1/48 Hobbycraft F4U-1 Birdcage

Gallery Article by Serge Dompierre on June 29 2009

 

This 1/48 scale Hobbycraft birdcage Corsair was built OOTB and painted with Testor's Model Master enamels; decals are from the kit.

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The model is for a Vought F4U-1A Corsair birdcage of VMF 124 squadron of US Marines Corps based at Guadalcanal in 1943.  

This plane was flown by LT Kenneth Walsh.

Serge Dompierre

Photos and text © by Serge Dompierre