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7.
Paint and Finish
The surface of your Corsair with its silver top coat is almost ready to apply the final paint. Use a
ScotchBrite pad to roughen the surface slightly, just so that it breaks the shiny gloss. Use some
acetone or denaturized alcohol to clean the surface and remove any grease. Then tape off all
externally visible components or openings to protect the inside from any overspray. Of course,
remove engine and landing gear if you can. Do not use any primer!
Apply your scheme with any kind of 2 component polyurethane paint or base coat laquer. After
curing you should apply all trims and decals, before you finally shoot a very thin layer of flat clear
coat (or glossy, if the full scale plane you're replicating is a restored and shiny bird).
Now you can scratch the panel lines with a screw driver or steel ruler, chip color off the leading
edge areas and around rivets and hatches, if you want to create a scale "patina" on your plane. The
silver top coat of the fiberglass parts will shine through and look like beat up aluminum. Finally
use a pad of ScotchBrite and rub the surface in flight direction. Add a little dust of black charcoal
powder while you're doing this. The rest of patina will come by time...
After trimming and painting
the canopy frame, you need
to fit the clear canopy to the
inside, preferrably in two pieces, front and rear. Use ZAP
canopy glue or 30 min epoxy. It is very important that you
tape the canopy on to the fuselage during curing, so that it
stays in undistorted shape.
Instruction Manual F4U-1D Corsair
Cut and shape the vacuum formed radiator intake details,
paint and glue them in. Use some tape to grip and pull
them firmly from inside against the radiator inlet
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