ebay "Silver Lining" turned to stone for me.

Manx Cat has a little negative angle. Yet I don't have enough info about wing incidence of CL planes, but I think that zero angle don't make any effect for a small model like this.

If you want duplicate paint scheme I think that this color is suitable:

For silver colouring paint markers are useful. Need to try with a mist of clear Rust Oleum spray compatibility.

https://www.ebay.com/itm/374135286433?hash=item571c336aa1:g:zocAAOSwQNxgvbAz&var=643042785688

Hi Bob, any achievement building that interesting model?

That sure looks great! I like how it turned out.

Wow! Great job in the canopy. Is easy enough to remove? It would be easy to make a buck and water bottle canopy from it.

What is it made of right now? Balsa? If so, then make a small box about 1/4" deeper than the canopy, place and seal canopy in center, and full the cavity with plaster.
Modgepodge some strips of newspaper over the piece ala paper-mache into the "floor" of the box, then pour in the plaster.
Flip, remove original buck, and let the block dry over the nex5 few days. Seal and reverse for new bucks.
Reseal the cavity in your mold, and pour in the next plaster load. Wait a few days, and pop plaster buck out. Let the new buck cook-off another few days. If the mold isn't damaged, make more.

Then, using plaster buck(s), vac, press, or shrink plastic over your buck.
As round as this one is, I'd do the press version first. It would be the easiest one to make with all the tools you have..

rsv1cox wrote:Different, the engine is inverted.  Got to find out which one came first.  Missing canopy but otherwise complete and undamaged.

Bob, this is the first time I've seen an inverted Wen-Mac version F4U. Perhaps the first iteration? Then Wen-Mac uprighted the engine, to make it easier for the neophyte to start?

You have an excellent knack for bringing up model versions that I have never seen.

1:1 size final sketch, A4 size (invalid)

Hi Bob, I realized that you are going to use 3 ins Sig airfoil for wings, so I have been changing plan for 3 ins wing chord. That final sketch is invalid. I am going to send a new A4 full size plan as soon as possible.

Hey Bob, an even easier method to make a clear canopy is just melt a water bottle over your wooden form canopy that you already shaped. Heat gun is sufficient. Then just trim and glue it in place. Nothing wrong with the balsa one though.

Wing chord of Silver Lining changed to 3 ins, instead of 2 1/2 ins. Wingspan is 10 ins as I recognized, but it is easy to enlarge the wingspan to 12 ins if needed.

A plywood doubler piece glued on back of firewall. Washers may also be used for this purpose, but I think that using plywood doubler is safer than washers against breakage of engine mounting lugs. Landing gear wire made from 3/32 in wire and sewn & glued on firewall piece. Firewall fillet made from a carved and shaped balsa block, then cut to half and each part glued on each side of fuselage. I think that 1 in diameter wheels are right size for this model.

Because the model is going to be painted in gray and it is difficult to recognize it's shade, then the letterings are in three different shades of light grays. Page need to be printed on clear vinyl adhesive back decal sheet. After applying them on model, then letters can be painted with a metallic silver ink paint marker. Decals can also be used without painting them with a paint marker, in that case using the lighter gray shade of lettering is enough.

A4 sheet full size 1:1 plan:
https://www.mediafire.com/file/6t94xr54btkrkb4/Silver_Lining_Plan_A4.png/file

A4 sheet decal page:
https://www.mediafire.com/file/3libe7apdd65eq8/Silver_Lining_Decals_A4.png/file

Metallic silver paint pen is available like this: