stivvy

Hi Gary,
Lighting looks good.
Can you please let me know if you have posted mine and the exhausts yet.

Thanks, Steve D

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Sent you an email Steve. Yes, it was shipped. I think I sent you a PM on the shipping charges. something I had not forwarded you yet. Please let me know if you got that. They are in the same box, as we talked about, and it is marked as you requested.

best regards,
Gary

stivvy

Hi Gary,

Thanks for the update - I will keep a look-out for the delivery.

No emails from you recently, so they must have been lost in the great www.
I will be in touch when the package arrives.

Thanks again, Steve D

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Hello Steve. I sent a set to France the same day as yours, and he got it to today (Thursday). You should have everything very soon.

stivvy

Hey Gary,

As if by magic they arrived today !

What can I say - simply superb .

Thanks to all.

Steve D

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Great news Steve. I'm so glad the shipment went well and that you like every thing. We will be expecting pictures now. :-)
Enjoy,
Gary

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Just finished the manual for the new light system we are producing. Here is a look, for your consideration.

henderyckx bruno

Hello,Bruno from belgium here,i have a few questions first i want to now if the later corsairs (the ones painted in white)also have the formation lights on the wing and second if you now a site on the www where i can find good pictures of a white version of the corsair,thanks Bruno.

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Hello Bruno. The formation lights were still on the wings of models up to and through the F4U-4s, and FGs made by Goodyear. After WWII, seems they dropped the formation lights on the F4U-5s and later, including the AU-1 (the one you see in white usually). The Navy grey over white was a reserve unit scheme, and seen on the last of the operational Corsairs. By the middle of 1957, the Corsair had been phased out of service for the US. They continued in service in some foreign air forces like France, into the 60s. If you are modelling one of these later Corsairs, you would not need the formation lights, but they still had all the nav lights the Corsair always had, based on my research.

If you google AU-1 Corsair, you will get many hits to links on these later Corsairs.

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Sorry guys. I'm trying to post some build pictures, but RCU is not letting me again. []

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Keep getting that 500 server problem message.

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Rebooted my computer and got these to post.

In order to get the full benefit from the load speakers for the gun system (which we mount to the front of the spar and are aimed at the intakes, we open up the intakes with some scale enhancements. The CARF intake covers are pathetic looking at best.

Still have some blending to do around the lip of the intakes, but they are glued in. I taped the joining lines and ran epoxy in around it. very strong install, it fills any gaps, and it beefs up this area of the leading edge, adjacent to the gear mounting structures.

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My scale detail kit is not currently available. Reason is, some of the tooling is worn out, and all the rest is in storage. I basically developed the tooling for the one CompARF Corsair that I built several years ago for a customer. Others requested detail kits, so I produced and sold almost 20 from the tooling. To remake the tooling is too much work for the current demand. Also, several of the parts are CNC cut. I had a run done of these, and there are not many left. Sorry.

Graeme Mears

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Thanks for posting Graeme. The update is much appreciated, as is your skills. Looks like we were among the fortunate 20 or so.

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Believe it or not, you can get two of these load speakers in the CARF Corsair wing. They mount to the front of the wing spar, each aimed at an intake. These provide the sound for the gun system.

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Full scale intake.

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looks amazing......such talent.

MRadu

Hello Gary,

Just a side question about colors for the Corsair.
I alway thought that the Corsair was three colors.
After doing research I came across the following:

Top of wings and top of horizontal stab and elevators are:
Semi Gloss Sea Blue (ANA 606) = Dark Blue

Fuselage sides and top are:
Non Specular Sea Blue (ANA 607) = Dark Blue just not as dark as Sea Blue

Fuselage sides, vertical stab and rudder with bottom of wing tips are:
Intermediate Blue (ANA 608) = Medium Blue

With bottom of fuselage and mid center wings are:
Insignia White (ANA 601)

Is this four color scheme correct to your knowledge?

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Yes Michael. That is correct.

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I will say that the 606 and 607 are very close. Till you get done with fading and other discoloration you can hardly tell the two different colors.

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This plane was painted with the (4) colors. Hard to tell.

These were taken just before static judging at Top Gun last year.

BTW, it was said by some of the judges that the plane looked "too new". Regrettably, I failed to point out to them that, at the time in the service of this airframe that we modeled, she had only been in service 6 weeks, not 6 months. You need to explain these things to justify how your model looks, or they draw their own conclusions. Next time maybe.

MRadu

Gary,

Your work is fantastic! Thank you. These extra photos are new (to me) as I have been looking all around the web. I'm happy you gave such a complete answer to a side note question, as I was ordering my paint.

I use KlassKote epoxy paint and really like it. It is easy to work with (as in spraying through my airbrush) and dries like glue. It can be sanded and is fuel proof. It also can be ordered using military colors.

What type of paint do you use?

These photos bring a complete new set of questions and I have gone back through this thread and still have not re-read everything. I'd like to ask about such things as:

How did you make and install the antennas and then their wires? I have researched the original and found that in the rudder tip there was a simple hook. That is easy enough, however, what type of wire and how did you install into the antenna tip and keep it taught? Did you have it for static only or could you fly with it as well?

And

How or what did you use for the anti-skid strips on the wings? Did you use sand paper? Or maybe paint it that way? If so how and with what? Please.

Should I ask these things through my own build thread of my CompARF? If so I'll start my own when the parts I have ordered come in.

Also I still have the shorter tail wheel shock. Do you have one that you could sell me?

Thank you,

Michael

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Gary,

BobH

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Three colors for the three scheme. Where is the forth color you are talking about? The insignia did change colors and for a period had the red surround. This was changed after about 6? months just get rid of the red surround.

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Bob,