P-47D Miss Mary Lou
Miss May Lou war photo
Miss May Lou war photo, note 4.5 inch triple rock tubes
Note rocket tubes
Miss May Lou had four kills. Hard to tell if Mary Lou had blue paint on cowl flaps looking at war photos.
7th Air force patch
Academy kit
Kit parts
Kit instructions and decals. I will not be using the kit decals on this project.
Kit instructions
Kit instructions
Kit painting instructions. I will not be using these marking
I will be using the Super Scale decals sheet on the left
Super Scale Decals instruction sheet
I all way wash kit parts be for starting work
I will use Evergreen Metal siding sheet for new cockpit floor
Kit cockpit floor and new cockpit floor
Kit cockpit
Kit cockpit and new cockpit floor
New cockpit details added
New cockpit details added
Cockpit added details and kit cockpit
Cockpit
Kit fuselage
I added some new fuselage side wall details
Added cockpit details
Painted cockpit details
Cockpit installed
Cockpit installed
Fuselage glued together
I removed kit wind guns
Will install brass tubing for guns
Kit has little bumps for ID lights. They should be flush. I removed them and added new ID lights.
New ID lights
Kit wheel wells
I will add some details to the kit wheel wells
Wheel well added details
Added details
Wheel well added details
Added wheel well details
Kit wing had missing flap hinge, so I added them
Added wing flap hinge
Fuselage and wings
Port wing glued on
Wings glued on
Wings glued on
kit horizontal stabilizer
Port horz. stab. glued on
Kit horz. stab. glued on. Airframe complete
Airframe complete
I like to use Steel Wool to smooth out the plastic and remove glue marks.
Added details to kit intakes
Kit wheels on the right is missing wheel hub covers. I will use wheels from a P-47 bubble top kit on the left.
Kit engine
Kit engine
I added some small details to engine
Kit engine with added details
Finish engine
Kit weapons
Kit bombs
Bombs glued togther
Kit bomb and rack
Kit rocket tubes
Rocket tubes
Kit bombs and rockets
Painted bombs and racks. Will do a little more weathering later
Added fuse wire
Kit landing gear doors
I filled in some sink marks
Gear doors
Outside of gear doors painted
Inside of gear doors painted
Interior gear doors. I added missing hinges
I used Model Master Acrylic paints
Top side Olive Drab
Under side Neutral Gray. I have reference photos that show the cowl flaps painted blue or Olive Drab. The war time photos look more Olive drab. The tail is NMF with blue strip. Side of cowl is NMF
I used Interior Green as a base color than dry brushed Yellow Zinc Chromate in the wheel wells and inside of gear doors
Kit prop
Prop painted with a gloss coat and decaled. I will do some more weathering later
Painted prop
I used a small plastic bag to mask the aircraft
I used an old bottle of Polly Scale "Conrail Blue" railroad color on the tail. It sprayed really nice.
Masking Tail and cowl
Cowl mask
I used Vallejo Model Air "Aluminum, it went down nice.
I used an old bottle of Polly Scale "Conrail Blue" for the strips. It sprayed really nice.
Need to clean up some of the Olive Drab.
I will use Flory's Brown Wash
Wash on
Underside washed
Wash off
Here are the clear coats I use. I really like the clear flat coat. Model Master paints have been discontinued so finding any will be hard. I have a good supply on hand, so I am OK for now.
First coat of clear gloss sprayed
Komentarzy
15 4 February 2022, 14:15
John ThomasHey guy's my first project of the new year. I will be building Academy's P-47D "Razor Back".
The P-47D will be Miss Mary Lou of the 19th FS, 318th FG on Saipan 1944. The Academy kit dates back to 1998. The kit is a nice basic kit, I will add some details to the cockpit and wheels wells.
4 February 2022, 14:29
John ThomasNew photos up today. Starting work on the small bits. More photos up soon.
11 February 2022, 14:16
John ThomasNew photos up today. At last I finally got the first two base coats sprayed on. More photos up soon.
7 March 2022, 14:01
JvThanks for sharing all the steps in your build
Its a great help for beginners like me
Much appreciated
9 March 2022, 14:27
John ThomasJv, Thanks. I like doing the step by step builds. I am so glad they are helping. More photos up soon.
9 March 2022, 16:40
John ThomasNew photos up today. Airframe painting is complete, now doing some detail painting before starting any weathering.
12 March 2022, 12:28
John ThomasNew photos up today. Most painting is complete. First coat of clear gloss coat has be sprayed getting ready for decals.
20 March 2022, 13:08
JvYes not to much to go now then its going to be interesting to see what you build next
20 March 2022, 13:23
John ThomasJv, I have the next project idea ready. It's going to be a P-47D Bubble Top a late P-47D-40 in NMF from the 79th FG in Italy 1945. I will us the Academy kit P-47D Bubble Top for the project. Much of what I have done in this project will apply to the late model P-47D. I will have to do some kit bashing and steal a few parts from a Revell P-47D kit. I will be starting the Bubble Top soon, stay tuned.
20 March 2022, 13:44
John ThomasJv, I don't do much kit bashing but when you can steal parts from other kits go for it. I like the Academy P-47D Bubble Top better than the Revell P-47 kit, but the Revell P-47 kit has a few parts I need to upgrade the Academy to a late P-47D-40. BTW Revell makes a late model P-47D and a P-47M, but I like the academy kits better. I will also be doing a P-47M in the near future converting the Academy P-47D Bubble Top to a P-47M using parts from the Revell kit.
20 March 2022, 14:21
JvI haven't got many planes
But I have a tamiya p47-d razorback
Sounds like a bit the same
20 March 2022, 14:42
John ThomasJv, the Tamiya P-47 is a better kit than the Academy kit, it has better details. The details I added to the Academy kit it's included in the Tamiya kit, but I can buy two Academy kits for one Tamiya kit, and I like adding details.
20 March 2022, 17:33
JvOk I got that one in in a lot of 15 kits and 5 kits of figures
And and upgrade kit
All tamiya except for 3 kits of figures and the upgrade kit
So to me its an inexpensive kit
I'm seprised to hear what you say about academy
I thought it was better and more expensive the tamiya
I have seen dragon academy and tacom most kits come whed pe today
I also got some tamiya kits whed pe
But that is only in new kits and expensive kits
21 March 2022, 00:07
John ThomasJv, a lot of the Academy kits I build are from the 1990's a good basic kit. Kits to learn on and hone our skills. Tamiya kits have always been better in details and fit, but a little more money. I like to build several of the same kind of aircraft, like one of each P-47 aircraft. That why I can buy two or three Academy kits for one Tamiya kit. I just add the little details I need for each kit. Now Academy's newer kits are much better and getting close to Tamiya.
21 March 2022, 00:24
JvYes I seen some nice academy kits and I think prices are pretty much same as tamiya
21 March 2022, 00:36
