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Hi All,

A recent arrival to my workshop has been Steve (dangly legs) Whites veteran Meister P47D Thunderbolt. After 8/9 years of flying Steve has asked me to refurbish this model and re-finish it in a new scheme.
Theres some minor damage to repair mainly to the u/c doors and a new cowl to fit other than that it's just a straight forward strip down and repaint.
The scheme will again be 56th Fighter Group and the same un-usual camo pattern but this time the model will represent Col Dave Schillings aircraft P47D-25 42-26641 "Hairless Joe" although the name was never painted on just the cartoon figure itself. Schilling ended the war with 22 an a bit kills having scored 5 in a day, I haven't researched him an the aircraft much yet but I believe Schilling was killed in a car crash somewhere in Essex a few years after the war.
So far most of the model has been stripped back to the glass cloth, the U/C has been removed and is on it's way back to Unitracts for overhaul, the cockpit has had some repairs and a repaint with the canopy being refitted earlier today.

one day I will get the pictures right

Stewart,

I have Schillings biography "Follow Me" if you want to borrow it.

Nice choice of scheme.



Cheers

Jason

Full-size done in Dave's colours has just gone for $1,750,000 on courtesy aircraft sales!

http://www.courtesyaircraft.com/Current%20Inventory/N47DA%20Republic%20P-47D%20Specs.htm

Steve is a Copycat!!

Don't tell me yours is going in the same scheme

Stewart

Nah, don't panic, I just mean on the refurb!

any progress Stewart?

Not much just yet, it's old war wounds have been repaired and it's had a good dose of Dolphin glaze to smooth out some of the rough bits. It should be primed later this week, Flightline Graphics are currently preparing the paint masks.

Saw it Ted but had to register first.

Saw what, Willy Warbird? I haven't registered, I've only just been able to reluctantly force myself to register on rcmf. Don't know how some of you find time to go on all these forums

Stew, the link I posted was to the refurb of my bolt on RCSB

Why not put some of your P47 on this thread Gregg. We've had to mess about with the fuselage paint mask sizes a bit as this model is neither 1/4 or 1/5th scale and doesn't have very accurate lines, if anyone else needs a set of masks for one of these models, then ring Nigel at Flightline Graphics as he now has the right sizes . So far the wings and belly pan have had a coat of primer applied.

Stewart

could do, race on!!

Won't hijack the thread fully but will add the pics from how it was till now

the wing was solartex covered but is now stripped and glassed

Thank God something posted other than a 3/4 scale flying shed.

This one is a one piece wing and the belly is part of it too. This was re-shaped and re faired in plus new servo mounts and hatches were made plus new b*mb pilons

lots of work done on the fuz re shaping, new hatch, new metal tape on the tail and a gutted cockpit waiting for a Meister cockpit kit to arrive