Academy 1/72 - P-47D Bubbletop Thunderbolt

[elscorpio]

Fellow plastic companions ...

Just finished the Academy 1/72 - P-47D Bubbletop Thunderbolt. I think its a little nice model, but the decals are so bad...especially the big front ones, they re thick and they simply do not "glue" or adhere to the model. Next time i ll just buy other decals. I was my first "metal finish" model and i really learned a lot, i conquered my fear of the metal paint and next one will be better.

I just could nt control myself with the weathering, i though of a light weathered model...but in the end it came out a bit beaten, i simply prefer a weathered model, even if its not historically realistic.
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I think it doesn t look awful in the shelf, maybe ill do a little base later to go with the weathering.

Regards,

João Mendes

[Avgas]

Looks great to me, you wouldn't have known the decals were a problem unless you had said so.

[elscorpio]

Thank you!

Looking close on the model you can see that they re a bit too thick...especially the chief on the front...it took a lot of microsol and a few cuts to look OK. Then I hand painted and a bit of weathering to make it pass the "photo test"!

[Twokidsnosleep]

That is great looking jug
You did a splendid job

[elscorpio]

Thank you very much!

[demarcation]

Beautiful Jug mate, really well done!

[elscorpio]

Thank you!

[Willem]

Lovely job. Really like the varied NMF surface.