XP-47J Superbolt

[72modeler]

I recall we had some discussion on this P-47 variant a while back, but I found a couple of photos that I don't recall seeing before, so I have posted links to them below, as well as a description/specs/ IIRC, Koster did a 1/48 conversion, and there were also a couple of short run conversions/kits in 1/72 scale, but I don't recall who did all of them- Sharkit was one, I think. The fastest Jug of them all, and I believe it was  the only US single-engine prop-driven aircraft to top 500 mph in WW2. That's pushing a 7-ton milk bottle pretty darned fast!

Mike

photo caption stated this was taken at an airshow at Wright-Patterson Field in 1947

http://rob.com/bream/1947WPAFBairshow/DSC07679.jpg

 

photo taken   at Farmingdale after a test flight

https://i.pinimg.com/736x/10/46/5f/10465f46099f24027cb7711043a5aa4b.jpg

 

history, specs, and photos

https://oldmachinepress.com/2013/12/17/republic-xp-47j-superbolt/

[The wooksta V2.0]

I think MPM did one but was one of their really early ones in chocolate plastic.   Nice enough kit, although as I was doing a whiffed RAF one and armed, I swapped the wings from an Academy kit.  

 

Never did finish it...

[72modeler]

31 minutes ago, The wooksta V2.0 said:

I think MPM did one but was one of their really early ones in chocolate plastic.

I know they did an XP-47H with the Chrysler inline engine, as I have one, and it is in a really bilious brown plastic, but was not aware they had done the XP-47J, too.

 

I have a 1/72 conversion that has a resin cowling, spinner, and a very crude vacform lower fuselage, but I have no idea who made it. The cowling and spinner are very nicely done, but the vacform piece is pretty crude and doesn't appear to be accurate, anyway. I do have 1/72 scale drawings, so can use them to modify the lower fuselage of a Tamiya razorback. Hardest part will be altering the rear deck behind the canopy and making a new transparency piece to cover it- wish the conversion I have included a new canopy, but I can make a new master using  the Tamiya kit canopy.