Tamiya P-47D Thunderbolt
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Hanno KleineckeA really outstanding result ! Superclean NMF with its colour variations and an admirable checkered painted (!) cowling - hats off 👍
James CThats a gorgeous looking Thunderbolt. Impressive masking work on that checkerboard pattern 👍
David R. MeizosoAmazingly clean build! Thanks for explaining the masking procedure for the cowling!
Kyle DeHartLove this plane. The Revell Razorback was my 2nd ever airplane model. Your build of the Tamiya looks many, many times better than mine. 😂😂 Well done.
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This is a classic tamiya model for a classic fighter，the whole kit is smooth and very detailed，except the decal， it is too damm thick！I have various kinds of decal softener，tamiya，mr hobby，microscale，vallejo，none of them works......So the chessboard painting on the cowling could be a little tricky. Although the pattern is included in the decal, I doubted it would be applied nicely. I've got this big heavy black book called "Aircraft Scale modelling F.A.Q" by Daniel Zamarbide,it introduced an intresting way to paint the chessboard by airbrush, I always want to give it a try, now the time is perfect. Well，the whole process was simple，but not easy，it required ton of masking, yet when you removed all the mask tape, it was just worth it. And to be honest it was so much fun! I definitely will do that again！In the end I coundn't bear to put any weathering on it. I mean look at it，so shinny!