Build the Magic Factory Corsair - Part 1: Cockpit and Fuselage 

Hi John, Great build so far, that cockpit looks great. Look forward to the other parts and love the music 😀👍🏻 Jason 🇬🇧

Great to see you building this. John I built both of mine wings extended. You just cut the folded wing braces and reposition them as extended and then the folded wing parts mate up perfectly as extended wings. You just have to fill in a few tiny doors that are part of the folding wing mechanism. It’s an easy modification if you don’t want a folded wing version.

Hi John that is a great start to the F4 Corsair, that Quinta cockpit set looked absolutely outstanding, looking forward to the next update, very bedt regards from a Kiwi living in Australia, happy modelling, Les

Lol great intro to Sean @ Primed model works I do follow, great work on the MF F4U John

Great video John. Really enjoyed the discussion on using masks for the national insignias. You’ve given me the courage to try doing this.

I’m working on the 2nd plane now. It’s a nice kit, but no tamiya. I made a couple of goofs on the fuselage and ended up using that fuselage for the folded wings version. The 2nd fuselage is complete and I have been working on the wings this weekend. I don’t care for the order of assembly - I always leave the landing gear to the end to keep from busting off from handling. Magic Factory would have you attach the landing gear before you even attach the wings to the fuselage - dumb. Overall decent kit(s) and certainly better than the Academy F4U- kit I recently built.

Worthy of noting that the US Navy did not clear the Corsair for carrier duties until the Royal Navy showed them how to land them safely on RN Carriers only 2/3 (or less) the size of the US Fleet carriers. (The RN had immediately seen the issue and devised a work-around with the landing proceedure and signals, which the US Navy hastily adopted. A modernised variant is still used as a standby proceedure, today AFAIK.) Personally I think the Magic factory kit practically obsoletes the 30 year old Tamiya Corsair kit, having better details, a 99% complete R2800 in the cowling, not a 1 piece bulkhead mount engine and the cockpit almost does not need AM details, apart from Harness. IF you look at the sprues there is a spare set of inboard flaps with the mounting step cut out already, not a scribed panel. This strongly hints that an F4U-1D (and later) marks will follow as the step cutout was introduced with the D Model and found on all Corsairs after that _4,-5, etc.

Just a comment for the algorithm

I wish you could pick this up as a single kit. I’m not a cheapskate, but I haven’t seen the kit in any of my LHS’s for under $150.00, and I’m not a fan of a mandatory folded wing.

Does anyone still use Testors products? It's been over 20 years and I want to try to create something that's new to me. I've noticed a different brand of glue and paint now with modelers, however. Can someone break it down for me?