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Thats my friend Giannis!!!! Awesome work Gianni like always!!!! I think you nailed it!!!! 😀👏 John

Thanks a lot!!!!

Really no worries Antoine!!!! John

Thanks a lot for your comments, really appreciate!!! John

Thanks a lot Geof!!! Thanks Antoine, i think you confuse me with someone else... Anyway, really appreciate the good words!!! John

Good morning gents, it has been 3 months since my last post of ''my lady''. Work was a bit slow but i managed to finish the build!! I glued everithing together, i added the vector tail as well... While the glue was curing i dealt with the cowling flaps and propeller... You can see the small numerals on on wing...as per original!! I sand and mask for the primer... I primered her and paint the red parts... I used my own masks for the insingia. I measured, masked and painted them...as you wii see, as in my previous build, 1/32 P-51D, i followed a different approach in my bare metal builds. I paint everyting in front of the bare metal to mnimize the masking over it. I masked the isignia, measure and painted the invasion stripes. I dont like the brushed ones someone try to depict!! One other thing is that the position of the invasion stripes in this FG, the 56th, did not follow the rules...that is why you see the bomb rack painted black!! Also the width of the stripes was not the same.... so a little work and study was nessecery to be as accurate as i could!!! Also the antiglare panel... I masked everyting (the negative part of my approach) and painted the bare metal color, this time SM-208 Super Duralumin from Mr. Color!!! Really impressed and robust, i thing it will be my go for the my next bare metal projects!!! Things are really different in real life...it seems to my eyes like real shine bare metal. The shine will drop to more realist patina with the upcoming treatment as you will see. Next it was time for the fuselage codes and serial... I had some troubles with ''Z'', vilyl did not want to comfom properly so i used some kind of kabuki paper from migammo. I let everything to set and i weathered the engine and painted and weathered the gear legs. I glued the engine and cowling on the fuselage... Gloss varnish and the rest of the decals and small stencils. I had the HGW wet transfers but they were totally useless, they seemed to have no film on them, so i used the stencils from The techmod decal sheet. Gloss varnish, oil washes and weathering... I did not go crazy with the weathering on her, i tried to follow the pics i had in hand. some chipping... And finally i assembled everything together... Thanks a lot for following me on this journey!! I would love your feedback and remarks. John

Something that caught my eye on those decal sheets.... Shouldnt those USAF letters be in insignia blue color, FS15044??? Instead of black?? John P. S. I have seen it to other decal sheets too!!!

Really nice work and finish there!!!!! John

Really nice work there!!!! Congrats John

...Next, wheel wells. I wanted to try and show all the piping in there. Before put the final details I decided to glue the upper wings to the fuselage in order to get as perfect joint as I could as well as to have the room to finalize the piping order. whells wheels... landing gear doors bombs... wing tank... recognition lights, i deepen them, paint them chrome, i put clear uv resin on top and painted them with clears. That is all for now guys, sorry for the long post!!!! Hope you like her so far, feel free for any notes, remarks!!! John

Good morning gents, New project on the bench, Tamiya’s legendary P-47D Razorback as P-47D-22 ‘’Silver Lady’’ P-47D 42-26044 “Silver Lady” HV-Z (underlined Z indicates second time HV-Z was used) was first flown in combat by Capt. James Carter and Major Les Smith of the 61st FS/56th FG, Boxted, England 1944. In May 1944 Smith returned to the U.S. and the “Silver Lady” was flown by many notable pilots. Gabreski scored four of his victories with 42-26044, other pilots were J. Jure, J. Rankin, C. Thomton, and M. Gladych. In August 1944 “Silver Lady” was fitted with a Malcolm hood and flown 21 times by Witold Lanowski. The model and some aftermarket Silver Lady was a P-47D-22-RE so there are some things – variations to take into account through the build! Many thanks to Darrell Thomas a.k.a. Tbolt for all the provided info!! Some of them, you can see here: https://www.368thfightergroup.com/P-47-2.html - Engine R-2800-59 (with turtle mags) with hamilton propeller governor - Hamilton propeller - Cockpit differences: -New radio installation for operation in Europe -late type of trim control unit -Rectangular style of throttle lever -bomb and tank release panel left of pilot’s seat - second fuel selector valve on the floor was added when the wing pylons were added. It allow selection of the belly or left or right wing tanks when the other selector is selected to "external" -Especially for the Silver Lady, British MkII gun sight without sight ring. Having all those in mind and searchingfor a solution I found out that True details produce 2 different versions for the tamiya, one from from C to D-11 and another from D-15 to D-28. I chose the latter! I changed the position of the bomb and tank release panel as it was wrong. Paint and whethered everything. Before gluing the cockpit in the fuselage I decided to rivet all the aircraft. I placed the cockpit into position and closed the fuselage Regarding the engine, I could not find the proper turtle mags so I found a 3d design of the engine, I doawload it, and 3d printed it after making some changes! ..... .....

Good morning, If you have fasebook and you can read the comments you will see that Roy Sutherland (a.k.a. Barracuda) point it also to them!! I also point them out that the shape is wrong for a 2seater bird!!!! I quote... ''Roy Sutherland Serious question, and I mean it in a helpful way, but are you sure that your plans are accurate? The radome alone looks too short and misshapen. You might want to check the shape of the intake as well. It's correct shape is missed a lot in kits.'' ''ResKit Roy Sutherland This picture was taken with a phone camera from the corner of the monitor. And it's a sketch. It's correct in shape.'' ''Ioannis Stournaras ResKit in your Pic it seems as a single seater in shape.... The 2seater is a bit different in shape, but I believe you already know it!!!'' ''ResKit Ioannis Stournaras everything is correct. everything is still in progress. The first one will be a two-seater model. And then we'll see.'' So time will tell!!! John

It was about time we saw a new S.L.U.F. Kudos to Reskit!! John

Thanks a lot Watto, realy appreciate John

Thanks a lot!!!! John