SPA Modeler

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.

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.

Awesome - that looks really good in black.

I saw a P-47D in flight yesterday, a really rare sight over here.

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...

RIAT is this weekend.

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.

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/

I suspect you guys are right, it was probably from Duxford off to an Airshow!

Thanks for the link Mike!

Progress report. Much back and forth fixing blemishes, errant panel lines, and uncooperative seams, but it's getting there.

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