Airfix XP-47S Thunderbolt

[CSMO]

Republic built the XP-47H and the XP-72 with a honking big Chrysler inline motor. Curtiss build the XP-60C with a radial and contra-props. In the universe between my ears, Republic built the XP-47S with a P&W R-2800 equipped with a gear-box and special Hamilton Standard contra-rotating propellers.

This model is the '60s vintage Airfix Jug with FROG Shackelton propellers substituted for the stock prop. The gearbox is a piece of scrap plastic. The paint is hand-brushed OD/NG and Testors Yellow Zinc Chromate. decals are from Eagle Strike and the scrap-box.

Adios, Larry.

[kitnut617]

Very nice 

but just FYI, the XP-72 was powered by the R-4360 radial.  Your model though looks quite a bit like the XP-47J

[jcf]

Very cool Larry, P-47 experimentals are always cool. 

A Razorback D would look cool configured as an 'amphibion' ala the original
Seversky SEV.



BTW XP-72 was R-4360 powered. 

[PR19_Kit]

I'd have loved to have HEARD one of them! Awesome looking beast.

[Army of One]

I bet would go some......!!! Lovely paint finish....

[comrade harps]

Suitably ugly beast.  What a brutish nose! 

[NARSES2]

I like that 

[Captain Canada]

Four sets of cont-era props in the ( spares ) box
Four sets of cont-era props
You take one out
Bash it about
Three sets of cont-era props in the box !

Three sets.....



Beauty. She looks a natural like that. love the simple camo and the red bordered stars n' bars. Look great together.

[CSMO]

I have 2 sets of Shack props left. I have one model in the paint shop and one kit inbound in the post. Plus, I have a set from an old FROG Gannet that I am fooling around with. Adios, Larry.