P-47 "Jug" Group Build

Greg, any chance the original aircraft happen to have a big paint chip in that spot?  That looks kind of good

Progress has been slow.  If you are right handed (south paws just flip this around), be careful not slice open the tip of your left thumb.  It is amazing the multitude of things that require that little body part.  Tough to hold the tiny parts for clean up etc.

I glued the seat to the bracket and for the life of me can’t find it anywhere.  I can understand the little noseeum parts… but a seat and bracket?  I made a new one from a piece of soda can using a P-40 seat as a guide.  Fortunately for some reason there are 2 seat brackets in the kit.  I realized after the fact the Jug seat did not have the ribs.  Oh well. Except for the PE IP and a resin gunsight, the rest of the pit is OOB.  I am beginning to see why everyone says what a great kit the Tamiya 47 is.

Marc: Great cockpit job !!!

The seat is exceptional - much better than original plastic piece :)

Sorry about your tumb tip, however you describe it in such funny way

What resin set did you use for the gunsight ???? 

Beautiful seat, Mark! Infact, there is a lot of nice work going on here!

Mind if I get in? I started a Hase 1/48 bubble top lastnight.

Welcome htshooter !

You are in ! 

wing_nut wrote:

I made a new one from a piece of soda can using a P-40 seat as a guide.

A piece of soda can? For real? I can't believe I never thought of that. So much for all those PE sets (well, maybe not )!

Do you have to prime soda can or can you fire acrylics right onto it?

Mike: I was curious what take you so long ...

Marc: it is a very good idea - I wish I know it while sufffering with tamiya spit seat - it is really bad. Your process would be a great improvement.

hkshooter wrote:

Made some more progress on the Jug tonight. All seam and panel line work. I'll post first pics when something exciting happens. Like paint maybe.

Post some WIP photos, those are always more interesting.

I don't know if I can speak for others, but i like watching a kit go together from sprues to finished model.

-Fred

Don't have aby pictures yet, only did a little cleaning up and test fitting.  Seems to me, it's a big version of Tamiya's beauty, with a little more detail.  Man there are a LOT of parts in this thing!  Going to have to work slow and take time with this baby.  Anyway, I should have some pictures in a day or two. 

Regards,

Freddie from LI

All right. Got the first paint on tonight. To follow should be three more colors. This one is Duraluminum. Upcomming should be white alum, dark alum and aluminum. I'm thinking of trying some chrome!

Ok, got two more colors on. I don't know how much more I'm going to do. I'll look it over as I go along and decide if it needs anything else as far as paint goes. Hopefully the color contrast shows in the pics.

looks very good ! what did you use for masking ?

However, I have an impression it is a Hasegawa 1/48 Bubbletop ? Am I right ?

For some reason the subject sticks to th post

hkshooter wrote:

This one is Duraluminum. Upcomming should be white alum, dark alum and aluminum. I'm thinking of trying some chrome!

Hey hkshooter, what kind of paint are you using? Can't say I recognize the color names.

Whatever it is, it sure goes on SMOOTH!

By golly it sure does, doesn't it! Hmmm.

Yup, this is Hasegawa's 1/48th bubble top. Making is done with Tamiya tape and blue painters tape.

dupes wrote:

hkshooter wrote: This one is Duraluminum. Upcomming should be white alum, dark alum and aluminum. I'm thinking of trying some chrome! Hey hkshooter, what kind of paint are you using? Can't say I recognize the color names. Whatever it is, it sure goes on SMOOTH!

Dupes, all paints are the Alclad line. Tonight I'm using another color on the wings to offset more panels.

Hi. Is this build still open? I have a Monogram P-47 Bubbletop I started when I was 18 (I'll be 53 Dec 2) and would like to finish it. I also bought a newer release (same model, different box and markings) which I could build at the same time. I thought I would build one camo, the other bare metal. I've mainly been doing cars lately, like the last 5-6 years. This is only my second post. I like to follow along to pick up ideas. Thanks.

Pastor Richard Whiting

Palominas, AZ

Welcome to the Group Richard !

This is a right place to ask questions, post pictures (not just final model but Work in progress is more than welcome) and share experience.

This Sunday there is an "Open Cockpit Dat" at New England Air Museum (at Bradley Field).

I plan to go there with my camera focusing on:

P-47D-30

Corsair

Hellcat

If you need any picture of the collection out there let me know before Sunday. You can see the current pictures here:  http://gzt.myjalbum.net/NEAirMuseum/

make sure you click on PLAY

Oh man! That's a pretty serious collection they have down there. Really wish I could make it this weekend! Maybe someday...it's not THAT far away.

Hey, if you want to grab some extra pics of....ha! You already are. I was going to say snag a bunch of the Hellcat, if I had to pick one. Sweet!

I'd appreciate some detail shots of the corsair, if it wouldn't be too much of a bother.  I'm interested in things like the cockpit, wheel wells, wing folds, gun/ammo bays or anything that may show interesting details.

Thanks,

Fred

Just some more progress pics.  I'm considering the painting to be done.  But, I ordered some polishing powders from hawkeyehobbies, so I want to try those out before I start decaling.

Anyway, on to the pics

Enjoy

-Fred

Little more work while paint dries. I decided I wanted to have the cowl flaps open but I didn't want to order and wait for a resin part. This is what I came up with.