Official FMS 1500mm P-47D Razorback Thread

[jetfool]

vrosi1963,

Welcome to this site. The people are so good about helping others and I find more scale projects that covers all forms of rc scale, planes cars/trucks, boats, tanks etc.. We would love to see you post your builds/mods on here. Once you do you will find people helping you get a problem you may have or stealing your ideas. lol. I also go on rc groups and RCSB. and find I spend more time here. RCSB is great also. My Dad bought me a Sterling profile Widcat and a Baby Bee .049 when I was 10 yrs old and I just turned 70. Still have those plans and motor.
As you have read there are a few of us that enjoy detailing our models and please join in our rabble. Makes modeling more fun. You might checkout my F4 Phantom in the jet forum to see what I'm working towards. Elbees B-25 and Davegees B-17. I'm a tenderfoot compared to their projects.

I have the strut rods on one gear leg and re installed the leg retraction linkage. With a little touch up paint think it will be presentable.
Best Regards, Rex

[vrosi1963]

I can tell you and this group have scale talent and is why i posted today , the rc groups people don't want to do anything regarding customization for the 1.2m size as i found out, at least for the P47. 1.2M Let me ask a friend near buy if he will loan me his 1500mm P47 to Mod it to Bubble ...i need a fuse and canopy to do it right ..i have 40 years of rc flying mainly scale only

[jetfool]

Vorsi1963,
We both live in the US. I'm in Indiana. Cost for parts are out of site these days. I f Davegee is in I'd be interested in your bubble top conversion. If we have the canopy size and dimensions, we can carve a mold to pull the canopies and make a fiberglass frame. I don't have a 3d printer but pretty good at working with wood.
Finally started to get the P-47 ready. Looking at photos, I decided to make the upper gear strut rods instead of the OEM spring. I won't fly with these just for show. Some pics to show where I have started and a pic of the matl., tools I'm using. Magnifier for these old eyes to see the little screws and parts. Rods made from solder, eye glass screws for bolts.
Best Regards, Rex

[vrosi1963]

Well . i need a new fuse and then will have to scale up to 3d print from 1.2m size with some hollow test shells to get it right and then get my vac form guy to do some test pulls, I think i have a bout 4to 5 hours into just sanding and polishing . the 45% infill plug.. I ran into a whole group or people on RC groups that would not even spend the $20 to barley cover the vac for guys time and materials, they will be i think $20 plus shipping . for USA people only are you guys all in the USA. let me have a look at the spare fuse cost ,the head rest was just a ply had made armor head rest .. I really don't see fms ever re tooling for a bubble canopy version in our lifetime and is why i did this........... . FMS Fuselage: P-47, 1500mm | Horizon Hobby March 2026 availability FMS Canopy Hatch-Pilot: P-47, 1500mm | Horizon Hobby $150 for both canopy and fuse, to make only two canopies , really

[davegee]

I am very interested in doing a mod for the FMS P-47D razorback to a -25 or later conversion to a bubble top. Please let us know more if we can pull off a conversion to a bubble top. Maybe Rex and I could work on later models of the jug.

cheers

davegee

[jetfool]

vrosi1963,
Wow, beautiful Jugs. I would like to do a P47M in the 56th last British color, dark blue and red. I have been hoping a 15-1600mm bubble- top would be introduced but no luck so far. You might get with Davegee on here and see if he can use your STL to develop a conversion. He is probably the most knowledgeable guy here on the P-47. Just my .02
Post your mods here if you like, we can always learn something new.
Best Regards, Rex

[vrosi1963]

so when are one of you guys going to do a bubble conversion , I have a accurate plug 3d originated for the 1.2m Razorback that can be scale up and new vac formed canopies made available for around $20 , I dont have this airframe yet . i dont see anyone with links to there STL files to share ?? like RC groups dose. I did two conversions with new spare fuses to avoided removing sticker drama. i fly 4 of the 1.2m P47 regular

[jetfool]

Happy New Year, Guys

Dan, How do you find time to work with all your projects going at once?

Davegee, P-47 is back on the bench. New Year flight went well but only one flight, 20' out and my fingers were aching so loaded up in warm truck and came home. Spent about 1 1/2hr talking and flying with the guys. Now that holidays are over I'm ready for warmer weather.
Best Regards, Rex

[Grossman56]

Happy New Year guys!
One more day of work then off for 10!!
Time to get caught up on all the projects and a few things I decided to get back in to as well.

Grossman56
(Dangerous Dan)

[davegee]

Wow Dan incredible. Thinking he might look better without the mask like in a tarmac setting.
Best Regards, Rex

Might be able to print up a mask and hose that would hang off to the side of his leather helmet as they did when they were on the ground. Not sure I have one, but I'll look.

Cheers

davegee

[davegee]

Thaks Dave. Thats how I will do mine. looks great. I am going to get a new fine tooth saw blade to cut the canopy. One I have is old.

Good. A fresh, sharp razorsaw blade is essential to a good cut, I thiink.

Cheers

davegee

[Elbee]

Happy New Year to you and yours, as well. Cubbie looks awesome, nicely done, Sir.

[jetfool]

HAPPY NEW YEAR EVERYBODY!


My flying buddies said I wouldn't get it rebuilt before NEW YEARS Day club fly. Guess I proved them wrong. Batteries charged, re-balanced and ready to go.

[Grossman56]

Here's the boys:

Dang, I thought I'd finished the guy on the right!! Good thing I've got 12 days off coming up after New Year. You can see the guy on the right , at least to me, looks so slightly smaller, but the guy on the left is the same. Not that all pilots were exactly the same size either!!

Grossman56
(Dangerous Dan)

[jetfool]

Wow Dan incredible. Thinking he might look better without the mask like in a tarmac setting.
Best Regards, Rex

[Grossman56]

Hi Guys! Got the pilot from Dave today. I was thinking at first that he would be the same size as the one I have that was in Big Beautiful Doll, but it looks slightly larger, which would make sense. Really hard to tell, but no matter. Now, which head are we looking at?
I have the one with the mask on and the one with the mask off, both have the goggles up.
He should look something like this when finished, which the particular pilot was not, but you get the idea.


See the other head at his feet?

Grossman56
(Dangerous Dan)

[jetfool]

Thaks Dave. Thats how I will do mine. looks great. I am going to get a new fine tooth saw blade to cut the canopy. One I have is old.

[jetfool]

Dad and I flew our Piper Pacer (I learned to fly and solo), then our piper Cherokee many times to Oshkosh, slept under the wing for the week and loved every minute of it.
I have 1/4 scale plans of the Pacer/tri-pacer I hope to build someday in our paint and N #

[davegee]

Hi Rex: I just took a couple pics of my P-47D Penrod and Sam cockpit to show you the technique I used to attach the sliding canopy. As said previously, there are any number of ways you can go to attach the sliding canopy on a flyable airplane. I used a total of four (4) round rare earth magnets that I attached where you can see on the photo with the canopy removed and upside down. In the second photo, I showed a strip of magnetic thin steel that I cut and glued in place on the sides of the cockpit rails. The magnets cling to the metal strips and allow the canopy to slide back and forth, and you can open the canopy to any open position you want to. It's simple, but it works, and when the canopy is closed for flying, it has never moved a bit under the air load. That's over 30 flights!

I'll attach a couple of pics. I highly recommend having a removable,slidable canopy, especially for things like this contest. Sure, you can look inside and see some of the details when it is closed, but you miss a lot if you can't open it and show the judges the amount of detailing you have done.

Cheers

davegee

[davegee]

I have a color picture of my Dad in 1947 standing by the Cub he rented and will add that N number. The N number back then was on the rudder w/wings all yellow Dad said he and his buddy would chase and hunt coyotes in large fields having to rise up to clear the fences. He must have been a daredevil back then.
Rex

A personal connection to your dad through this Cub with the same markings of the plane he once flew. Very cool!

Cheers

Davegee