T Bolt's 1:1 P-47 Cockpit

[Airframes]

Good stuff mate.

 

[Vic Balshaw]

You're doing good Glenn.

 

[T Bolt]

Results of the last few days work.

Support ribs and cockpit sills painted with Chromate primer (1) installed (2) and then the windscreen put back in place.

 

[Crimea_River]

Awesome Glenn!

 

[Airframes]

Excellent work Glenn.

 

[Gnomey]

Lovely work Glenn!

 

[Geedee]

That, me 'ole mate... is looking the 'Dogs danglies' ! (its Ok, it an English saying...means bl**dy well done done and such like ). You should be mighty proud of what you're pruducing !!

 

[Aaron Brooks Wolters]

Superb work Glenn! It's looking great sir.

 

[Wayne Little]

Excellent!!

 

[GrauGeist]

It's really shaping up...looking forward to seeing it completed!

 

[Rocketeer]

Lovely work Glenn

 

[Tony Hill]

Very Nice Glenn!!

 

[Lucky13]

 

[T Bolt]

Thanks guys, I wish I could say I have more to show but other things have gotten in the way of work on the cockpit, though I have acquired a large hunk of oak to make a mold for bending all the upper fuselage side frames. Just have to get myself down in the basement to go ahead and make it

 

[B29WereWolf]

Do you think these would be useful?

http://www.ebay.com/itm/P47-Thunder...891?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item19d72308f3

 

[T Bolt]

Something like that would have saved me a lot of time when I was making up my panel. I came up with all the dimensions my blowing up a picture and scaling everything off the computer screen. Neither one there is quite the one I did. The P-47D one is an earlier model with a completely different panel and the P-47N wile closer to the P-47D-30 I did, there are still quite a few differences. If I had this back then I probably would have gone with the earlier model "D"

 

[Tony Hill]

If it is any comfort Glenn, the Spitfire ones he has are very inaccurate! So you wouldn't have wanted to copy the P-47 without some detailed checking.

D

 

[Rustybugs]

Great Stuff!! Can't wait for some updated photo's. Looks fantastic! Keep at it!

 

[T Bolt]

Thanks! I haven't worked on it in a wile now. I really need to dust it off and get back to work on it. Not too far from being able to start putting on the skin.

 

[Geedee]

Git 'r done !!