New Build

Hi Everybody!
i will try to make this blog useful for me and for the readers by posting progress and informations about this new build: the Topflite GiantScale F4 corsair.
This is my first attempt to build a scale plane, but i'll try my best to make it as scale as possible.

The features of the F4U 1-D will be:

-Scale cockpit

-All the hatches will be real and functioning

-Folding Wings

-Opening and functional Gun Bays

-Sliding Canopy

-System for dropping bombs.

-Functional Trim and balance Tabs

-Lighting system

-Cowl flaps

-but most of all: all electric superscale scratch built main gears.

I'm about to begin, so in the next few days i'll post some pictures.

This build will last at least one year (i'm not a fast builder).
All comments and encouragment are welcome!

see you soon

Diego

Static models, plastic and metal

Here are two examples of what i intend to do in a much bigger scale... (hoping to..)

you can appreciate how many hatches are in the fuselage and in wings, i'd like to reproduce them all.
(it's gonna take a loong time..)

and this is an example of incredible craftmanship, a metal model with so many movable parts that makes me go crazy!!!
enjoy the sweet curves..

Paint Scheme

just before starting up, i had to choose which color scheme to use;

i've choosen the Roger Hedrick "white 167" scheme. i like sooo much the contrast between the navy blue and that yellow!!

These are some information about the great pilot who flew this incredible machine:

Executive officer of legendary VF-17 Jolly Rogers, with whom he claimed nine kills over Bougainville in 1943-44, Roger Hedrick led VF-84 on its fateful combat cruise aboard Bunker Hill in 1944-45. He claimed three kills in this machine on February 25, 1945, over the Japanese islands, taking his final score to 12. Hedrick later assumed command of the vessel's Air Group (CVG-84) following the death of its previous commander in action. The aircraft's distinctive yellow nose, which had been applied for CVG-84's first Tokyo raid on February 19, 1945, had been painted out by the time Hedrick claimed his last kills six days later.


look at the pictures.. isn't she beautiful?