**** DONE: 1/48 P-47M - Aircraft Nose Art GB.

• Aug 23, 2013

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Cheers guys. Terry, you can come back now.

 

• Aug 23, 2013

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Can't - I've lost my keys and the door's locked. Who did that? Bet it was that Swettish bloke ...........

 

• Aug 23, 2013

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He's got issues Terry.
Stupendous work Andy, that is looking spectacular.

 

• Aug 23, 2013

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From your previous builds that I have looked at.I can see why you are a judge and not a player

 

• Aug 24, 2013

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Pretty good work there Andy!

 

• Aug 24, 2013

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Good work so far Andy!

 

• Aug 28, 2013

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Wonderful K-14 Andy

 

• Aug 28, 2013

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Thanks very much guys.

 

• Aug 28, 2013

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Great looking cockpit Andy.

 

• Aug 28, 2013

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Outstanding job!

 

• Aug 28, 2013

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Thanks Jerry, David. Shifted back to the Mossie now.

 

• Aug 29, 2013

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Wow Andy that pit is nice and a nice gunsight always finishes it off right.

 

• Aug 29, 2013

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Thanks Kevin. Should get back to it in the next coupla weeks.

 

• Aug 31, 2013

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Awesome work Andy!








......and I do not, have anyone's keys!

 

• Aug 31, 2013

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Thanks Jan. Still working on the Mossie preferentially. Once I get tired of that, I'll be back to this one!

 

• Sep 3, 2013

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Geez - setting the bar very high with this one - excellent so far Andy.

Cheers

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• Sep 3, 2013

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Crimea_River said:

The cockpit tub, seat, belts, and sidewalls have all received their PE bits. The starboard wall got an oxygen hose made of guitar string (oddly, the new parts Tamiya provided for the M model left the hose off, whereas the D wall has it) and everything got a mild spray of Future to give the surfaces a semigloss finish and to reduce the gloss of the PE.

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Crap, I never thought of guitar strings and I play guitar. Tried that idea with an acoustic steel string. Not a great idea. Grabbed a classical string this weekend and the music store's broken sets bin. Now, that works just fine. Thanks for the idea, Andy!

Dale

 

• Sep 3, 2013

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Peter, Dale, thanks for the feedback.

Actually, here's a question for the Thunderbolt experts. All profiles I've seen of the P-47 M show what I'll call a low tail fillet running along the top of the fuselage. The fillet is straight and meets the fuselage without changing direction. The N model had a taller fillet and started at the forward end with a rounded section. The profile of "Fireball" on page 1 shows this latter fillet, despite this being an M model. The picture that Paul (Mcdrow) posted shows what looks like this taller fillet in a bright aluminum colour, though it almost looks like a defect in the photo. I've seen no other pictures to support the presence of this later style fillet.

Does anyone know of instances of the M's having the N-style fillet? Any evidence of "Fireball" having this?

 

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• Sep 3, 2013

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Hopefully someone will fill you in soon...

 

• Sep 4, 2013

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Sorry can't help Andy...