T Bolt
Colonel
I never trust Hobby Craft decals and only put them on by wetting the surface of the model with Future instead of water. You have to clean-up after with a Q-tip dipped in Windex, but they always stick and I never have silvering.
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Crimea_River
Marshal
Didn't even get to that point. The roundels were so far off register that they were unusable.
So much for quality control eh?
Aaron Brooks Wolters
Brigadier General
This showed up today, got it for 25 smacks off Amazon from a Japanese hobby shop.
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Benevolens Magister
Nice catch Aaron - it's much more than £25 in the UK, so over $36, probably nearer $45.
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Benevolens Magister
Nice catch Aaron !
It's around £35 in the UK, so about $50.
It's around £35 in the UK, so about $50.
T Bolt
Colonel
Very nice deal there Brooks. I've got that one in my stash and I think I paid about 30 bucks for it and thought that was a deal.
ajd3530
Airman
From my understanding, the nifty thing with the M is that you end up with Alot of usable spare parts. Doesn't it come with a Curtiss Electric and 2 different Hamilton Standard props? Among other things
Crimea_River
Marshal
Yes, if I recall, several props and also different engine magnetos.
ajd3530
Airman
In fact bow that I think of it, I believe from what I read (I read it in the internet, so it must be true) one can build ANY variant of the post -25 block D's or M from this kit.
T Bolt
Colonel
The Tamiya P-47M kit comes with the oridinal cuffed Curtiss Electric non-paddle prop, The cuffed Curtiss Electric symmetrical paddle blade prop, The cuffed Curtiss Electric asymmetrical paddle blade prop, and the Hamilton Standard paddle blade prop, so you have the choice of all four props ever used on the Thunderbolt. And best of all it comes with an additional reduction gear housung part to change the earlier model Pratt & Whitney R-2800 to a later R-2800 "C"-series used in the P-47M and P-47N
Good stuff!
Donivanp
Major
I might mention it also has three or four different spine fillets so you can do any variant of -25 D.
Crimea_River
Marshal
Yes it does
Aaron Brooks Wolters
Brigadier General
Four different props, two sets of drop tanks; 108s and the 150s, two gear boxes, two sets of mags, dropped flaps, open or closed cowl flaps, and the list goes on, seven sprues in all.
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Benevolens Magister
Darned good value for money in your case then, Aaron.
I bought a couple of resin Hamilton Standard props for Pp-47s, from Ultracast in Canada. With the cost of the props, and the Import Duty, the total wasn't that far off what you paid for the entire kit !
After that, needing a third HS prop, I made my own from a kit hub and Mosquito 'paddle blades' !!!
I bought a couple of resin Hamilton Standard props for Pp-47s, from Ultracast in Canada. With the cost of the props, and the Import Duty, the total wasn't that far off what you paid for the entire kit !
After that, needing a third HS prop, I made my own from a kit hub and Mosquito 'paddle blades' !!!
My Imperial Japanese Navy fleet grew some more....first delivery...and some detail of the 1/700 cruiser i am doing, the IJN Tone
Airframes
Benevolens Magister
That's a heck of a lot of detail in such a small model. Last time I built a small-scale ship was back in the 1960's, with the Airfix HMS Cossack, which was crude compared to that !!
Donivanp
Major
I used to do some of the water line ships, 1/700. but I just can't seem to get past the price they are asking these days for them.