Official FMS 1500mm P-47D Razorback Thread

[davegee]

The next major step for the Hairless Joe build just unfolded today when the modified fuselage arrived from James in California via UPS. Came in great shape, no damage.

I do have a couple of things I would like to add to this airplane, besides making an accurate looking represntation of Hairless Joe in WWII: first, a powered openable canopy using a small linear motion servo to allow for it to open and close in a satisfactory manner. The second thing I'd like to do is have a droppable tank from the centerline of the fuselage using a servo release unit from EFlite. If that doesn't work, I'll buy one for the new droppable servos with the 1600mm P-51 Flightline model. (I'll probably eventually buy the P-51 model once I finish with Hairless Joe. Getting some experience with these droppable servos can help if and when I buy the P-51 down the road.)

Attached is a pic of James' excellent job of modifying this razorback to a bubbletop jug.

[Elbee]

davegee

I look forward to seeing your progress on both of these mods, Sir.

Best, LB

[jetfool]

IT'S IN THE HOUSE! Yippee! The first P-47 Bubble Top FMS 1500 in the country. Popcorn is Poppin. We need another rebuild on this forum, can't wait.

Yes, I see the BIG grin on your face, Rex

[davegee]

Thanks, LB. I ordered a linear servo from Amazon yesterday but it won’t be here for almost 2 weeks to test it. In the meantime, I have been printing and modifying cockpit parts and just this afternoon started modifying the oil cooler flaps and the waste gates on either side of the lower cowl area.

First of all, for a foamie P-47 flyable model, this one from FMS is tops, IMHO. I always wanted a bubbletop, too, but until James made us aware of his abilities to modify it to a bubbletop, I was resigned that the bubble top would never materialize. But it will now!

Today I modified some plastic pieces for a more scale look of the waste gates. The stock model has these pieces molded with long exhaust tubes which the real ones did not have. Plus, when you slice off these tubes with a razor knife, they are oval shape which is inaccurate. I cut some rings of brass and glued them in to these areas to give a nice round exhaust. I’ll make up some scale wastegates partially open for a more scale appearance.

Below is a pic showing three of these stock oil coolers/wastegates. The one on the left is how they come out of the box. The other two I cut off the extended exhaust stack that isn't scale to WWII P-47s (some restored P-47 DO have these stacks when they have removed the turbo superchargers and wastegates) but this will give a more accurate round exhaust port where I'll add a a scale wastegate on each side.


cheers

davegee

[Grossman56]

Let the fun begin!

Feeling a bit under the weather and work is just taking it out of me. Hopefully, Schilling should be finished by next week.
Now, how about a bubble top Corsair?? (I shouldn't suggest that!)

Grossman56
(Dangerous Dan)

[davegee]

Let the fun begin!

Feeling a bit under the weather and work is just taking it out of me. Hopefully, Schilling should be finished by next week.
Now, how about a bubble top Corsair?? (I shouldn't suggest that!)

Grossman56
(Dangerous Dan)

Hope you feel better soon, Dan. I have a stand-in test figure until we get Schilling in the seat! But for now, the stand-in is helpful to figure out the cockpit and other parts.

Cheers

davegee

[davegee]

I'm including a few pics of some somewhat unplanned developments in scaling out this model a bit. On previous FMS P-47s I have had, I have modified the exhaust stacks in the cowl to make it look somewhat more accurate for WWII airplanes. But I would fix the position of the wastegates in the exhaust tube and go with that. Yesterday and today, I decided to play with this a bit more.

What I ended up doing, with only a plan popping up in my head, was to drill holes in the brass exhaust tubing that I added, ran a pin through those holes on the inside so it could turn, and then glued the round wastegate onto each pin. The wastegate is moveable from close to open, and I think I might just leave it like that so ram air coming through the engine opening might push the wastegates open and provide a bit more cooling air to the airplane. Probably won't do much, but I'm happy to see if they work as desired. Nonetheless, I'm satisfied how it looks right now, in primer and unpainted stage to be finished and installed at a later time.

[jetfool]

Very Nice