**** DONE: 1/48 P-47D-25 "Coffey's Pot" - Allied Manufactured Aircraft

Airframes · Apr 5, 2015

Looking the biz !

Crimea_River · Apr 5, 2015

Agreed.

Donivanp · Apr 5, 2015

Cool subject. I did Coffey's Pot after reading "Hell Hawks" by Robert Dorr. I used the Tamiya kit but not up to you level by any means.

Totalize · Apr 5, 2015

Thanks for stopping by and having a look.

Cheers,
Dave.

Wayne Little · Apr 6, 2015

Nothin' wrong with that pit...

JKim · Apr 6, 2015

Nice work on the Jug!

Totalize · Apr 8, 2015

Wayne, John,

Thanks for checking in on the build.

I finished off the cockpit by adding some led wire to the backside of the instrument panel then mounted the pit to the starboard fuselage half. Here are some shots of it with both halves of the fuselage dry-fitted which I must say fit surprisingly well for such an old kit. For the wiring I used a reference picture of an un-restored P47D. This particular P47 is/was apparently rare because as I seem to recall a lot of these P-47's went to the U.S Air National Guard after the war who then painted the cockpits black. This one was destined for the ANG but it didn't get a cockpit re-paint so it was left in its original WWII colours. I posted a pic below. One thing I noticed is the area behind the instrument panel. It's not painted Dark Dull green but an interior green or maybe zinc Chromate Green? Funny how you can see new things when you look at a photo a few times. There looks like a what might be a glide slope indicator/reference panel? in the upper left of the IP that may not be original but not sure.

Wurger · Apr 9, 2015

Airframes · Apr 9, 2015

Very nice work.

JKim · Apr 9, 2015

It's shaping up nicely! I always have that same experience of noticing things about my build through the pictures that I post.

Gnomey · Apr 9, 2015

Good work so far!

Crimea_River · Apr 9, 2015

Very nice work Dave.

Wayne Little · Apr 10, 2015

I like it, well done Dave

Aaron Brooks Wolters · Apr 10, 2015

Excellent job Dave! Cockpit looks great!

Catch22 · Apr 12, 2015

Awesome job Dave!

Donivanp · Apr 13, 2015

Hope I'm not intruding, I have some shots of Tarheel hal from Galveston a few year back, thought you might want to look, maybe they'll help.

Wurger · Apr 13, 2015

Wayne Little · Apr 14, 2015

Wow top shots there Don.

Totalize · Apr 14, 2015

Don,

Thanks very much.Nice pictures there especially of the landing gear. This particular aircraft looks like it has the late P/W R-2800 Double Wasp Engine. My particular aircraft being a -25 Block had the P/W R-2800-59 series engine which had the more cone shaped governor and turtle back Magnetos. Unfortunately, the kit doesn't come with the aforementioned magnetos. Vector makes a nice resin engine set that would be perfect but the price is astronomical so I will try and scratch the magnetos.

Crimea_River · Apr 14, 2015

Dave, I have an extra set of Tamiya turtlebacks. If you want them, I can drop them in the mail for you.

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