Hello all,
Here is a recent completion . . . A 1/72 Haswgawa P-47D Razorback. BIG STUD.
The kit is pretty old - so the gear bays were not detailed at all and the cockpit was VERY sparse. My solution - which also helped me build it more quickly - was to do it in-flight, wheels up, with the pilot figure.
The base is just a piece of pine 1x2, cut into the kindof stubby rounded profile of the P-47's fuselage.
Various shades of OD and greys in MM acrylics, sludge wash to accent panel lines. Oooo I forgot . . . I'll probably hit it with some pastel chalks in places.
Decals were old - and brittle - they would have been unusable if I had waited much longer to build ths one. No fit problems at all.
All-in-all a fun build. Even though this is an old kit - the surface detail is really nice.
Chris