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Crimea_River said:
Nice stuff guys. Glenn, I hope those decals work for you. My HC Hurricane decals were utter crap.
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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.
 
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
 
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
 
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' !!!

 
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 !!
 
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