See! Oortiz!
Now that is what I do with ships. I find that more to my liking than just O.O.B.! T.B.
OK FSM, this is my last post. I was able to get over the final hurdles and finish this one up.
First, I had to fix a small boo-boo with the bazooka tubes. I accidentally broke off one of the mounting pins. A piece of fine wire to the rescue!
Under paint and installed, it isn’t even noticeable. But that wasn’t the worst of it. I had to figure out how to source a tailwheel. As it turns out, I built this same boxing as Little Chief a few years back. Luckily for me, I was able to wiggle the tailwheel loose. I decided to use this as an opportunity to cast my first ever resin replacement part. A while back, my wife bought me a complete casting kit, but I had never used it…until yesterday.
I glued the master to a piece of resin block that I had (luckily) sitting around.
Then I went ahead and jumped into the process.
And luckily for me, it worked out well enough.
I made a couple of mistakes with process, but I’m satisfied with my first effort. Painted, weathered, and installed, it looks good enough.
So, with that, the fork has been stuck in this one!
It’s painted with AK Real Colors lacquers and MM and Testors enamels. Weathered with water color pencils, washes, and oils. Decals are from the spares drawer, but the heart nose art was cut from a hand-drawn stencil. The gear door retraction struts, radio mast, bazooka tubes, bombs, and fuel tank are from the spares box. The blast tubes are from Tamiya’s Jug. The pitot is scratch built, and the tail wheel is my first ever attempt at casting a resin replacement part.
And here it is with the same boxing I built up as Little Chief a few years back.
So, this one’s done! I’m ready for the next challenge(s). Thanks for sticking with me, and I hope you enjoyed the ride. As usual, comments, questions, and criticisms are welcome. Feel free to drop you two cents into the bucket on your way out.
Thanks for lookin’!
-O
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Great job O. Turned out really nice.
Well done, Omar! Your finish is really nice!
Monogram’s P-47D razorback still holds up well today, I think. And the bubbletop version. It’s one of my favorite kits to build.
Fantastic build “O”! My [2cnts] = [t$t] [t$t] [t$t] [t$t] [t$t]
Stay safe.
Jim [cptn]
Well I’ll be late to this thread, but I can’t pass by without saying how impressed I am with your rescue job. You’ve built a war-weary Jug with that fantastic paint job and your weathering. I love your attention to the details. And your build proves once again that the old Monogram kits can be built into show stoppers.
Bravo!
Hey Aggieman, I appreciate the compliments, whenever they come! Thanks! I’m glad you liked my Jug.
Cheers!
-O
I missed this too and I don’t usually miss P-47 posts! I agree with Aggieman 100%. Great work ‘O’!