Small Scale Military Headquarters

Well, it took me weeks and weeks of searching, but I finally found the corsair I was looking for. Found me a Big Hog at the Anaheim Plaza Wal Mart, and it's a nice one. They only had one left, and I was totally shocked to find the paint was just right (I'm real careful to get one with a clean paint job with no smudges or anything, and to get it on the first try was amazing). The bombs are the proper green, and the detail on this one is even better than its 21C 1/18 counterpart (don't own a BBI version).

My question is, did this particular paint scheme corsair carry rockets? Were they even available in Feb 1943? I usually don't care for a heavy ordinance load, but it does make the plane look pretty nifty all decked out...

Congrats on the find!!!!
I have also been anxiously awaiting that scheme (if they EVER get here) and I agree that with the rockets, the Corsair looks cool loaded out.. It really looks cool with the wings folded..

This was taken from Wikipedia..

Corsairs also served well as fighter-bombers in the Central Pacific and the Philippines. By the spring of 1944, Marine pilots were beginning to exploit the type's considerable capabilities in the close-support role, supporting amphibious landings with 450 kilogram (1,000 pound) bombs. The famed pilot Charles Lindbergh flew Corsairs with the Marines as a civilian technical advisor in order to determine how best to increase the Corsair's warload and effectiveness in the attack role. Lindbergh managed to get the F4U into the air with 1,800 kilograms (4,000 pounds) of bombs, with a 900 kilogram (2,000 pound) bomb on the centerline and a 450 kilogram (1,000 pound) bomb under each wing. In the course of such experiments, he performed strikes on Japanese positions during the battle for the Marshall Islands

Based on this an a couple of other notations in the article, the Corsair likely would not have been flying with rockets in Feb of '43.

Cool find! That plane has to have a nice scheme, though I'm pretty happy with my VMF-111 scheme. There are still a number of Corsairs in my area, all restocks of the origional shipment. They are the VMF-111 scheme, but when the first planes came out, the late-war Corsiar with the white tail (forgot the squadron) was also to be found.