F4U Update *May contain Corsairs*

[Clave]

Update:

F4U-1A of 1831 Squadron Royal Navy, circa 1943.



F4U-1A of 22 Squadron Royal New Zealand Air Force, circa 1944.



F4U-1A of VF-17 US Navy, circa 1944.



F4U-1A of VF-17 US Navy, circa 1943.



F4U-1A of VF-17 US Navy, circa 1944.



F4U-1A of VF-17 US Navy, circa 1943.



F4U-1A of VF-17 US Navy, circa 1944.



F4U-1A of VMF-111 US Marine Corps, circa 1944.



F4U-1A of VMF-212 US Marine Corps, circa 1943.



F4U-1A of VMF-214 US Marine Corps, circa 1943.



F4U-1A of VMF-214 US Marine Corps, circa 1943.



F4U-1A of VMF-217 US Marine Corps, circa 1944.



F4U-1D of VBF-10 US Marine Corps, circa 1945.



F4U-1D of VF-84 US Navy, circa 1945.



F4U-4 of VF-783 US Navy, circa 1950.



This example is an F4U-4 of VMF-232 US Marine Corps, circa 1950.



This example is an F4U-4B of VF-113 US Navy, circa 1950.



F4U-4B of VMF-323 "Death Rattlers" US Marine Corps, circa 1950.



F4U-5 of No 2a Escuadrilla Argentine Navy, circa 1964.



F4U-5 of No 2a Escuadrilla Argentine Navy, circa 1964.



F4U-5 of VF-14 US Navy, circa 1953.



F4U-5NL of No 2a Escuadrilla Argentine Navy, circa 1962.



F4U-5NL of the Honduran Air Force, circa 1969.



F4U-5NL of VMF-513 US Marine Corps, circa 1950.



F4U-7 of Flotille 12F French Navy, circa 1959.



F4U-7 of Flotille 14F French Navy, circa 1956.



F4U-7 of Flotille 15F French Navy, circa 1956.



F4U-7 of Flotille 15F French Navy, circa 1956.



F4U-7 of Flotille 17F French Navy, circa 1959.



FG-1D (Goodyear-built F4U-1D) of the El Salvador Air Force, circa 1965.



FG-1D (Goodyear-built F4U-1D) of the El Salvador Air Force, circa 1965.



FG-1D (Goodyear-built F4U-1D) of the El Salvador Air Force, circa 1969.



FG-1D of 1850 Squadron Royal Navy, circa 1945.

[Phas3e]

Nice big load of hogs you have here

I feel I can help Re the RNZAF bird

No kiwi Corsairs had yellow surrounds on the wing roundals

NZ5339 had no tail codes, and its nose codes though placed correctly were hand painted and underlined I can scan a pic of that for you.

The yellow surround on the fuselage roundal stopped at the white of the bars
and the blue centre was smaller than your version.

Its had at one time a yellow prop dome and had full tape on the fuel tank seams
(Later it was painted over to looks like yours but with overpainting marks and had its dome changed to red)

Although correct this aircraft did one time serve with No22 Sqn its more correct to label it No31(SU)
RNZAF fighters belonged to servicing units and were 'loaned' out to squadrons, NZ5201 for example was used by 11 different RNZAF squadrons

[BLOWHARD]

Ooops, see my reply to your P-40s

[Jarink]

Nice, clean profiles. The only thing I would change is to lighten up the rivets a bit.

[gamary]

Nice. Especially the French ones.

[JMSmith]

hi clave,

yes it's that nasty b'tard again, just a couple of suggestions, to be taken as constructive criticism, work on your highlights and shadows, especially the shadows, don't be afraid to go lots darker and bring it higher up the fuselage, if you are not sure how high, study the photos taken of the aircraft outdoors and see how the shadows work, this go's for all your profiles, it is a lot of hard work when first learning this but well worth it in the end.
secondly, try to stop using a line to show the outside shape of parts of the aircraft, instead use highlights and shadows, with smaller items you get better results by drawing it 4x larger then resize to fit the profile, you will be suprised how easy this is once you start doing it, you are on your way to being one of the top profilers, with the help of the guys on here it won't take you long.

just wish the buggers would help me out more now where's my calipers!

[AGNT_Matt]

just wish the buggers would help me out more now where's my calipers!

uh oh, wheres my excuse, think i'll hold off on a mozzie update pic for a short while....

[gamary]

just wish the buggers would help me out more now where's my calipers!

Sure. But where is the latest Seahawk update? Private Smith, you will report here every day at 1800 to show us your progress. That's an order!

BTW. I'd never thought of doing the detail in bigger size and then reducing it and now I feel very stupid for all that time spent squinting at my screen trying to get that 1/4-pixel right.

[JMSmith]

coming sir!