International Scale Modeller

Right. Turned the man cave upside down looking for a tiny spool of Ushi rigging line, when I find it I may edit these picks with an R/T aerial attached but, for now I'm calling this done as I need to get a P-38 finished by the end of this month. I have a Hasegawa Zero in the stash so I may put that into this GB later in the Summer too.

"White 20" flown by 1st Lt Foy "Poncho" Garison, VMF-213, Guadalcanal June/July 1943.











































Tried a few new things on this build:
Post-shading and no pre-shading (although, in my mind, the process is fairly similar).
Sanded back the decals to distress them slightly.
Oil dot filter (Well, first time I got it to work).
Put a Geezer in the cockpit (haven't done that in ages and fancy doing it again with the aircraft in flight).

A few things I might have done differently, primarily the cockpit cut outs on the turtle-deck as I think they should be the same colour as the fuselage. The tail number does not match the aircraft as I had a decal problem during the build and managed to remove nearly all but the tail numbers. And I've just noticed that I've not painted the nav light on the fuselage spine but, as I've typed all of this and I'm currently 70 miles from the model, that can wait.

As always, great to take part in these group builds here on ISM and here's to many more.

Thanks for looking.

That is a thing of beauty Sir. Very well done.

Nice one Will ! Like a lot this color scheme ! You made a wonderfull work !

Gorgeous, simply gorgeous

You pulled out the stops on this one Will, superb work.

Superb Corsair Will, I really like your weathering

It looks amazing, Willem. Extra kudos for all the experimentation, that takes some courage The effects on the decals and the shading and filters, it looks fantastic.

Inspirational build.

Some real top notch work here - just fantastic looking, the slight weathering you put in areas (such as those front areas around the decal on the top side of the wing) really make this model.

that is one cracking F4u buddy i really like the paint job., and yhe overall look of the beast.

Such nice weathering on that plane. Great work.

Hi Will stunning, no other word for it, brilliant work Pete.

Many many thanks for all the comments guys. I am really chuffed with how she turned out. Some things worked for me that have so far eluded my skill levels. (It does help to have a kit that, nearly, falls together). She is not perfect and I like that. But this is a good step along the road to what I want to achieve.

I can sit back and watch all of the cool builds in this GB come to fruition........... Although there is a Hasegawa Zero that keeps catching my eye.

Need to finish a P-38 first.

Once again, a great pleasure to build along with such amazing modelers.

This is really REALLY nice!

Great result, really looks fab.

Beautiful model ! Nice job !

The Corsair looks absolutely fantastic Will I really like the distressed look you gave the decals, I'll have to remember that trick for one of my next builds.

That is one very nice model,high lighted panels look great and the wash has picked out the panel lines well. Nice garden also.

That's one beautiful bird! Well done

wow exellent work!

Another great build buddy, I love the weathering on the decals. She looks ready for action!

That's an amazing looking Corsair. Well done


Tommy