Corsair

[zkraut]

WOW


I just got my corsair in the mail and it is wonderfully detailed. The panel lines are outlined in a really fine black. The corsair isnt bent out of shape! Is anyone elses like this?

[TheCygnysGuardian]

My 'gull wings' were a little awkward, but it was fine otherwise.

[Flyboy]

Yea mine are also a little too bent to the gull wing design but other than that it is a great sculpt

[Predator666]

Mine looked pretty good. The wings threw me off though since they looked so huge when I pulled it out of the box. Its a pretty cool little plane.

[zkraut]

The corsairs wings are what make it special :) .

They are supposed to be bent like that. What was weird, was the fact the propeller was grey with the plane.

[RBloom0566]

The corsairs wings are what make it special :) .

They are supposed to be bent like that. What was weird, was the fact the propeller was grey with the plane.

The physical piece was well-crafted. My plane came independent of it's post and base, which was no issue with me. It either wasn't glued or weakly glued.

My issue comes with the paint scheme. The plane is grey! GREY!
In World War II there were two popular paint schemes -
Royal Blue for the USN Corsair
Black for the USMC Corsair.

The roundelle is also wrong. It is a USAF insignia, which means it represents a post-WWII unit.

Nothing to be done and my complaining stops here. I just wish they'd stop getting things wrong so often.

[polish_horsy]

some idiot looked at a picture of a Corsair from 1950 in Korea and used that one.

That or this unit suffers from some kind of identity problem. It thinks this is a WW II game but it is a 1950 plane but it is also a British plane (checklist) though it is an American plane. The plane is so confused it is trying to make everyone happy... which makes nobody happy.

[FNG]

Check out this PHoto of a Grey Corsair circa 1940's
With the proper insignia
http://img168.imageshack.us/img168/4729/f4ucorsairlp6.jpg
I'm not sure which theater of operation they were used in, but sooner or later I'll find the info.
FNG-out

[Lynx7725]

With that tail insignia, it's the PTO. But normally I see planes on that particular air wing/ carrier rendered in navy blue.

[Tripwire]

At least it doesn't have a British roundel. :D

[Autarch]

I could be wrong but I think the switch over to the bubble canopy was after the paint scheme was changed to blue. I find it interesting that there is so few color photos of these planes in the light gray scheme, and none in the gray/dark gray A&AM version.