Subject: Re: Testors F4U Corsair Article
From: "Submissions for ARC" <[email-masked]>
To: "Rick Reinbott" <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 4 Aug 2008 19:29:07 -0700

Hi,
I just wanted to let you know your article went on ARC today.  Thanks again for sending it in.

Steve Bamford
Aircraft Resource Center
http://www.aircraftresourcecenter.com

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  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Rick Reinbott 
  To: [email-masked] 
  Sent: Sunday, July 06, 2008 6:02 PM
  Subject: Testors F4U Corsair Article

    Steve,
   
  Please use the picture with the '01 at the end as the best one and the one with '02' at the end as the second best one.  After that, it doesn't matter to me which order they're in.
   
  Please use thes e-mail address as the one for folks to correspond with me.
   
  Thanks!
   
  Rick Reinbott  

        1/72 Testors F4U-1A Corsair 

       
        by Rick Reinbott 

   

  This is my Testors 1/72 F4U-1 Corsair, finished as an ‘A’ version.   

  Construction

  The model was completed in 2 weeks, (which is a record amount of time for me) and went together with no problems.  I had to file off the ordnance ‘stubs’ on the wing undersides to convert it to an ‘’A’ version.  The openings for the wing guns were represented as ‘dimples’ on the kit so I drilled those out using my mini-drill.  Other minor scratchbuilding included the brakes lines (beading wire painted black), pitot tube (household pin), drilling a hole for the radio mast and making a locating pin for the mast (brass wire) and fashioning and the aerial wire from a strand of my youngest daughter’s hair, which I painted using Testors ‘Steel’.  

  Painting and Weathering

  The paint is all hand-brushed (haven't done that in over 20 years, if not longer!), with Model Master paints being used for the colors of Non-Specular Sea Blue, Intermediate Blue and Flat White.  An acyrlic wash using Model Master Acrylic Flat Black was applied to the undercarriage and wheel wells.  Black pastel chalk was applied lightly behind the gun openings to simulate some staining.  

  Decaling

  The decals came with the kit and I had no problems with them.  Champ Setting Solution was used to on the decals to help them conform better to the model’s surface.  The 'happy jungle' background was made by my youngest daughter, oh, sweet youth!

  The model represents VF-17 Squadron Commander Tommy Blackburn’s F4U- 1A ‘Big Hog’ during the Solomons campaign in 1943-44.  b

  Happy Modeling! 
  Rick 
  References:
  F4U Corsair in Detail & Scale Part 2, Bert Kinzey, Squadron/Signal Publications (1998)
  A Handbook of Fighter Aircraft, Francis Crosby, Anness Publishing Ltd. (2002) 

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