After the trauma of a 4 kit buld, its nice to get back to some normallity and simplicity. Next victim on the workbench is the Academy 1/72nd P-47D.
For extras i am useing Aires resin sets for the pit, wheel bays and gun bays and True detail resin wheels. Markings are from LPS Hobby for an aircraft from the 396th FS, 359th FG, based at East Wretham in Norfolk. The decal sheet says june 44, but from the lack of invasion strips on the upper wings and the ragged lok of those under the fuselage, i would say somtime time later.
So far its been some resin clean up and puting a few pars together in the pit. The is a seat for the pit, i just forgot to put it in the picture.
And the wheels bays and gun bays. No assembely here just the usual clean up.
And thats it. They are now all in the shed having had a coat of primer, tomorrow i should be able to get them painted. Just need to do some research on the pit colour.
Sorry Bish about missing the part about the pit color. TJ is right and Humbrol 117 is said to be a good match. The wells and doors were yellow zinc chromate and Tamiya xf4 is a good match.
Thanks for the imput gusy. I have read about the Humbrol 117. Don’t have that to hand though so was thinking of adding some black to Zinc Chromate yellow. Was reading the article on IPMS Stockholm and they suggest that might have been what Republic as they took litterally a wrongly worded regulation.
I have the Xtracolor Zinc Chromate yellow so i will be using that for the gun bays and wheel wells.
Mancity, yep. There were only 2 USAAF fighter bases in Norfok, Wretham and Bodney. Both started out with 47’s and switched to 51’s. I was really glad to find some decals for 47’s at Wretham, and of course i have Blue nosed 51’s for Bodney.
Managed to get quite a bit done in the last week, going together pretty quick. After priming the pit, i used a mix of Zinc yellow and black, which is one of the possabilities suggested by IPMS Stockholm. Followed this with some dry brushing and flory wash.
And got some chopping done on the wings. Wheel wells removed and gun bays opened up.
And then time to get everything fitted. Went together pretty wel. Had to do a lot of thinning on the wings. The Aires set tells to to chop some of the fuselage where the wing joins it so the resin wheel wells fit in. But you have to cut a lot more than it says.
As you can see from the silver paint, i have been working on the seams. Still got a bit to do on those and get to work on the engine useing lawdogs tut.
Amazing that you can do all this precision cutting to a 1/72 scale. I guess my eyes are getting too old . Anyway I’m watching with great interest and awe.
Thanks Jay jay.Its actually more drilling than cutting. I drill holes around the edge just inside the panel and remove the main piece then fill it down to the edge.
This is a neat project Bish, and its looking really cool. I know what you are saying about being traumatized by a four kit build. I’m in the middle of one[:S]
