Hi to all!!
Well, after building only armor for the past years, I was always wanting to build a P47, from Mexico Squadron 201 during WWII who fought at the Philippines. 
Since it is my firts plane, I did not want to buy an expensive $200 USD kit, nor any aftermarket kits, e.g., seat, cabin, engine, etc. I only bought an Aztec model decals from 201 SQ.
The kit did had a LOT of fitting issues, misalignments and not clear instructions on where to put things, being my firts plane I had to sometimes wonder how to glue and secure parts. 
is this the same case with other kits?? 
The build was fast due to the very small number of parts, it is much easier than a tank with small suspension and track link parts BUT it is more difficult to keep parts aligned being the nature of the tolerances of a plane. Also, any damage you made to a tank, is always a battle damage, but with planes this is not possible, like a missing tail...
I painted with Alclads, and also it is very difficult to use them, I had some orange skin texture in some parts, painted two tone aluminum for variation.
Finally decals, which also I had some problems with Mexican colros in the tail, so, I decided to paint them,
being armor guy, I do not like things "clean" I gave it some sooth pigmentings, dark wash, and chipping on some areas.
The cockpit looks good for me, I wanted to build a better seating, but...naahh... not for this one. I do made my first scrathcbuilt of the seat bealts. Made with fasteners and harness of a 1/35 fuel tank of an IS3. Left other parts unpainted to make it look as bronze.
All in all, I like how it turned out, I want to donate it to my local state army museum... 
Im making a wooden base with the plane seating in the airfield, with the tail seating on a grass.
What do you think?...now..I think Im hooked with planes....or maybe a choper...
See you!
