What’s wrong with this picture?*
(Below) What is this thingamabob and why has it never appeared on any model kit of the original aircraft? (And yes, it appeared on every plane in this series.)**
My friend Dana Bell has earned a sterling worldwide reputation for digging out the most interesting technical details on military aircraft and camouflage.
One thing I’ve noticed over the years is that he’s become even more uncompromising about leaving no stone unturned in his quest to provide us modelers with new, often unexpected, but proven information about many of our favorite planes and camouflage colors and systems.
Don’t get me wrong: he’s the nicest guy in the world, and he’s always been a stickler for accuracy in the multitude of books he’s written. But he’s become a veritable pit bull when it comes to digging where no one else has thought to look for important information–general as well as detailed–that in many cases has changed our fundamental understanding about all kinds of things.
Now he’s done it again. He recently released the latest in his series of Aircraft Pictorials: No. 8, F4U-1 Corsair, Vol 2. As with Vol 1, he’s going to change your understanding of these relatively early Corsairs. I’m not selling them (I don’t sell books), but I got a copy last week and it simply blew me away.
The two “teaser” pics above (published here with his permission) are just a couple of examples of the material he unearthed from official US Navy documents and Vought, Brewster, and Goodyear contract files. Most of the pics have never been seen before either.
You can pick up your own copy of this must-have Corsair book directly from Dana here. I have nothing to do with his offer; you’ll buy direct from him through Amazon.
Good luck and good modeling,
Dave
* See page 22
** See page 53