**** DONE: GB-63 1/48 P-47D Thunderbolt - Stormy Weather

[Wayne Little]

 

[Totalize]

Thanks for your input guys.

 

[Totalize]

Here's my first build update. Working through the first steps which is always the cockpit. Placards and stencils added from Airscale. Tamiya has you painting the headrest brown but in the pictures I have seen they are usually black so I went with that. I also accented the rivets that hold it place on the armour plate. I left the map box in yellow zinc chromate for visual interest. Might not be accurate for a D-20 P-47D but perhaps on a P-47C. Just now working through the IP.

 

[Crimea_River]

Looking very smart David.

 

[Totalize]

Thanks for having a look and commenting Andy. Much appreciated.

 

[Airframes]

Looks the biz !

 

[fubar57]

Love it

 

[Totalize]

Thanks a bunch guys.

 

[Wurger]

 

[le_steph40]

 

[Gnomey]

Lovely work so far!

 

[Vic Balshaw]

Great detail.

 

[Totalize]

Thanks Guys, I am enjoying the build so far. Haven't had much bench time but despite that I think I am making good progress. I should mention that I used a mixture of RAF cockpit green from Tamiya and AK real color U.S. cockpit interior green to get the colour used.

 

[Totalize]

Some pictures of the cockpit tub dry fitted. Just finishing off the gunsight which I still need to add. Also, wondering if I should add the wiring behind the IP. Not sure if you would see it or not once the windscreen is on. I should probably check it.

 

[Totalize]

Guys, need your help. What are these? I don't see them on any P-47D's and they are not on the Tamiya box art. After scouring the net I found the below picture which is apparently a P-47D-22 with a Malcolm hood. Are they mirrors?

 

[Wurger]

It looks like ... not on all P-47s with the Malcolm Hood can be found that. But indded in a few it may be noticed.

the pic source: the net.

 

[Airframes]

Yep, they're mirrors. I've seen them on at least one Razorback with the "standard" hood too, and they were fitted at unit level as required by individual pilots.

 

[Wurger]

I agree. The last shot I uploaded above shows the P-47 with the standard hood.

 

[Totalize]

Thanks Gents. They seem pretty rare. My D-20 didn't have them but I drilled out the holes. Now i have to fill them.

 

[Gnomey]

Good work so far!