XP-47H kitbash

Scale:: 1:72
Status:: Ideas
Started:: May 22, 2017

Cut off the nose and belly of the XP-47H limited run kit and/or the conversion vac and graft onto the excellent Tamiya kit, checking against plans and photos for position of scoops etc. Detail the intake, rescribe conversion parts, etc etc

Project inventory

Full kits

Republic XP-47H

MPM Production 1:72

72017 1992 New tool

Republic P-47D Thunderbolt "Razorback"

Tamiya 1:72

60769 (69) 2004 New tool

Detail and Conversion sets

P-47 Thunderbolt Wheel set 2 main wheels diamond tread

True Details 1:72

72005 (45010)

Conversion Kit:

Republic XP-47H Squadron/Airmodel

Airmodel 1:72

224 197x New tool

Decals

P-47D Thunderbolt Razorbacks 62nd FS/56th FG & 328th FS/352nd FG

SuperScale International 1:72

72-0887 2005 New tool

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Project references

Republic Thunderbolt

Ducimus Classics No. 2

Roger A. Freeman

1971

P-47 Thunderbolt (Squadron/Signal Publications 54)

P-47 Thunderbolt Includes All Production Versions

Detail & Scale No. 54

Bert Kinzey

1998

Comments

3 22 May 2017, 03:27

HSC1932
Did you ever finish this project?

25 January, 17:16

Larry Cherniak
No, never even started it. Still in the "mulling over how to best proceed" stage, along with a decades worth of other ideas. I also have a vac XP-47H fuselage but it is cruder so I plan on slicing the MPM kit up. The main problem is there is still a lot of scratchbuilding to do to get a decent ventral air scoop area. I did complete a difficult Ju388J kitbash last year from a Special Hobby kit plus Revell Ju88- you can see it here at the 24:30 mark Youtube Video . If that link doesn't work, search youtube for ipms roscoe turner 2023 sprues with spoons

25 January, 22:33