here are some good places to visit
but i can’t find any 3 views or interior views of a corsair that are useful
i am trying to scratch- build an interior for an corsair
What Corsair Interior are you looking for ?
Bud
Different models of Corsairs had different cockpits. Early models didn’t even have floors. What version are you looking to build?
it is an f4u-1 from 1943
Historic Aviation has ‘Pilot’s Manual for the F4U’ for $10. I have a copy. It has pictures and layouts in black and white, no color. They also have some dvds, but I can’t say what’s on them.
If you care planning to scratchbuild a cockpit for an early Corsair (or just about any subtype of it, for that matter), I highly recommend you get the Waldron set for it from Roll Models. It includes those things you can’t scratchbuild, such as the many aluminum placards that appear in the Corsair cockpit. Also, it’s not expensive. You can also get Corsair film instruments from them separately.
I’m always amazed at how we modelers spend so many hours going blind putting every knob and handle in a 1/48 cockpit, and then completely neglect the placards. They are all over WW II aircraft interiors. Waldron’s are by far the most realistic and accurate for the a/c types they make them for (including the Corsair, assuming they continued to make it after Mr. Waldron retired lst year, and I assume they did). The sets come in most scales, and give a realism to the cockpit that you never imagined before. Often, the sets include such things as a round plug of styrene as the body of the oxygen regulator, and an aluminum placard (round) goes over the top to complete the regulator after you’ve added a little hose or a small piece of styrene for a valve.
Waldron sets also include small boxes to represent other components that had placards on them. And I highly recommend their inexpensive set of aluminum, printed radio fronts for US WW II planes. They are applicable to all US bombers, and to Mustangs and any other types where the radio boxes show. And if you’re lucky enough to get the Spitfire set, it includes a working PE throttle quadrant that is jewel-like in its detail and delicacy. You CAN go blind building up one of these, and I’ve only succeeded in 1/24 scale. I have the 1/48 and 1/32 sets, and can’t imagine putting the 13 parts together without losing or ruining half of them.
Finally, for the best all round source of placards for your Corsair, if you want to get instruments in the bargain, there is only one as far as I’m concerned, and it can’t be beat: Use Mike Grant’s decal placards (www.mikegrantdecals.com), which come in all sizes and are part of his outstanding instrument decal sheets. They come in two types: W II and earlier, and a sheet for jets, and they both come in the three major scales. I use these placards on everything where appropriate and they add so much realism. Especially when they go on the gear legs, near circuit breaker boxes, in gear wells and inside the doors, etc. Check your references and you’ll see how many placards are on the type you are building.
TOM
thanks those sites helped out alot