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Corsair F4U-1 white 20 - VMF 213 Guadalcanal 1943

Spring looks good. The colour of the primer is a very contentious question. Maybe this will help a little http://forum.largescaleplanes.com/index.php?showtopic=45508
When I was researching I believe that the Salmon Pink was only used on the interior. Exterior would have been the chromate yellow and or chromate green. Personally I would do Chromate yellow.
This is modern stuff but maybe of use http://www.thescale.info/news/publish/F4U-1D_Corsair-details.shtml

Hope that helps.
James
 
Ditto James on the Yellow Zinc for exterior. I have no reference, just recall years of looking at photos and seeing Yellow along panel lines and other locations.

:popcorn
 
Ok !!

chromate yellow zinc!

Thank you James for reference.

Now I searching the corrispondent colour in Gunze or Tamiya range. :hmmm

Thank you !!!!!!!!

mike
 
I have seen Tamiya XF-4 Yellow Green be suggested, I've never seen it so not sure. Currently I have a bottle of Testors Model Master Acryl #4851 that looks about right.
 
Hello all. Here's a picture of Zinc chromate as applied to a P-47 at the Wright Patterson museum.

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Every other shade comes from mixing it with lamp black until they came up with their shade of green .

Sound weird but it works.

Cheers, Christian B)
 
moon puppy said:
I have seen Tamiya XF-4 Yellow Green be suggested, I've never seen it so not sure. Currently I have a bottle of Testors Model Master Acryl #4851 that looks about right.
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Today I bought the Tamiya XF4 paint, thank you for suggestion!

Thank you Christian for photo example, very useful.
 
You're welcome Mike. Keep in mind that you can add some Tamyia black and change the shade just as they did.

I have used the Nato black quite successfully .

Cheers, Ch B) Christian
 
Hi guys
I have completed the mounting step with the alignment of the wings. After this I have sprayed a coat of Tamiya primer for verify if there are problem with mounting phase. With a sandpaper 1000 I have eliminated some others last little problems.
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Now my idea is paint the F4u as a tank ....... then I have painted the base coat with tamiya XF4 Yellow green......as was painted during the WWII....
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The next steps are a coat of Future, hairspray and tamiya colours.
I can not use the technique of preshading, but will use the postshading
Comments are welcome
 
Awesome (y) (y) (y) :popcorn

One thing to think of as you do the chipping. A lot of the runways made by the SeaBees used coral. This would be the worst abrasive and that big prop would corkscrew it around especially on the leading edges (cowling and wings. Panels would also show chipping from the sand/coral burbling over the small panel gaps. So leading edges of panels and behind the trailing edge of panels would be worst. The blades would also get some sanding action. One thing a lot of people may not appreciate is the salt spray from flying low also acts as an abrasive. Where I noticed a lot of abrasion on the Aurora was on the wing nav lights. It pitted the lenses so they looked a bit milky close up and lighter when the lights were on. Same with the bottom rotating beacon. So just sit back and picture the air rushing by and how it acted with laminar flow and the corkscrew of the prop and you can get a really good idea how stuff happened.
Not the best, but at abouit 1.07 you can see the vortex.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0B-DkOuWsZA

Maybe these will help also.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lRA9d14PZdQ

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DxJRV9Ae6LQ

James
 
Another site that may help.
http://www.colorserver.net/history/history-zinc-chromate.htm
James
 
Thank you for comments, thank you James, the movies are very interesting. I have seen a bit of suggestions of images for the weathering on my Birdcage.
Now I have sprayed a protective coat with Future and after a coat of hairspray. This is the base for weathering.
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On lower surfaces I have used a Gunze 51 Light Gull Gray.
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Tomorrow I will paint the Non specular Blue Gray ( with a mix of Gunze Colours) on upper surfaces....

stay tuned

Mike
 
Hi, I insert two new photos. The upper surfaces , with Non Specular Blue Gray and lower surfaces with Light Gull Gray e NS Blue Gray. I obtained the colour with mix of Gunze Colours, H51 and H56 for NS Blue Gray (50-50). For Light Gull Gray on lower surfaces, I added some H11 or some XF69 for light and shadow area.
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Next step is the National Insigna with paint mask.....I hope a good work!

mike
 
Fantastic! Love the shading on here. Sending :zen on the insigina, I did it once and that was enough, though the outcome was very nice.

:popcorn
 
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