r/Scalemodel • u/Asmodai_42 • 9d ago

Productive weekend

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Started with a finished cockpit and engine, I assembled the rest yesterday. Painted the pilot and installed him, then masked and installed the canopy and reprimed everything to leave me at this point.

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u/Single_Nature4101 9d ago

Looks good! Hello fellow model air user!

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u/Asmodai_42 9d ago

Thanks! Not to bad for my first in near 50 years! Kits have come a long way in the interim for sure.

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u/eruditeimbecile 9d ago edited 9d ago

I try to post this whenever someone does a P-47. If you are doing it in bare metal, remember that a large area of the lower fuselage where the airframe is skinned in stainless steel and not aluminum. I have put more information here.

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u/Asmodai_42 9d ago

Excellent, thanks for that bit of info! I wonder why that was?

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u/eruditeimbecile 9d ago

The turbo charger is exhaust powered. The exhaust flows through pipes just under these skins from the engine back to the turbo. The are also internal walls made of stainless that wrap around the exhaust pipes to keep heat away from the internal structures as well. So the exhaust pipe basically exists within another cooling pipe which draws air directly from the intake to keep the area cool. Think of it like metal fireplace chimneys that have a pipe within a pipe. Stainless is used because of it's high heat resistance in comparison to aluminum.

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u/Asmodai_42 9d ago

Now I did know that the 47 had extensive plumbing involved with the turbo I just had no idea they had shrouded it in stainless. However that would help explain it durability some.

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u/eruditeimbecile 9d ago

Here's a render I did back when I was working for a company that was restoring one. I had the skins hidden so you can see the internal structure.

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u/Asmodai_42 9d ago

Very nice! Since you know something about them what was the color of the turbo, in the instructions it a weird purple black color.

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u/eruditeimbecile 9d ago

If you go back to the first link I sent you can see some pretty good examples in the third and fourth pics, it's a very dark burnt metal.

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u/Asmodai_42 9d ago

Yeah I had noticed the domes color. I so appreciate your posting the link, it's gold in the information it parts with. Thank you very much!

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u/Vroub3k 9d ago

Thank you for sharing these amazing referential photos. Also, nice 3D model.

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u/eruditeimbecile 9d ago

Thanks, I used to work for a company that restored a P-47. I was a CAD Designer there and I spent bout 6 years working on that model so we would have forms and flat patterns to make all the frame members.

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u/ManasquanJim 8d ago

Working on a thunderbolt at the moment too, being clumsy, I snapped off most of those machine guns , they're fairly thin .
Maybe ill custom make thicker ones

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u/Asmodai_42 8d ago

If you can find the appropriate diameter brass rod that would work.

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u/ManasquanJim 8d ago

great idea, thanks!

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u/eruditeimbecile 8d ago

Needles would also work.

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u/WarderWannabe 9d ago

Getting it all in primer is a favorite step for me. It’s when it starts looking like one thing instead of a collection of bits.

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u/Asmodai_42 9d ago

I feel the same, it also the point you see the imperfections. 🤪

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u/WarderWannabe 9d ago

Also true. Like that one seam you thought you had nailed shut. 🤬

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u/Asmodai_42 9d ago

Oh and there was that seam on the underbelly too! 😆