Quite nice! You should do a nice render with it (and yes… change the colours to something slightly more authentic ;))

Thanks guys!

Good to see you here too, Evžen!

James, the backgrounds are shot with a 6 MP digital SLR from an airliner. I think this one was taken from a Malev Airbus, flying from Hungary to England 🙂
I always take a camera with me when flying somewhere.

Here is a new render of this silver beauty 🙂

I hope you like it!

As promised, an update! I’ve started the model last weekend after finally deciding on the best set of blueprints:

It’s the intention to make a whole series of these, most likely including the F4U-1 “birdcage”, F4U-1A, F4U-1D/FG-1D (shown), F4U-4, F4U-5, F4U-7, Royal Navy Corsairs (with clipped wings) and possibly more…

Finding an accurate set of blueprints was a big challenge (I have compared over a dozen) and I believe these, drawn by Rikyu Watanabe, are the best. And for once, all different views match up too! Believe it or not, this is extremely rare! 🙂