Lancfan's Egyptian Trainer ***FINISHED***
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Re: Lancfan's Egyptian Trainer
Thats looking great David. The decals show it off a treat & the varying panel shades do wonders for a NM finish imho.
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Re: Lancfan's Egyptian Trainer
Thanks Nigel.
David.
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The decals are down and the upper wing roundels have been overpainted to represent sun bleaching, final assembly is the next and last task to be done to complete the model.
The drawing below is a simplified drawing of the flap modifications I made to this model. The kit wing is red, the flap is black, filler in the flap recess and on the flap leading edge is grey, the stetched sprue spacer in the flap recess is blue and the lower flap linkage, also of stretched sprue is green.
FINISHED, Republic P-47D-30-RE, ex. 44-20957, Thunderbolt F.mk.II, KL328/14 of 73 OTU, RAF Fayid, Egypt, 1945.
Critique-
The model.
This almost built itself and was a delight to make with all joints fitting perfectly and no filler being needed at all. The only faults were the poorly rendered Air Intake splitter and the wrongly positioned aerial but they were easily corrected.
8/10 for these faults.
The decals. Were perfect with no problems at all. 10/10
David.
The drawing below is a simplified drawing of the flap modifications I made to this model. The kit wing is red, the flap is black, filler in the flap recess and on the flap leading edge is grey, the stetched sprue spacer in the flap recess is blue and the lower flap linkage, also of stretched sprue is green.
FINISHED, Republic P-47D-30-RE, ex. 44-20957, Thunderbolt F.mk.II, KL328/14 of 73 OTU, RAF Fayid, Egypt, 1945.
Critique-
The model.
This almost built itself and was a delight to make with all joints fitting perfectly and no filler being needed at all. The only faults were the poorly rendered Air Intake splitter and the wrongly positioned aerial but they were easily corrected.
8/10 for these faults.
The decals. Were perfect with no problems at all. 10/10
David.
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If you forget the past, you may lose the future.
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Re: Lancfan's Egyptian Trainer
Brilliant work; the flaps especially just set it all off a treat
Best wishes
Jim
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Thanks iggie.
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Re: Lancfan's Egyptian Trainer ***FINISHED***
I think you did a lot more than could have been think about this model. Angled the landing flaps and elevators rudder. Different colors of metal wings and fuselage.
Good work, good finish David!
Oh! And do not you broke the antenna ;)
Good work, good finish David!
Oh! And do not you broke the antenna ;)
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David, my hat is off.
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Awesome finish, and technical drawings too. Top marks.
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Lovely work as always David, I see you even put some sand on the wheels and under the wing, clever.
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Top quality work with some nice touches
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Top build my friend. I really like the subtle shading differences you have achieved on the NMF.
Great work.
Great work.
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Re: Lancfan's Egyptian Trainer ***FINISHED***
Cheers iggie, Przemek, Marek, Nigel, Daren, Chip, Toby, O_T.
David.
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Re: Lancfan's Egyptian Trainer ***FINISHED***
Love this model. Great work on the flaps, really nice natural metal finish and good choice of paint scheme. There can't have been many planes that had the Sky band over natural metal.
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Re: Lancfan's Egyptian Trainer ***FINISHED***
Nice job on this one too David. I do like your flaps mod, one to try for my next jug build. (there will be others )
Steve.
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