Corsair

Roland Kovacs
Amazing detail and finish! Great job, congratulations!

John Thomas
Nice work

Lex Jassies
Beautiful sleek plane! Also very nice weathering.

Bart Goesaert
very nice; love the paintjob. had to look twice to be sure it was 1/72

Choppa Nutta
looks like a 1/48th scale model !! Good work ! 🙂

Jirka Klimek
Thanks guys, I really enjoyed that painting and weathering. For me, it's easier do this on small scale rather then on 1/48 🙂

Roberto Rocat
Always nice to see a Corsair 👍

Jirka Klimek
I took award on my first exhibition with this little piece. (Českotřebovský vehikl 2016-11-12) I'm very pleased. 🙂

Christian Keller
Beautyful corsair 🙂

Adam Gudynowski
Nicely painted and very clean built model 🙂

Bernhard Schrock
Excellent detailing and finish. Especially I like the thin clear parts. Falcon? Squadron?
Red for wheel wells? Very unusual. Where do you have this information from?

gorby
Utterly stunning – wow! Brilliant job Jirka.

Jirka Klimek
Bernhard, that clear parts are original Tamiya 🙂 Unusual colour for wheel bays come from discussion on Modelforum, (in czech, ie: modelforum.cz/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=31330 ), and I like it.
Thanks for comments.

Mats Bengtsson
First of all what a masterpiece and congratulations to the award. Well done Jirka 👍

This is what I found out regarding primers when I did my research for my latest Corsair project (feel free to add or correct any information I have missed out or might have gotten wrong): In 1942 the US Navy specified the interior metal surfaces should be coated with two primer coats and one lacquer finish. For the first primer coat untinted zinc chromate was used. The second coat was tinted to distinguish it from the first coat. There were three tint options; aluminium paste (rarely used) which produced a "candy apple" green colour, aluminium paste with black enamel (standard for US Army and Navy) which created a pastel yellow green, and lastly iron oxide which created a pinkish orange or more popular called "salmon red".

The shortage of aluminium during WW2 brought quickly an end to the first two options which left Vought to use the "salmon red" before the first Corairs were completed. The finishing coat for the wheel wells (that needed extra protection) were generally light grey or later white but a wheel well on an early Corsair that didn't get the last protective lacquer coat of light grey would probably be salmon red.

In spring 1943 the salmon red was replaced by a mix of zinc chromate and black.

Christian Bruer
Excellent work 👍

Stephan Ryll
That's a nice corsair 👍

Jirka Klimek
Thanks again, guys. Mats described wheel wells pretty well, I mean according to what led to salmon red colour in my bays.

Ulf Petersen
Well deserved award, Jirka!

Lex Jassies
Congratulations with your well deserved award!

Bart Goesaert
there is also a nice article about the colours of a corsair on IPMS-stockholm: ipmsstockholm.org/ma..colours_us_part3.htm

With regards to this bird... very, very very nice... love what you did with it...

Stefan Schacht
well done 👍

Bernhard Schrock
Just reserched and stunned...
Indeed red primer....
imodeler.com/2014/07..inc-chromate-primer/

Cristian Bordina
I agree with other mates... Congratulation fantastic model 🙂

Jirka Klimek
Really thanks, I appreciate your comments guys.