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Hasegawa 1/32 P47D Republic Thunderbolt

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I asked Nigel Julian about these and he suggested dark aluminium. Yours look good to me!

You guys have covered the large decal question. I float mine on microset and use a combination of fingers,brushes,cotton buds and cocktail sticks to move them around! It's whatever works at the time. If they get stuck I use a medium brush to get under the edge and ease some more microset underneath until the decal refloats. You can do this even with the largest decals. I smooth them out,once they are in the right place,with kitchen roll.

Over working decals will almost invariably break them so it is important to get the darned things in the right ball park directly off the backing. I hold the backing with tweezers and do my best to slide the decal off and into the correct position.

Cheers

Steve
 
Nic this bird is going to be massive, also thanks for the engine How to .

Martin
 
Very nice Vaughan. I saw one of these fly Duxford this year. I'd never even seen one before - great sound.
 
Great work so far. I love the P47, was the first model i ever built, a little larger though at 1/8 scale.

Cheers

Andy
 
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Hi all

I've been very busy over the last few weeks so very little progress with the P47D. The cowling is no in situ, still some tiding up is required. I'm not a fan of the 4 piece cowling it's a real fiddle to assemble and aline properly. I might have to re-scribe some panel lines.

I've now turned my attention to the office, as usual Hasegawa give you plenty of detailed. Don't know if I will get anytime to put it together this side of Christmas but you never know.

Vaughan

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Thats looking awesome Vaughan,makes me want to throw rocks at the revelogram kit I'm fumbling with and go get one of these!
 
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Well Christmas is all but over so I have had the chance to make some progress. I did a bit of research to establish if the floor pan should be smooth or corrugated and I think I can safely say it should be smooth. So the office has had a coat of black followed by interior green. Next step is to paint the detail by hand and then assemble.

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Happy New Year to every one. Here's my progress over the last couple of days. All the detail has been added to the office followed up with a wash and weathering. I added a few drops of Klear to the instrument dials to give a glass effect. Still yet to add some seat harnesses not sure at the moment wether to go for scratch built or PE parts.

Vaughan

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you get the paintwork on the details so crisp,have you got a deal with the devil?lol envy is such a bad emotion hahaha

mobear
 
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S W E E T looks like a new office just delivered 1st class

mobear
 
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