Revell 1/32 F4U-1A (1 Viewer)

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cnq

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Hey guys,

Hope you like the pics.


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I love it and did you put it together and do the paintwork/appying the decals? If so you have done a superb job. I would be interested to see some 1/30 scale figures next to this bird as well.

Tom
 
That mold (circa 1970 I believe) really gets beat up on by its critics, and I really don't understand why. It costs a fraction of what you'd pay for the Trumpeter kit which I don't see as having any better a shape. The Tamiya kit is wonderful but can be hard to find for less than $100. You've done a great job with it, and I'm glad to see Revell providing decals for The Jolly Rogers first CO, Tommy Blackburn. Well done, Sir!:cool:

-Moe
 
Thanks friends.

Tom,
Yes I built it out of box. I will snap some pics with 1/30 figure in it. I think the K&C figures (1/28) will be too big to display with this plane. I find that 1/30 figure will be ok though.

Moe,
Yes the critics slam this old Revell kit and I kind of agree with them. My most important criteria on kit is its shape compare to the real thing, and this kit has it correctly; And that's one of the reasons I build it besides cost.
 
It holds up well, despite its age, and as you said, it looks like a Corsair. I built two of these when I was a kid, Kepford's mount (the first boxing) and then again when Revell re-issued the kit in a "Black Sheep Squadron" boxing.

Out of the box, you can make a nice model of a Corsair, and I've seen guys build this kit and super-detail it to the point where people think it's the Trumpeter kit.

You've done a nice job with yours, cnq, you even made Revell's generic pilot look good! Keep 'em coming!

Prost!
Brad
 
theBaron said:
It holds up well, despite its age, and as you said, it looks like a Corsair. I built two of these when I was a kid, Kepford's mount (the first boxing) and then again when Revell re-issued the kit in a "Black Sheep Squadron" boxing.

Out of the box, you can make a nice model of a Corsair, and I've seen guys build this kit and super-detail it to the point where people think it's the Trumpeter kit.

You've done a nice job with yours, cnq, you even made Revell's generic pilot look good! Keep 'em coming!

Prost!
Brad
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Thanks.

I'm not so much into the smaller detail...but more into the overall finished look ..i.e shape, painting....So I can live with it especially for the price it cost me. Once I hang it up on the ceiling no one could see the cockpit any more {sm4}
 
TomNT said:
I love it and did you put it together and do the paintwork/appying the decals? If so you have done a superb job. I would be interested to see some 1/30 scale figures next to this bird as well.

Tom
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Here is a pic with figures (K&C US and FL German). As you can see the FL 1/30 matches better scale wise when display with 1/32 plane

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cnq said:
Here is a pic with figures (K&C US and FL German). As you can see the FL 1/30 matches better scale wise when display with 1/32 plane

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Perhaps we should lobby WBritains to make more 1/30 pilots and ground-crew. I doubt that FL would be interested.:)

-Moe
 
ivanmoe said:
Perhaps we should lobby WBritains to make more 1/30 pilots and ground-crew. I doubt that FL would be interested.:)

-Moe
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Totally agree. I like WBritains new version of figures. They have very good sculpting, painting, and reasonably priced.
 
After this one, I've been thinking about building the Trumpeter 1/32 TBM Avenger for my next US Navy Plane, and may be a Tamiya Pearl Harbor Zero after that ^&grin .
 
cnq said:
Here is a pic with figures (K&C US and FL German). As you can see the FL 1/30 matches better scale wise when display with 1/32 plane

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Thanks, you are right the FL figure does match up better although in my opinion I think the K&C figure kinda looks better against the plane. The FL figure probably matches better against the pilot so in that sense the K&C figure would be too large. The obvious reason why I asked is that I was wondering if the K&C ground crew would work with your plane. I agree, Britains should look at producing some ground crew although with the rate of their releases and getting the product to their dealers, the wait would be a very long time!

Tom
 
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