hey all new here anyone have links for this fine air craft
Welcome to FSM. You’ll find answers to all your aircraft questions with the propellerheads over on the Aviation forum side.
Here’s a starting place for you.
http://www.bentwings.com/home.htm
My site has lots of reference links you may find useful.
Welcome and happy hunting.
Welcome, Danniel!
Swanny’s got ya off to a good start.
Enjoy the forums!
Welcome mate. Join the club.
thanks swanny I will start there
Welcome to the forum.
[#welcome] Danniel. The a/c forum is the place with the answers.
Welcome to FSM Danniel. I’m sure the aircraft forum would help you out.
Hi, Daniel. Nice to have you join us today.
Welcome to FSM and hope you enjoy your time her.
Did somebody say “Corsair”??? Welcome Daniel. I have a friend that runs the following site. Check it out…
Dave
Gents: I just joined up today and this is the first experience with groups and forums. Please forgive any breaches I may commit. I was very quickly welcomed by Chris and he was kind enough to direct me to this group. I’m currently working on the Timaya 1/48 F4U, and I’m using the Aries detail kit. I have a question about the tanks in the cockpit and what color they should be. Oxygen–Green? CO2–Black?. By the way, I’m more than a little impressed with the Aires detail kits thks mkay
mkay
The oxygen tank is yellow. Don’t know about CO2.
Great site swanny.
wayne baker:
Thanks for the quick reply. In researching for some color hints on the F4U, I’ve seen the wheel wells painted with the tubing and wires the same color. I’ve also seen where these are unpainted. Are both ways correct depending on the age of the plane?
Hey Dan,
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Frank
I recommend getting your hands on a copy of Squadron’s “F4U Corsair, in detail & scale.” There are some excellent cockpit photos and engine shots. Jerry Zollman’s web site bentwings.com is an excellent reference. Just remember they didn’t come out of the factory looking that good. The Corsair I’m sitting in below was done in the same quality as Jerry’s. When I crawled up there my feet were guided to make sure I didn’t scratch the paint. It’s perfect in every way. It’s a beauty and it can be yours for only $2.5 million! [:D]
Dave
Thanks weebles: I have the book and think I know the answer but in several different pix I have noticed both ways. I tend to think it was both ways depending on expediency
Thanks[:D]
Remember that the detailed color photos you see typically come out of museums. Not necessarily how the aircraft was built. To complicate if further these aircraft came out of several different factories. In the case of the Corsair they were produced by Goodyear and Vought. So what you see in photos can vary from reality and by who built it.
The photos in the “in detail & scale” book are the Corsairs down at the Naval Air Museum in Pensacola, FL. What I like about these photos is that the museum didn’t restore the interiors. They appear to be as they were flown. On one page they have the interior from the F4U-1A and on the other page they have the FG-1D. You can see the differences in cockpit layout as well as how they painted them.
As for the wheel wells and how they were painted it appears to be a mixed bag. The photo from the museum shows that they painted it the same as the underside of the plane. This seems to be true of most of the photos I’ve seen and the text of the book says as much. The struts can be either painted the same as the underside or bare metal but most appear to be painted.
Newly restored birds that are restored to fly are not a good source for color varification. As an example the bird I’m sitting in has yellow chromate in the gun bays and the wheel wells with green chromate in the cockpit. The one that is being restored at Vintage Fighters (web site bentwing.com) is green chromate throughout. It’s also not the same green chromate that was painted on the original aircraft. It’s gloss green chromate instead of flat. These guys want their 2.5 million dollar airplane to keep looking like a 2.5 million dollar airplane for many years to come. That said if you look at the photos from the tear down stage you can see how the original aircraft was painted.
Bottom line is I think the “in detail & scale” book is your best reference.
Good luck!
Dave