I want to do a few more Dauntlesses for the flight deck of Enterprise, but I need to finish the “Longest Day” build before I can get back to Navy aircraft. 6 June isn’t too far off.
Weather has been too hot to be on the water and fish all day so I finally got out and did some airbrushing on a couple of projects and finally got around to doing the top coat on the Corsair. Here she is…got some touch ups to do.
Nice going so far, Josiah. Looks like you achieved a smooth finish.
That appears to have turned extremely nice Josiah. Like CB said, that is a very nice finish you achieved. Great work. So, what’s the armor project you got going there?
Thanks Checkmate and Joe.
It’s the Academy 1/35 M1A1…I’m planning on putting it in a dio that I’m still keeping under wraps for now [:#]
I wish the anti-slip coating I sprayed on the hull turned out as good as the blue on this corsair but oh well.
Thanks again guys…I put the canopy on tonight and hand painted it. I’ll decal it up tomorrow and be looking at pictures so I can figure out how I want to weather this thing.
Here it is with all the decals, all it needs now is weathering and the antenna. Im going to hold off doing that until I get a couple other planes to the weathering step. So for now it’s finished!
Looks sharp! A job well done!
Looking good Josiah. I hope my Devastator paints up as nicely!
You’ve got it looking relly good Josiah. I’m looking forward to your weathering efforts.
Making some progress here. Got the fuselage together. Interestingly, Eduard omitted locator pins on the fuselage. Although the cockpit tub, oil cooler vent and the tail wheel fill that function. After a half dozen test fits to ensure everything lines up I put the Tamiya liquid cement to the fuselage and clamped it. After allowing the cement to set and unclamping I found that the fuselage halves had ever so slightly slipped. This left a slight ridge to putty and sand. [bnghead] But, it’s working out.
Thanks guys.
Looking good Joe…I wonder if that is the case for the 1/48, if so I’ll have to keep an eye out on that…I remember there was something else you said to possibly watch out for, I’ll have to remember to go back and reread your progress on this when I start on my Hellcat. Anyways, keep up the good work, I’m confident the end result will be worth all the trouble 
Thank You Josiah. The other fit issue I encountered was the locator tabs on the tail planes were to long. Thus, they met before the fuselage halves would close up. I’ll check my 1/48 kit but, I’m going to guess that they are the same. It’s been a bit on the tedious side but I’ve pretty much cleaned up the fuselage slip issue.
Thanks for clarifying Joe.
Here’s the underside weathered
I got the whole plane weathered actually…tried my hand at a wash, not too good at it as you can see. When I took a picture of the topside you couldn’t see much difference from before, so I’ll wait till tomorrow or thursday to break my camera out for the final pics.
Good looking work there Josiah. Your wash looks quite good. Like everything else applying washes gets easier and better with practice. What kind of wash did you use? How did you create your exhaust stains? Keep that good stuff coming.
Looks good from here Josiah. I’ll second Joe’s request regarding the wash and weathering methods.
Thanks guys. I just used acrylics and diluted it with water. brushed a whole section such as the wing. Got a piece of toilet paper and soaked up all the excess that was collecting at one end. Then used an old tshirt and lightly wiped the wing. I had to do it a couple times for each section to get a noticeable difference but on the bottom it turned out decent.
For the exhaust stains I uses pastels, took a exact blade and shaved it into fine powder, brushed it on…wasn’t sticking very much so i got the brush a bit wet.
Looks pretty good Josiah!
Now that school has gotten out I’ll have a bit more time to model. At first I was a bit overwhelmed by the detail in AM’s Dauntless. But so far she’s building up rather easily. If I were to make a complaint though, it would be all the ejector pin marks! I don’t mind the ones inside the fuselage where no one will see them, or it easy to clean places. but there was one on the small flare gun, and on the large leather pouch. I cleaned them up the best I could. It took me a couple of nights, but I finally completed step 1 in the instructions, but here it is so far, all painted up.
It’s an axiom of modeling, Joe: parts will fit together perfectly–until you apply the glue. Nice work, regardless!
Nice cockpit, Bob; really looks good.
Well done, Josiah. You’ve done well with the wash.
One method I ran across recently–probably in FSM somewhere–is to take the wash off with a dry, rather than a damp, cotton ball/q-tip/whatever.
I used to have trouble with the damp-removal method; it would take off too much.
The trick with the dry-removal method is to have a good slick/gloss base before you put the wash on; and then, not allow the wash to sit there too long. Even with acrylics thinned with water, and dish soap added, I’ve found the washes impossibly durable at times. They won’t come off where they’re supposed to come off. Sometimes they even defy and laugh in the face of Windex with ammonia!
Anyway, your effort looks absolutely fine the way it is. But I always think it’s good to have a number of tricks up your modeling sleeve.
Question then…so after all the painting and decals are put on…instead of putting a flat coat on I should put a gloss coat on? Do the wash, and then put a flat coat on?