Vought F7U Cutlass

Nathan Dempsey FINALLY! Been hunting this kit on evil-bay and finally snagged one without paying some insane amount.

Clifford Keesler You lucky dog you. LOL,

Nathan Dempsey Yeah my wife wasn't lucky enough to see me screaming YES YES!!

Maciej Bellos Good onne Nathan! Looking forward for the build.

Hanno Kleinecke Cutlass the gutless.... checkin' in !

Thomas Hopfensperger Hallo Hanno! Endlich Bilder!

Maciej Bellos Following!

Maciej Bellos This is a handful I hear, but by the time you get there you will be rather experienced!

Michael Hickey I wish some one would do a new 1/48 tooling of this long necked bird.

Jens an absolutely crazy construction but really interesting because and I would also say that would be very long a replacement with a new kit desirable

Igor Zdorovyak Do not look for easy ways? Of these firewood it is difficult to make a decent product. Good luck.

Michael Phillips A new tooling of this odd bird is definitely needed! But I do not see that happening any time soon. So it's the old Hobby Craft kit or nothing. I will probably get the vacuform canopy and the LSM cockpit set before I start this, so hopefully I can make something good out of it!

Michael Hickey I tried to build this beast last century, I was pretty new to the hobby back then and my skill level was not there nor were my patience & I went through my fair share of kits that did not survive being thrown Mach 2.1 across the room and into the bedroom wall (which at the time was brick)

Choppa Nutta I like the way you've done this, interesting plane too !!

Łukasz Gliński Very nice finish, I like it

Cristian Bordina I like it very much

Germen V very nice

Murad ÖZER Choppa, Lukasz, Cristian and Germen, thanks a bunch lads!

Burkhard D Gorgeous! Great job!

Erik Leijdens A masterpiece!

Ulf Petersen Excellent metal effects, Murad!

Maarten Kruizenga not sure about this one................VERY old skool but I got it for 'peanuts'

Ekki Good job.

Kerry COX This is really nice to see here, very well done .

ciufak Thank you. If you are interested as proceeded building, I invite you here: pwm.org.pl/viewtopic.php?f=12&t=75487. Best regards.

Ekki Good work.

Soeren . Nice builds

Maciej Bellos I need some help from all you people out there. I cannot determine what colour is used for the wheel wells. Fujimi states that they are silver, but considering that the 12 Photo Cutlasses were produced circa 1954-1955 I tend to accept that interior green is the correct one. As for the wheel well covers I think they where painted in aluminum dope or something.

Finally the cockpit seems to be grey with black consoles but the ejection seat is something of an unknown.

Any help would be much appreciated!

Mat

Urban Gardini I think that the use of interior green in the wheel bays was phased out around '52-53.

Maciej Bellos Hi Urban,

According to the following link:

tailspintopics.blogspot.gr/2..-from-blue-to-graywhite.html

white wheel wells were not officialy required until 1956. Before that they where sea blue, zinc chromate or white.

Since there were only 12 F7U-3P, all in natural finish, I would expect them to have the wheel wells in zinc chromate or interior green and not white or blue. The argument is that since they were not painted ever until their retirement in 1959 (even the official switch to light gull grey over white was not applied to the photo cutlasses) and remained in natural metal finish I suppose the wheel wells were not painted either. Just my two cents.

Does anyone else have any other ideas?

Maciej

Urban Gardini Nice info mate! My conclusion of that is that the wheel wells would've been left unpainted. But painted wheel wells do spice up a NMF bird quite nice.

Christian Bruer Like the Phantoms predecessor. Very nice and clean work, well done!

Bill Gilman Nice kit!

Jose Miguel Rodriguez Beautiful!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Bill Gilman Very nice kit! I hope you can find it!

Philip De Keyser Hi Duncan, this will be my new project after the P-51 D, this is a veryfine detailed kit from Fujimi, I hope you will find it, these are out of production, great luck with the search
Greetz Phil

Jose Miguel Rodriguez Duncan the kit is beautiful!!!!!!!!!!!!! When I finished the prowler I will attack the box...

Duncan Cook This Airplane is just awesome.

MoJo Hi Duncan soll ich den Bausatz am 29.11 mitbringen?

Duncan Cook Ihr macht mich arm.

MoJo must ja nicht kann ich auch bauen

Augie I want the :48 version of this bird..

Duncan Cook 48 is the wrong scale my dear, join the light side.

Augie With my eyes I need 48 to see what I'm doing half the time

Aris aka Amen inspirational results so far.it makes me wanna build a navy one.Very nice painting.

Dave Flitton Nice build!

Clifford Keesler Looking very good to me,I like the pre-shading.

Philip De Keyser Thanks mates

Pierre-Christian Baudru Very nice job ! Cheers.

Philip De Keyser Thanks Pierre

Markus Kutsch Superb looking cockpit!

Philip De Keyser Thanks Markus

Holger Kranich Amazing brilliant pre-shading! Nice ´lil stocky dude!

Bill Gilman Nice work, Philip! Beautiful rendition of what, in my mind, is not an ugly plane! You did well with the flap actuators, I ignored them completely when I built mine about 20 years ago.

Philip De Keyser Thanks Bill for your nice words, I must say that the actuators come out well, I'm happy with the result and it was a joy to built that Fujimi kit
@Holger, thanks mate for looking and the nice words,
and now up to the next project!!!
Greetz Phil

Frank Krause Hu, Phil - next project? What will that be?

stefan natus Well done phil,nice preshade.

Philip De Keyser Hi Frank, I think it will be a Stuka or a Sepecat Jaguar?

Frank Krause If it would be my choice.... you already did a "modern" plane now. Time for something older...

Jose Miguel Rodriguez Philip the Stuka will be wonderful!!!!

Augie Oooo looking good

Dave Flitton Makes me want to build mine!!

Bill Gilman This is a nice little kit if you can find it!

Vitor Costa yes it is. i already built one but i dont have it any more.