1/48 Tamiya P-47D

[flyjoe180]

Great looking Thunderbolt so far. Those Eduard masks look good.

[Guest]

Finished painting some parts red and pre-shaded the underside of the fuselage and wings so that I can apply tamiya XF-19 sky grey later on.

I also airbrushed Aqua gloss on the dark green top, and for some reason it turned from a very smooth surface to a rough one. Why is this happening? Isn't a gloss coat meant to even and smoothen things out?

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Not much pre-shading needed

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At first I tried to airbrush red directly onto the green but the green would show through so I painted it white and then red and it worked

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I finally got some alclad aluminium paint but it says I need a special airbrush cleaner. Would a normal cleaner work?

see you next time

[Guest]

Awesome build so far looking forward to this.

[Snowman]

Nice kite, but I prefer the later "tear drop" canopy variant.

[papa 695]

Looking very nice Ivan. As for the cleaner I don't use Alclad so I can't help you there, but I'm sure someone will be along soon with the answer for you

[Guest]

I finished the engine and masked off the red tail today. The engine was very easy to assemble, was made of only three parts and it had some great details.

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Took forever to mask because of the two little protruding rudder holders that had to be painted olive drab

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I painted the pistons titan silver and the gearbox metallic grey

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After the paint, I airbrushed a clear gloss coat and added a dark brown wash

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Unfortunately, most of the engine detail will not be visible once the cowling is put into place.

See you next time

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[flyjoe180]

Looks great so far, nice job on the engine.

[Guest]

Finished the front part of the aircraft and glued it on. It fit perfectly and no filler was needed. I then pained it all olive drab.

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I decided to put the cowlings in the closed position

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No gaps

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Painted with a coat of olive drab

See you next time

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[papa 695]

Looking good Ivan

[Guest]

I got myself some alclad thinner so I used alclad dull aluminium to paint the wheel hubs and the land gear supports. I also painted the underside in light grey.

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masked off and ready to be painted light grey

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The landing gear turned out nicely I think

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First coat of light grey

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Test fitting the landing gears

See you next time

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[papa 695]

Looking very good Ivan

[Guest]

Nice work Ivan.

[Guest]

Finished paining the underside in grey but when I removed the masking tape, I found that there were stripes left from it so I painted over with a thin coat of olive drab.

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I decided to paint the wheel wells with a brush rather than an airbrush.

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Some touching up needed on the gloss red needed

[papa 695]

Nice work Ivan

[flyjoe180]

Good work Ivan.