This model is built from the 1/48 scale Monogram
P-47D kit. Work done on this kit is:
- rescribed the panel lines
- used some of the Eduard photoedge set for
this kit.
- used True Detail bulged wheels for this kit.
- used Squadron's vacuformed windshield
The
Eduard photoetch set provides the user with photoetch wheel well panels and
wheel well ribs. The use of the wheel well panel will cover over the
wing to fuselage seam that is unavoidable with this kit. Of course, all
details inside the wheel well need to be removed before using these parts.
From this set, I only used the wheel well parts, the bomb propeller, the
exhaust covers on the belly of the fuselage just behind the cowl, the exhaust
cover at mid fuselage and the landing gear connector link with the gear
door.
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The kit's throttle quadrant is not well detailed
because it is very thin. Hence, I cut it out and made a new one
using styrene sheet build up. I added the throttle links and throttle
handles.
I thought I would add a personal touch to the
bomb by adding an airmail delivery message that an US crew might want to give
to the Der Fuhrer.
I gave the model some light weathering. I
don't prescribe to the school of heavy weathering because I don't believe a
good Crew Chief would allow "his" plane to be in bad shape.
I will be striping the paint off of this model and
use it to experiment with different kind of natural metal finish. I saw
a spectacularly finished NM paint job on a P-47D while I was in the
Flight 66 model shop in Paris. I will try to achieve that used metal
finish on this model.
Wayne
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