Koster/Monogram XP-72

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Sorry John, I thought I'd replied to this yesterday. Excellent work on this conversion, it's certainly an unusual but purposeful looking beast - looking forward to seeing how it ends up.
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Thanks, Lyle and Stuart!

I sprayed it with Model Master Black Chrome as an undercoat. I can see a few places where more work is needed, but it is getting close to getting some Alclad, I think. I opened up the side flaps for the oil coolers, but you can't see that from this angle.

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Awesome - that looks really good in black.

I saw a P-47D in flight yesterday, a really rare sight over here.
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There must be an air show nearby. It's been years since I've been to an air show. I've always wanted to go to few in the U.K. ... Duxford, etc...
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RIAT is this weekend.
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Stuart wrote:I saw a P-47D in flight yesterday, a really rare sight over here.
A rare sight anywhere. There are far fewer airworthy P-47s flying today than P-51s. I don’t believe that the USAF Heritage Flight, akin to the Battle of Britain Memorial Flight, but spanning a longer timespan, flies a P-47. But they do have a Mustang or two.
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Here's what's going on in the UK this weekend. If you go on YouTube, you can see a lot of the action.

https://www.airtattoo.com/
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I suspect you guys are right, it was probably from Duxford off to an Airshow!

Thanks for the link Mike!
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Progress report. Much back and forth fixing blemishes, errant panel lines, and uncooperative seams, but it's getting there.

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Nice! That's coming along really nicely John., it would make a nice subject for a what-if.
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