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re: Vader’s Model Desk: Republic P-47D Thunderbolt
Posted on 3/8/25 at 3:26 pm to Darth_Vader
Posted on 3/8/25 at 3:26 pm to Darth_Vader
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They were gargantuan
Yes they sure were.
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Posted on 3/8/25 at 3:30 pm to cypresstiger
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Say Darth—On my phone, none of your images load. Not a problem on other threads.
I loaded these to Imgur then posted from there. I did it that way because I’ve noticed lately postimage.org seems to delete pictures soon after they’re loaded. I’ll embed the post from my X profile. Maybe that will work for you…
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Posted on 3/8/25 at 3:31 pm to Darth_Vader
Ever do any modern military?
Posted on 3/8/25 at 3:34 pm to blueboy
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A lot of the girth of the P-47 came from its huge supercharger system….
Posted on 3/8/25 at 3:36 pm to Darth_Vader
Beautiful. Thanks.
Have you completed an A1 Sky Raider? Similar lines.
Have you completed an A1 Sky Raider? Similar lines.
Posted on 3/8/25 at 3:37 pm to hg
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Ever do any modern military?
Sometimes, not often. I did build a BMP-2 recently.
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If tweet fails to load, click here. I built an A7 Corsair last year and an M1A2 Abrams. The Abrams was a commission build for a guy who posts here. Can’t remember his username. He’s a commander of an Armor Bn. In I think the 3rd ID.
Posted on 3/8/25 at 3:40 pm to cypresstiger
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Have you completed an A1 Sky Raider? Similar lines.
I haven’t. But I want to get one for my stash. The weathering possibilities intrigue me…
Posted on 3/8/25 at 3:41 pm to Darth_Vader
Great job once again
Posted on 3/8/25 at 3:44 pm to Darth_Vader
WW2 documentary on the P-47, narrated partly by Lloyd Bridges
LINK
LINK
Posted on 3/8/25 at 3:45 pm to Darth_Vader
Fantastic work! 
Posted on 3/8/25 at 4:13 pm to cypresstiger
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WW2 documentary on the P-47, narrated partly by Lloyd Bridges LINK
Cool. I’ll have to bookmark that to watch later. I love old wartime films like this.
Posted on 3/8/25 at 6:00 pm to Darth_Vader
Hey Darth,
Have you switched exclusively to spray painting versus brushing?
Whatever you are doing the finish on this model looks fantastic!
Have you switched exclusively to spray painting versus brushing?
Whatever you are doing the finish on this model looks fantastic!
This post was edited on 3/8/25 at 6:01 pm
Posted on 3/8/25 at 6:11 pm to AndyCBR
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Have you switched exclusively to spray painting versus brushing?
I airbrush pretty much everything. Sometimes I’ll brush paint the tiny parts that require detail, things like components in the cockpit, tools on vehicles, things like that.
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Whatever you are doing the finish on this model looks fantastic!
Thanks. This one was quite simple. I mixed two parts Tamiya acrylic chrome silver with one part metallic gray on the body. I did that to give it that metallic silver color common to P-47Ds, but not too shiny. I masked the top of the fuselage and painted it OD green. I followed that up by using Tamiya black panel accent and cleaned up the excess with enamel thinner. That really all I did on this build.
Posted on 3/8/25 at 6:25 pm to Darth_Vader
Awesome work on the decals!
Posted on 3/8/25 at 6:36 pm to Stonehenge
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Awesome work on the decals!
Thanks. There was another version of this kit I could have done that had a whole lot more decals. It had a checkerboard covering the engine cowling and invasion stripes on the bottom of the wings. But I’m not enough of a fan of doing decals, plus I like the nose art on this one. So I went with it.
This post was edited on 3/8/25 at 6:52 pm
Posted on 3/8/25 at 7:11 pm to Darth_Vader
Great work with the panel lines and weathering from this view looks realistic and not over done.
Posted on 3/8/25 at 8:20 pm to Darth_Vader
Fantastic job as always. Perfection!!
Posted on 3/8/25 at 8:23 pm to Darth_Vader
I finally got to see a Jug at the Museum of Flight in Seattle a few years ago. It’s huge, especially compared to a Mustang. Had to scare the hell out of the Luftwaffe seeing that big fighter screaming out of the sky.
Posted on 3/8/25 at 8:26 pm to Darth_Vader
Odds are if you flew one of those you were trained at Harding Field in Baton Rouge.
This post was edited on 3/8/25 at 8:28 pm
Posted on 3/8/25 at 8:50 pm to Tchefuncte Tiger
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