I just finished building a F4U-4 Cosair and it needs a friend, lol. So next up is this Skyraider which will have the same paint scheme as the Corsair.
Hopefully I’ll have some progress to report later on today.
Overall Sea Blue with the “polka dots” squadron markings?
Yep. [:D]
I think that is the old Match Box kit. You can get a nice vacuum formed canopy from sqaudron for that model and Cobra has a nice resin cockpit kit for it. AD5 aka A-1E.
a historic note the “AD” stands for “Aircraft Douglas”
Yup, it is the old Matchbox kit. Revell has most of their molds now. And I believe that Cobra Company has been bought out recently and somebody else has their moldings as well.
Side note, the A in AD stood for attack, not Aircraft in the pre 1962 Navy Aircraft designation system. The first letter or pair of letters was the aircraft type, the next letter the aircraft manufacturing company, the first number the type put out by that of that company that would come after the aircraft type letter(s), and numbers after a dash a model variant. Any letters after the dash/number were a sub variant.
Example F4U-1A: Fighter, 4th design, Vought Aircfraft Company (designator U), 1st variant with A sub variant (bubble canopy hood replacing birdcage canopy hood). When the final Corsair type recatagorized as an attack aircraft type, the nomenclature went from F4U-7 to AU-1. And if an aircraft was contracted to be built by a second company, the designator would change for those aircraft. A Corsair built by Goodyear would be a FG-1 instead of a F4U. The F4F-4 Wildcats built by General Motors became FM. It’s a very specific system.
Followed by the A2D-1 Skyshark, the A3D-1 and 2 Skywarrior, the A4D-1 and so on Skyhawk.
I suppose the Skyraider could be the A1D-1.
No, the 1 was always skipped for type. SBC, then SB2C for example.
Thanks for the correction Stick. The old mind forgot.
It’s cool that there is some learning going on for the FNGs and us old guys as well.
Wiskey Tango Foxtrot!!!
No worries Ranger… gotta keep the gray matter active… the memory gets fuzzy far too easily indeed…
Cobra Company has been bought by Mike West at Lone Star Models, and has updated his website with the new Cobra and LSM stuff.
Nice Segway with the Skyraider from the Corsair. I’m looking forward to this build. I did the Tamiya 1/48 kit a few years back and had a blast with it. I’d like to see the WIP you have for this build!
Toshi
Wow, you guys are just a plethoria of information! I guess that is my airplane history lesson for today, lol.
Finally some progress to report today.
Cockpit, not much to see here, lol.
Fuselage together.
Tail and main wing assembely together.
I have an airplane, lol.
Hopefully I can get some more done tonight after dinner.
Nice progress Keyda. Are you going to build this with wings folded?
Just a suggestion, but on future builds of post WWII US aircraft, you probably want to use the shade of gray that you used on the seat cushions for your main interior color, and not the lighter shade you used here. It looks too light to be Dark Gull Gray, which is more medium in shade.
OK smart guy. Who built the FD-1?
Should be Douglas by the lettering. First variant of their first fighter design submitted to the USN. D was assigned to Douglas Aircraft Company
However, looking it up, I see that it was assigned to McDonnell (for a questionable reason I would add) on their Phantom I, which was later redesignated as the FH-1.
Thanks, I haven’t decided how I’m going to put the wings yet. As for the interior color the instructions called for light ghost grey, and flat black. That was it. Looked to plain so I painted the cushion area of the seats to break it up a bit. I will make a mental note for future builds to go with the darker grey. I think I used gunship grey.
Masked off the three seperate sections of the canopy, and started getting things ready for paint. Hopefully I can have this in the booth this weekend.
Looking good Keyda.
Thanks Lawdog!
I’m going to try and get back to working on this today. I’ve got to the putty and sanding part which I dislike, so I’m dragging my feet, lol.
The kit is coming along nicely. Great job. [:)]