Meister P47D Refurbishment

[stewart clifford]

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.

[stewart clifford]

one day I will get the pictures right

[Jason Webb]

Stewart,

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

Nice choice of scheme.



Cheers

Jason

[Jason Webb]

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

[Gregg Veasey]

Steve is a Copycat!!

[stewart clifford]

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

Stewart

[Gregg Veasey]

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

[Gregg Veasey]

any progress Stewart?

[stewart clifford]

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.

[Mike Booth]

[Gregg Veasey]

http://www.rcscalebuilder.com/forum/for ... 16081&PN=1

[chris willis]

Saw it Ted but had to register first.

[stewart clifford]

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

[Gregg Veasey]

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

[stewart clifford]

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

[Gregg Veasey]

could do, race on!!

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

[Gregg Veasey]

the wing was solartex covered but is now stripped and glassed

[Mike Booth]

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

[Gregg Veasey]

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

[Gregg Veasey]

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