military personnel—and that was just from Sept 1939 to mid-1940—whidh was 1.35 percent of its population, compared to Japan’s 3.67% and the U.S.’s .94%. (Germany lost between 8 and 10%). If France surrendered Paris to the Germans, it was in no way different from any of the other European nations mauled by the Wehrmacht during those horrible days after the invasion of Poland. The disgrace of the Vichy government imposed by Hitler after the surrender of Paris will always be a black mark on french history. Then again, like Spain, Switzerland and other countries, France could have just decalred neutrality—not that that would have stopped Hitler from invading. Also, 150 Free French pilots became aces in WW2.
In Indochina, Chang Kai Shek sent 200,000 troops to combat the French, who fought two wars against China and Indochinese rebels, from 1946 through 1954. In 1950 the French lost 2,000 out of 10,000 troops at the River Delta. Gen. Giap launched an attack with 11,000 troops on the French in 1951, but the French repulsed them, killing 10,000 of the Viet Minh. In 1952 the French lost 5,000 men on the De Lattre Line and a year later went through what came to be known as the “57 Days of Hell” at Dien Bien Phu. In the final campaign of 1954, out of 20,000 French soldeirs, 2,200 were killed and 1,700 MIA.
These are not the kind of stats that support the idea that the French military are defeatists
Thank you ninetalis for the pictures! they are a great help! and to mr. high and mighty i completly agree even though it was a joke the french did suffer great loses