bdthoresen Posted July 11, 2020 Share Posted July 11, 2020 Love the work, Jeff. The engine looks plenty -2800-ish to me! Keep the updates coming! THOR Jeff T 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikeMaben Posted July 11, 2020 Share Posted July 11, 2020 Yep Yep ... Jeff T 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Woody V Posted July 11, 2020 Share Posted July 11, 2020 Great start on a really nice kit! Do you mind if I ask where you found reference for the rivet placement? Jeff T 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeff T Posted July 11, 2020 Author Share Posted July 11, 2020 (edited) 2 hours ago, Archer Fine Transfers said: Great start on a really nice kit! Do you mind if I ask where you found reference for the rivet placement? Edited July 11, 2020 by JT68 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeff T Posted July 11, 2020 Author Share Posted July 11, 2020 (edited) Kev, Dennis, Thor, Mike and Woody, thanks a lot for the comments fella's! Woody, I stuffed up quoting your post by trying to do it on my Ipad, for some reason I just couldn't get it to take any text, I have three books on the P-47, but from memory, I'm sure I used the scale drawings out of the smaller one on the far right in this pic, by Robert Peczkowski, the drawings dont have the name of the publication on them they came out of....I don't know how accurate they are, but it looks a lot better to me than having plain panels. Cheer's Jeff. Edited July 11, 2020 by JT68 D.B. Andrus, AlbertD, MikeC and 2 others 4 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Woody V Posted July 12, 2020 Share Posted July 12, 2020 On 7/11/2020 at 10:10 AM, JT68 said: Woody, I stuffed up quoting your post by trying to do it on my Ipad, for some reason I just couldn't get it to take any text, I have three books on the P-47, but from memory, I'm sure I used the scale drawings out of the smaller one on the far right in this pic, by Robert Peczkowski, the drawings dont have the name of the publication on them they came out of....I don't know how accurate they are, but it looks a lot better to me than having plain panels. Cheer's Jeff. Thanks Jeff, much appreciated. Yea, those Mushroom Publications books (small on the right) might be small but they are excellent reference, and the Aero Details books are classics. TRIVIA: The gentleman who owns Hobby Link Japan used to do the translations for the Aero Details books before he started HLJ. I did some work with him on their F6F Hellcat book. Regardless, love the work you've done on this 'Bolt. Jeff T 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Troy Molitor Posted July 12, 2020 Share Posted July 12, 2020 Nice looking progress so far Jeff. Thanks for sharing your build with us. Jeff T 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Vincent Posted July 17, 2020 Share Posted July 17, 2020 (edited) On 4/9/2020 at 4:48 AM, JT68 said: Thats it for now, thanks for looking, Cheer's, Jeff. Wow ! I love to see my work put into so talented hands ! Vincent Edited July 17, 2020 by Vincent Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeff T Posted July 18, 2020 Author Share Posted July 18, 2020 (edited) 12 hours ago, Vincent said: Wow ! I love to see my work put into so talented hands ! Vincent Thank you very much for the compliment Vincent!...quality work such as yours makes it easy to paint! Cheer's, Jeff. Edited July 18, 2020 by JT68 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeff T Posted July 18, 2020 Author Share Posted July 18, 2020 On 7/13/2020 at 6:22 AM, Troy Molitor said: Nice looking progress so far Jeff. Thanks for sharing your build with us. Thanks a lot Troy! Cheer's, Jeff. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeff T Posted July 19, 2020 Author Share Posted July 19, 2020 (edited) Engine components painted and and ready for assembly. I might do a couple more small pin washes I think. Thanks for looking in, Cheer's. Jeff. Edited July 19, 2020 by JT68 Brett M, scvrobeson, Greg W and 15 others 18 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nighthawk Calling 1 Posted September 27, 2020 Share Posted September 27, 2020 Great looking office and 2800 for the Jug. Jeff T 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nmayhew Posted September 30, 2020 Share Posted September 30, 2020 Any updates on this? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeff T Posted October 1, 2020 Author Share Posted October 1, 2020 8 hours ago, nmayhew said: Any updates on this? Thanks for the interest, but its on the back burner at the moment, lost interest in the build, so I'll take a break from it until the bug bites again. Cheer's, Jeff. nmayhew 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeff T Posted March 12, 2021 Author Share Posted March 12, 2021 Well, back into working on this project, and already made more work for myself through stupidity. I have some brass gun barrels to use for this build, but stupidly glued the wing halves together before setting something up inside as stops for the barrels, so I thought, no problem, I'll just set them in the panel piece and glue them in there before installation. While test fitting them in the holes of the wing, two of them fell into the inside of the wing, and being impossible to get them out, I had to bite the bullet and cut out a panel section to remove them.After doing this, I then installed the gun barrels at the instructed length's, and cut some plastic strip and glued it at the end of each barrel as extra precaution they dont dislodge and fall back into the wing.I then painted the plastic strip black, so as not to be noticeable through the shell ejection ports....I then glued some angle plastic strip around the edge of the opening to hold the panel in place for glueing back in. After all this, I thought I'd better do the other wing guns the same incase sometime down the track, they dislodge and fall back into the wing.The gun barrels will get another coat of Alclad paint too, to fix up the chipped paint on them from all this mucking around. Talk about making things ten times harder than they should be! Here are the progress pics of the rework. Now just need to re-scribe and re-rivet. Cheer's, Jeff. Renegade, Alex, Greg W and 6 others 9 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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