P-47 Thunderbolt 1/8th construction

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Your second installment covers the bomb release mechanisms. Again not happy with the Topflite issued peices i needed to add some scale. From a picture that i have of these you will see how much better the finished objects are. Though finished these will not be added to the wings until the end of the project.

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Now, onto the office. After building the cockpit interioir weeks ago today i finally got round to fitting it, hope you like it.

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And to round off this episode: in my never ending search to find a decent 3 veiw for this project i have decided to follow the majority of you guys and brought a kit. Applying the factor i should be able to get a lot of scale measurements from this. I know that i wont be as good as you guys when it comes to building these small scales and wish that i had someone near that could build this kit to the true standard that it desrves. I can only imagine that i will make a great pigs breakfast of it.

Andy

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Hi Gang,

I took a look at the canopy supplied by Topflite. not very scale so i decided to add my bit. I will give you a look at the final finished object shortly but this is as far as i have it at the moment. Also, i'm speaking to pete because the pilot is too small at 1/8th scale, i think he needs to be slightly bigger.

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Fantastic! I can not wait to see the paint on. Bare metal perhaps?:goodidea:

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Fantastic! I can not wait to see the paint on. Bare metal perhaps?:goodidea:

Thanks Siara,

You are right of course, the canopy will be bare metal aluminium. I did intemd to paint the whole plane silver but was advised by the flying club members that i spoke to, to avoid silver colours as it makes it hard to spot when flying so we are going for the olive drab with a dark grey belly look.

Thanks again.

Andy

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Here we go with the first of todays installments:

The Canopy. Now that it has its scale look... i think you would agree that it now looks far better than it did originally. The frame has been added by useing Evergreen material, U section. Rivets have been added by the usual means and a coat of Aluminium Paint. A little weathering later on will bring this to life.

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This next installment covers the front canopy along with the bullet proof sheild and the pilot. This is the last we will see of the pilot now ubtill the plane is totally finished.

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This installment Gang covers making hatches that fit the contour.

These are made exactly the same as the under carriage doors... fibre glass laid onto Monocoat. When dry you get the perfect fit. The smaller one is for access to the rear steer mechanism and the other is for the services. On the panel are:- top left: Air filling point for retacts, Below: Air pressure indicator and below that is the fueling point. Next to these is the on/off switch and charging jack.

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And finally Gang.

A small detail, the oil cooler: This is located beneath the fuse and to the rear.

Andy

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Hi Gang,

Happy Easter to you all.

We have made good progress on the Jug this weekend and here is the updates for you all.

First of all, a look at the weathered Canopy, Exhaust / Vents & Oil Cooler..

Andy

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The next installment of the day is the one where i get to use a spray gun for the first time in my life. This is the first coat of Primer to go on and will almost be all sanded off.

Andy

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This next installment is the sanding stage. Wow, what a dusty job... i had to install an extract fan in the ceiling to help get rid of the dust. Everything got coverd and i have to do it all again. Well, you can now see where the inperfections are and have been filled with the trusty Squadren Green Putty. If you dont have any i suggest you pick some up. It dries in an hour and sands brilliantly. Now with all of the defects filled and sanded we will go on to the first coat of real colour and on this once sanded and the plane is level all over, the panel lines will be put on.

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Well Gang,

Here is a tip that i mentioned some time ago and now i can show you the result. I mentioned building parts with car body filler. Because there was no Antenna with the kit i had to build one.

First of all to get the shape and add strenght i cut a peice of thin Ply Wood to the shape i needed. Then added masking tape to the area on the plane where the antenna sits. Mixed up some filler and blobbed it on the tape. This gives a perfect curve to the base of the part. Then i stuck in the Ply template and aligned it with the fin. After about 7 mins the filler is at a stage where you can calve it with a knife. Once it has gone off, remove it by lifting the tape and sand to the desired shape. Once i had this done i added filler all the way up the Ply to the tip, calved and sanded to shape and then the result is a very rigid and strong antenna. This was then fixed to the fuse with 5 min epoxy resin.

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Hi Gang,

Well its been a week of plenty of sanding, filling, sanding & spraying. Dust everywhere guys, it will take me a week to dust out the workshop when i have finished.

At this stage a coat of grey is applied to the model, this is a finish coat of paint, this will enable us to have a glimpse of what the final coat will look like. It the general idea to sand back and reveal all the high spot and low spots at this stage. The high spots being white and the low being an unsanded grey. Once found the old trusty Squadren Green is used to fill the low spots and the sanding takes care of the high ones. Below is the sanded out and filled grey coat. Once satisfied with the surface another coat of grey is applied, if all is well this coat will have all the panel lines, hatches, fastners, rivit lines and rivits applied.

Andy

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