Academy P-47D Thunderbolt 'Razorback'

[Guest]

Hi Greg. As you asked for more pictures i thought i would stick some on for you.

Hope you like them Greg. I have to say i much prefer the Razorback version (for which i have got still to do but been put off by the decals being crap).

Let me know what you think.

Kind regads

Paul

[Guest]

Hi guys... For all you P-47 fans... try the Revell 1:72 P-47D-30, great details, recessed panel lines... absolutely hundreds of decals for two options including stencil markings and even decals for the munitions. All this at an incredible £4 (about $6). It's a new tooling and definitely one I'd recommend to all WWII fighter aircraft fans.

When I pluck up the courage I'll add the pics of my build to my gallery, but even for a modeller of minor skills such as myself it builds into a great addition to your collection, I can't praise it enough.

Regards

Dave

[Guest]

Hi guys... For all you P-47 fans... try the Revell 1:72 P-47D-30, great details, recessed panel lines... absolutely hundreds of decals for two options including stencil markings and even decals for the munitions. All this at an incredible £4 (about $6). It's a new tooling and definitely one I'd recommend to all WWII fighter aircraft fans.When I pluck up the courage I'll add the pics of my build to my gallery, but even for a modeller of minor skills such as myself it builds into a great addition to your collection, I can't praise it enough.

Regards

Dave

Hi Guts,

Here is my P47 so far

Andy

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[Guest]

Hi guys... For all you P-47 fans... try the Revell 1:72 P-47D-30, great details, recessed panel lines... absolutely hundreds of decals for two options including stencil markings and even decals for the munitions. All this at an incredible £4 (about $6). It's a new tooling and definitely one I'd recommend to all WWII fighter aircraft fans.When I pluck up the courage I'll add the pics of my build to my gallery, but even for a modeller of minor skills such as myself it builds into a great addition to your collection, I can't praise it enough.

Regards

Dave

Hi Guys,

Here is my P47 so far

Andy

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[Guest]

So! Its been weeks and my thunderbolt has still gone untouched. The more i think of a solution to the decal problem the harder it all seems. I am begining to hear horror stories about all academy decals and that I should go with an aftermarket set instead. The small red 'no step' decals on the end of the flaps closest to the fuselage are now lifting on my model so i think i may ditch it completely and start a new one. what do you reckon guys? is it worth it?!

[stona]

Nice job there. I think the weathering you are referring to is the paint chipping. There are many ways of doing this. Some people will use a fine brush and paint the chips. Others prefer silver pencils or pens and drawing.

Another technique is to spray the high traffic areas with an aluminium or silver finish before the camo colours are applied and to use salt or sand or blobs of liquid mask to "mask" chipped areas. After the camo is applied the salt or whatever is rubbed off to reveal the "metal" beneath.

I found it hard to get scale chipping this way 'though I know some people get good results.

I now spray the silver/aluminium or sometimes the primer colour and then the camo colour.

I can then sand this back to reveal as much or as little of the underlying "metal" as I want.

Chips can be made with the end of a blade or needle.

I'm sure others will have their own methods. There are many ways of skinning a cat!

Hope this helps

Steve