**** DONE: GB-56 1/48 P-47D "Bubbletop" - Thunderbolts and Lightnings

[Gnomey]

Nice work so far!

 

[T Bolt]

Beautiful work on that cockpit Steph. And I too and am still using enamels and will until I absolutely have to switch.

 

[le_steph40]

Hello,

Thanks for the comments.
I prefer work with enamels for the little surfaces or details but, here, in France, since several months, it's hard to buy Humbrol or Revell enamels. Numerous shops no longer stock this type of paint...
Cockpit defitively finished, the only work on the gunsight was to remove a little thickness from the glass. One of the 2 gunsights in the box is the good one for my project, so, no resin gunsight to make.

 

[Wurger]

 

[Airframes]

Looks great Steph.

 

[F-104nut]

Looking really great !!

 

[N4521U]

May I ask?



Can I send you my cockpits to finish off???????

 

[Wayne Little]

Very Nice work Steph

 

[Totalize]

Nice start there Steph.

 

[fubar57]

Great looking innards Steph. I was getting ready to seal up the cockpit when I remembered that the wiring behind the I.P. would be visible. Holes drilled and waiting for paint to dry on the wiring

 

[Gnomey]

Good work so far!

 

[le_steph40]

Hello,

Work of the week: engine
Photo 1: holes drilled for the ignition wires (electric copper wires)
Photo 2: painting
Photo 3: weathering
Photo 4: ignition wires glued
Photo 5: arrangement/shaping (?) of the wires of the first row
Photo 6: second row glued and ignition wires of the first row painted
Photo 7: Engine done

 

[fubar57]

Great looking power plant

 

[Ralph Haus]

Amazing detail work. Very nice.....

 

[Vic Balshaw]

We'll done, looks amazing.

 

[Airframes]

Great work Steph.

 

[N4521U]

Bravo!

 

[Crimea_River]

Start her up!

 

[le_steph40]

Hello,

Some work: chromate yellow applied (Humbrol enamel 81 pale yellow + some Humbrol 78 cockît green)... Yes, I know, it's still enamels

 

[Wurger]