LetLetLet ~ Warplanes
Let Let Let - Warplanes => Aircraft Modeling => Topic started by: Jicehem on November 03, 2015, 02:04:54 PM
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Hello everybody :-salut
Here is my last build, an (officially) F-47D-30-RE Thunderbolt of the French Armée de l'air, in 1956 in Algeria and belonging to Escadron de chasse (Fighter squadron) EC 1/20 "Aurès-Némentcha".
The kit is Revell's model suffering from two major defects : the engine is fixed too low in connexion of the fuselage center line and a too deep fuselage with the result that the extra fuel tank under the belly is almost level with the ground ! I attempted to correct by positionning the engine 2 mm higher, by sanding the belley bu about the same value (after having filled the bottom of putty to avoid getting a hole), by lengthening the landing gear legs by 1 1/2 mm. The markings come from an extra decal sheet (Berna Deacals). Hand brush painting with humbrol Metalcote "Polished aluminium" buffed with aluminium powder.
(http://i21.servimg.com/u/f21/10/07/63/16/p-47d-16.jpg)
In spite of this work, the fuel tank stays too much near the ground.
(http://i21.servimg.com/u/f21/10/07/63/16/p-47d-21.jpg)
(http://i21.servimg.com/u/f21/10/07/63/16/p-47d-22.jpg)
(http://i21.servimg.com/u/f21/10/07/63/16/p-47d-23.jpg)
(http://i21.servimg.com/u/f21/10/07/63/16/p-47d-24.jpg)
(http://i21.servimg.com/u/f21/10/07/63/16/p-47d-25.jpg)
(http://i21.servimg.com/u/f21/10/07/63/16/p-47d-26.jpg)
(http://i21.servimg.com/u/f21/10/07/63/16/p-47d-27.jpg)
(http://i21.servimg.com/u/f21/10/07/63/16/p-47d-28.jpg)
(http://i21.servimg.com/u/f21/10/07/63/16/p-47d-29.jpg)
Jicehem :-wave
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Great one!!! I think I have did color profile of this machine ;)
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:-ok
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nice one