Crown Achievement in 1/144

[Mcleod]

My philosophy; Have many on the bench to prevent disinterest in one.

The Crown P-47 Thunderbolt kit.

A time stamp:

Kit parts:

Color scheme = NMF

Instructions are in the box - literally:

I figure I can delay some other builds slightly and rip through this pretty quick. Then again, this is my first Crown kit.

 

[razordws]

 

[Sherman 18]

 

[moon puppy]

Orange tips on the props??

 

[Mcleod]

Orange tips on the props??

Yep, They suggest orange tips on the included P-47 '3-blade prop'?!?!!.

At least with the included decals, I won't be free-handing the national insignia. Just everything else.

 

[moon puppy]

Woops...I think they have a three blade prop on an early one didn't they?

 

[jknaus]

James

 

[Heavens Eagle]

A 3 BLADED PROP!? I guess it is the "running" version then?

 

[sharkman]

Wow, I had no idea there were so many 1/144 scale planes out there!

 

[Mcleod]

A 3 BLADED PROP!? I guess it is the "running" version then?

Back in the day, I'm sure Crown standardized a 3-blade prop for all their kits. There was likely a few modellers who felt suckered by the box art and included scheme profile, compared to what was in the box.

Luckily, I was gifted some proper Platz decals and repairable 4-blade from their P-47 kit.

 

[lupanzer]

...very interesting...

Luiz

 

[Mcleod]

I was able to get going this evening, on the Crown T-bolt.
Some parts were glued together, and it looked ok from above:

There were huge gaps, though, and it came with that odd depression on the lower fuselage:

So I started filling with styrene and blister-pack cuttings, and put in a brass deadman into the depression to anchor some milliput.

An Underneath view:

A blob of milliput was pressed into the depression:

And thus ended my session. Waiting 24hrs for the milliput to cure before I sand to shape. Then it's filling the rest of her with putty and Mr Surfacer.

 

[moon puppy]

Wow what a gap!

 

[razordws]

hmy: hmy: hmy: What the....

 

[Mcleod]

Remember that big, ugly dip damage that was so obvious on the bottom of this tiny model.
I fixed it up, somewhat acceptably:

Primed:

Thought I'd try the pen trick shown to me by another modeller. It's mostly an experiment:

A little bit of yellow; a little bit of Alclad airframe aluminum:

 

[moon puppy]

Looks good here.

 

[razordws]

Excellent repair job!!!

 

[lupanzer]

Well done!...really a dificuly task

Luiz.

 

[Mcleod]

Thanks fellas.

I actually thought I'd get more paint peeling and problems when I removed the mask than I did. Frankly, I'm quite happy with the way the invasion stripes turned out:

Going to wait a day, then wipe her down and touch it up.

 

[SA Dave]

Funky