So at this point I will have to just write where am at to this point. Did take some images, however the memory card has failed for some reason and lost 59 images of not only of the P-47 but several other builds that are also in progress. My PC died so have been using my laptop instead, it is a Win 7 Dell, but it for some reason I cannot view I-modeler at home, the site will not load. So I am not able at this time to post images. Going to order a new PC and hopefully have it here before June 6th. And will have to get a new memory card for the camera. In the meantime this is where I'm at on the T-bolt. The airframe is completed and I have cleaned up the seams and ready for paint. I have installed the windscreen and bubble top, masked and airbrushed MM Interior Green on the frames. Next I then airbrushed Polly S RLM Red for the cowl ring and rudder. Let it set a day and then masked them off for the rest of camo. Next to airbrush the white for the D-Day stripes under the wings and rear lower 1/2 of the fuselage. Temp attaching the gear doors for the white and the following alum metal finish. Using Polly Scale white, prior to laying the white, I preshaded that area for affect. Turned out quite nicely once the white was airbrushed over that area of the wing panels and fuselage. Very subtle not to heavy. Next was to airbrush the natural finish lower portion of the airframe. Using Alclad White Aluminum was applied to the lower surfaces after masking off the white panels. During this one of the landing gear doors blew off and landed on the floor. And it just plain disappeared. Will do a detail search again to try to find it. After airbrushing the lower surfaces, I then airbrushed the bubble framing, the hub of the prop and wheels hubs. Once that was done, I then set if off for a day. The upper camo scheme calls for Ocean Grey/Dark Ocean Grey. I used Mr Color Acrylic Med grey for the Lt Ocean Grey as it had a slight blue hue in the color. I then used Polly Scale Ocean Grey mixed with Gunship Grey 10-3 to darken it into what It looked like Dk Ocean Grey. One of the things I love is airbrushing Gunze, it sprays out of the brush so nice and sweet no clogging and leaves a nice semi-gloss finish. And also leaves a nice edge. But first color to lay was a Light A/C grey, using Aeromaster, Medium Grey which is very light compare to Polly S Medium Grey which is closer to Ghost Grey. The Aeromaster color is very pale and looks correct once applied right at the Alum demarcation line and another spot under both stabs. After the 2 lighter greys are applied it is time to airbrush the camo, free hand no masks. This can be the frustrating time with clogging. So with q tips ready at hand the darker grey was applied. A quick prayer and well I will be darned if the paint flowed nicely, didn't experience much in a way of clogging, the edges feathered nicely, it was an easy scheme to apply nothing too fancy. The colors look ok, compared to the decal scheme on the sheet. So this where am at on the build at this time. I was able to take images right after airbrushing the Red and the interior Green of the window frame to document the WiP. But with the card dead don't know if I will be able to recover those images as I get an error on the card when I put it back in the camera. Without the card I was not able to document the various stages of my painting session so hopefully with the new PC and a new memory card on the way I can at least take images of the final stages. At this point my next step is to paint the black portion of the invasion stripes, and then prep for the decals. So this is all for now. More to follow.thanks for reading.
Chuck
Fly Navy
