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Wow, so nice!!

My June is still heavily booked with family obligations. My youngest just graduated from high school and we'll be taking a family trip to the Eastern Sierras this weekend. And then driving up to NoCal next weekend. So not much modeling until next month probably.

I had some time to glue the wings to the fuselage. As typical on this kit, the fit is amazingly good.






Since I'm planning on leaving the wings removable, I'm very close to the painting stage. So I'm playing around with some pre/post-shading techniques using a Scotch Brite pad and splatter painting templates.

That's a really nice join at the wings. I'm glad to hear painting is coming soon.

I can’t wait to see how the technique comes out later!

Fantastic progress Brother John!

John! That looks gooooood!

That's a lot of stunning work for not having much modeling time. This is brilliant!

Take all the time you need; family comes first.

In hibernation since June but not forgotten... I'd like to get the Corsair build going again too. One of the things I was trying to work out was having the top engine cowling removable but I just couldn't get the gap to close to an acceptable level and so I made the decision to glue it shut. Not a criticism of the Tamiya kit but probably probably some pilot error and also the slight vagueness of the Vector resin cowl flaps that resulted in that gap.

The engine assembly has been attached to fuselage.

Excellent progress so far. I know how disappointing it can be to have to glue something closed that you wanted open. You did well with it though.