gota Posted April 14, 2021 Share Posted April 14, 2021 (edited) Hi, Here's my recently finished Razorback as flown by Frank Oiler out of Duxford around 1943. A very nice kit, much more so than the Academy bubbletop which I built concurrently as Sleepy Jean 3. This was supposed to be a quick dual build to widen the Thunderbolt family and to try out some new techniques; it ended up taking more than a year to complete. The Barracuda decals worked out very well, although I failed at applying the cowling checkerboard perfectly. Still managed to hide most of the issues. I was since told on another board that stencils were applied in black on OD Thunderbolts, and noticed anyway that the real plane didn't seem to have any. Cheers! Edited April 14, 2021 by gota 37 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Toryu Posted April 14, 2021 Share Posted April 14, 2021 Beautiful Eileen! The subtle weathering and chipping looks great, and you managed the difficult checkerboard superbly. The gear on the 9th AF P-47 seems a tad too long in comparison?? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gota Posted April 14, 2021 Author Share Posted April 14, 2021 Thanks! The long landing gear is one of the issues with the Academy kit, which I did not bother to fix at all 😛 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BerndM Posted April 14, 2021 Share Posted April 14, 2021 Looks great and your checkers look really fine to me. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kapam Posted April 15, 2021 Share Posted April 15, 2021 Very nice collection of Thunderbolts. The razorback looks brilliant - I see no evidence of any difficulties with the checkers on the cowl. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gota Posted April 15, 2021 Author Share Posted April 15, 2021 Thank you both! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VolkerR. Posted April 15, 2021 Share Posted April 15, 2021 All of your T`bolts look great! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wulfman Posted April 15, 2021 Share Posted April 15, 2021 Excellent build, great job with the nose decal ! Wulfman 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
F-32 Posted April 16, 2021 Share Posted April 16, 2021 Quality work 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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