Trumpeter P-47D Razorback

[crazypoet]

39 minutes ago, Dekenba said:

CDC?

I've been told by a very, very high-up government source that I should be drinking or injecting myself with disinfectant, whilst grilling myself with UV light, in order to kill that darned virus. So, being a trusting sort, I'm planning on doing so this evening.

It was great knowing you all.

No flowers.

I got that same advice, and of course being a loyal Fed will be self-administering both IV and atomized Clorox while parked unprotected under a set of high-intensity UV lights for 24 hours

 

[Guest Dekenba]

40 minutes ago, crazypoet said:

I got that same advice, and of course being a loyal Fed will be self-administering both IV and atomized Clorox while parked unprotected under a set of high-intensity UV lights for 24 hours

 

And, looking on the bright side, there will soon be an extra 300 odd 1/32 kits on EBay in the UK, including about 75 WNW's.

[crazypoet]

So while I’m working on the flaps...  A question for those who may have trod this path before...

On all the color pics I’ve seen, the Outer/exposed part of the mechanical links are painted (or not) to match the surrounding wing.  Awesome and makes perfect sense.

The inner mechanical bits (that’s a valid technical term according to all of my ex-spouses...) are a bit less obvious.  Refurbished aircraft show them in both primer and bare metal.  I’ve not (yet) found a good color photo of the naked nethers of a P-47 during WWII.

any hints?

[crazypoet]

So I took the plunge and went with bare aluminum for the flap hinge internals.  The surfaces that would be visible when the flaps are closed are painted to match the adjoining panels and life is good.

These things are beginning to look a bit more like wings...

I primed and painted the next batch of PE, and added a few necessary bits to the wheel wells, then turned my attention to the guns

Note to self: next time, prime and paint the brass barrels *before* attaching...  My go-to dark gray Vallejo primer just did not want to adhere to the brass at all, so I ended up stripping the barrels and re-priming with Alclad black primer instead.  This would have been much simpler had I not already primed and started finishing the receivers.  I had to decant the primer into a small jar and dip the bloody things...

Lesson learned.

I’ll use Uschi (steel) and Tamiya (Light Gun Metal) powders to do the final metal finish once the primer sets, then it’s time to finish the gun bay internals and move on.

 

[Clunkmeister]

I have honk it looks great. One of he shortcomings of the Hasegawa kit are those big steps in the flaps where they join the wing when retracted. For some reason, that’s always really bothered me. 

But you nailed it with the Trumpeter edition. 

[Lothar]

Excellent work, hats off!! The Razorback is one of my all time favourite aircraft so your build needs to be followed.

Lothar

[leitch144]

I maybe wrong but I thought the gun bays and wheel wells on the P-47 were all Zinc Chromate Yellow?

Andy

 

 

[1to1scale]

32 minutes ago, leitch144 said:

I maybe wrong but I thought the gun bays and wheel wells on the P-47 were all Zinc Chromate Yellow?

Andy

 

 

There is evidence that they were many colors, some photos show a very bright yellow zinc, some show an aluminum with barely a light mist of yellow zinc dusted on, almost translucent, and then I found this photo. This shows a more green zinc color, possibly a yellow zinc over coated with interior green. 

 

as the wing stripes are yellow, you can see the gear doors are more green than yellow. Looks here like they were possibly painted interior green over the yellow, which is even more curious as this is a NMF bird and camouflage was no longer an issue.

[crazypoet]

59 minutes ago, leitch144 said:

I maybe wrong but I thought the gun bays and wheel wells on the P-47 were all Zinc Chromate Yellow?

Andy

 

 

You may be correct; I’d already started with interior green when I found the info on Zinc Chromate Yellow on another site. 

I’ve seen enough examples in Interior Green that I can at least make a case (the early photos I found were green, which is why I started in that direction).  
 

Since then, I’ve noticed that there seems to be about  50/50 mix between green and yellow, plus some gray/white examples just for fun.

The challenge is that these are all restorations; while I *hope* that they’d stay with original colors, there’s no guarantee.

I finally tracked down a copy of “P-47 in Detail and Scale”, which should help insofar as using the correct color for the correct factory on this bird

if need-be, after the book arrives tomorrow, I’ll repaint.

[crazypoet]

Finally got the book, and yes I’ll need to do some repainting of the gun and landing gear bays.  The restored versions that I’ve seen in cockpit green are not correct.

Curtiss-produced versions were done in cockpit green, and some field depots also used this color.  But... since my bird was Republic-built and I can’t reasonably document field mods outside of the gunsight and prop, back to the factory finish it is

[crazypoet]

Sooo… Hi there!  It’s been a long minute.  First Covid and associated work-place hassles had me off the bench for a while, then I took a year to build a 1:1 scale fully functional muzzle-loading rifle (1850’s Lehman Half-stock, .50 percussion trade rifle)

I’ve dusted everything off, gotten the bench back in order and easing my way back into this.  

I’m starting back in with some little bits to get my hands working again - some Eduard PE on the wings and horizontal stabilizers, and finishing the cowl flap mod needed to take is back to the correct version for this bird

 

[harv]

Good to see you back !!....harv 

[crazypoet]

Just now, harv said:

Good to see you back !!....harv 

Good to *be* back!  I’ve missed y’all

[Peterpools]

Right with Harv

So good to see the Jug back on the bench and underway again.

 

[GazzaS]

Welcome back!

[Bomber_County]

Welcome back, is it that long ago……wow…..more please…..

[CrankyCrafstman]

I'll be following this one I did this one a few years back, had a heck of a time with the cowl clearing the rocker covers, had to do some grinding to get it to fit, but it looked good when done.

Ron G 

[crazypoet]

On 11/25/2022 at 9:02 AM, CrankyCrafstman said:

I'll be following this one I did this one a few years back, had a heck of a time with the cowl clearing the rocker covers, had to do some grinding to get it to fit, but it looked good when done.

Ron G 

I realized that I had to do a bit of trimming on the back of the engine - that’s where the problem came from.  It sits a bit too far forward out of the box

with that done, the rocker arms and engine mounts fit *perfectly*

I’ll get some pics of that later today

 

[crazypoet]

Haven’t gotten any new pics yet, but those will be forthcoming

i spent some time doing a bit of gap-filling on the seams on the leading edge of both wings.  There were a couple of spots where the edges gapped by .5mm, despite everything else lining up happily.  Once that’s all dried and smooth I’ll redo a couple of rivets that I managed to screw up in the process.

after that, I will turn my attention to the gun bays.

I have the Eduard gun bay set, and so far I’m happy with it.  I’m not entirely sure about their ammo feed chutes - I’m going back and forth between those and the ones from the kit.  They both have minor issues, based on photos I’ve seen, so I’ll go with whichever looks best.  I’ll also have to deal with the charging rods, which promise to be a right PITA, but that’s all part of the fun.

I’ll next have to decide whether to go with the PE ammo belts or the rubber ones from the kit - again, both have issues, and I’ll go with whichever looks more “right” after getting them painted up.  If I had the brains god gave a turnip, I’d just close up the gun bays and not worry about it.  We’ll see how badly I screw things up stuffing all the bits inside, and go from there 

once those are settled, there’s some hoses and such to add to the landing gear bays while they’re still easy to reach

wheee!  It’s good to be back 

[crazypoet]

So not a whole lot of progress, as I took the weekend off (utterly worth it, though - Savannah is *awesome*)

bits of filing and sanding, and starting to work on landing gear hydraulics (yes, I’m putting off working on the gun bays out of sheer laziness 😂)

trying an experiment with .8mm braided line, wire, and some paint

I’m not thrilled with the results yet, but it’s got potential.  There’s only a few of these particular flexible lines that will be at all visible, which helps.

I'm going to keep fiddling about until they look right

[Sasha As]

Great job!

[KevinM]

It's looking good and like you said 50/50 on the braid but I am looking at a zoomed pic a model on the shelf with eyeballs only might be juusst the trick.I like your rifle went looking at some... sheess... none really to had and some kinda pricey.