discussion 1/48 Tamiya P-47D

[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

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[papa 695]

Nice work Ivan

 

[flyjoe180]

Good work Ivan.

 

[Guest]

I assembled the landing gears and started work on the bombs, drop tanks and bazookas. Hope to start applying decals soon and can't wait to remove the canopy masks and see how the interior detail looks.

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I tried coating the propeller in tamiya flat coat to protect the black paint, but it just messed it up so I re-painted it.

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The large, flat drop tank in the middle.

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The 8, 50-cal machine gun barrels. I painted them in alclad polished aluminium.

see you next time

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[flyjoe180]

Good progress. Did the Tamiya flat leave a patchy effect when it dried by any chance? I gave up on the stuff a while ago and went to Humbrol Matt cote.

 

[Guest]

Good progress. Did the Tamiya flat leave a patchy effect when it dried by any chance? I gave up on the stuff a while ago and went to Humbrol Matt cote.

I first painted the prop in tamiya flat black, then I applied with a paintbrush a thin coat of the flat clear coat. When it dried it became white and it looked horrible. I didn't want to put it in my airbrush because it didn't seem to dissolve in water and I didn't want to break my airbrush. I tried to repaint it but the flat black would not go onto the flat clear coat properly so I had to sand the prop down to the plastic and start again, this time with only flat black.

 

[flyjoe180]

Sounds familiar. I used Tamiya flat clear out of a spray can and it was terrible.

 

[Guest]

Finally got back to working on this model after a break. I painted the wheel wells and finished the bazookas. I also did some weathering, maybe too much? Can anyone recommend a good airbrushable clear coat on which I can apply the decals?


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The bombs, Bazookas and weathering


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The well wells were quite simple and everything fit together perfectly


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[flyjoe180]

Nice one Ivan, your Thunderbolt is looking very good.

Can anyone recommend a good airbrushable clear coat on which I can apply the decals?

You'll probably get a plethora of responses for this, but I personally use Humbrol Gloss Cote or Vallejo gloss varnish for my decal work, followed up afterwards with Humbrol Matt Cote. All airbrush nicely and evenly. I use a 1:1 mix of thinners and Humbrol varnish for those products.

 

[papa 695]

Coming along very nicely Ivan

 

[Guest]

fantastic so far, subscribing!

 

[Guest]

Nice one Ivan, your Thunderbolt is looking very good.
You'll probably get a plethora of responses for this, but I personally use Humbrol Gloss Cote or Vallejo gloss varnish for my decal work, followed up afterwards with Humbrol Matt Cote. All airbrush nicely and evenly. I use a 1:1 mix of thinners and Humbrol varnish for those products.

Thanks for that advice, I will try to get some of those clear coats by next week

 

[flyjoe180]

Good video here from Humbrol if it is of any use to you: