Different Twin-Thunderbolts

[Tophe]

As for the truncated J 29, Zac made me find again a truncated P-47 of mine, 1997 ^_^ :

and I plan (as for the J 29, XP-77, C.714) to include it into a twin-plane, half normal double-P-47 . However ... I had not bought 2 P-47 kit, but 3... and maybe I would need 4 to build 2 Twin-Thunderbolts, 6 to build 3...

[Tophe]

Before truncating and experiencing scratch-building twins, my goal was a shelf with 3 1/72 P-47 models: beautiful in-line XP-47H, related Razorback P-47D, related Bubble P-47D...

Now, with my new experience in scratch-zwilling, I would have considered a XP-47H/RazorbackD Twin and a RazorbackD/BubbleD Twin.
And with the truncated principle, this could add two others: RazorbackD/truncatedRazorbackD and a XP47H/truncatedXP47H (without belly scoop)...
But I will not buy one more D and one more H to do that: I have almost 50 bought kits waiting to be built... My plan is to build in 2006 – after the J 29Z – the truncatedRazorbackD/truncatedXP-47H, as beauty queen ^_^ ,  to be put close to the ugly twin-plane RazorbackD/BubbleD, also original...
I am not ready : my 47H box includes no fuselage nor wing, maybe put in another box... or lost during my changing apartment then town 2000/2005...

[Captain Canada]

Neato !

Looks like it stalled and was 'pancaked' into the ground !

Nice to hear you're building again !

 

[Brian da Basher]

Wow an XP-47G! Awesome! A 50 kist stash to boot! Tophe, I am impressed. I guess I'm the poor relation here with my measely 28 kit stash, three of which will never be built unless I magically find a larger house.

Brian da Basher

P.S. That truncated P-47 has lots of possibilities...

[Tophe]

I have checked my P-47 kit boxes and the result is bad:
- [Frog] Bubble 47 Radial: canopy missing
- [Hasegawa] Razorback 47 Radial: one half-fuselage and fin missing
- [MPM] Razorback 47 In-line : all missing  
- [Hasegawa] (Truncated) Razorback 47 Radial: canopy missing
So I am not at all on the way to build 2 Twin-47 : it would be very uneasy to complete a single one...  This would be :
- port: Truncated Razorback 47 Radial
- starboard: Canopy-less Bubble 47 Radial...
Well, maybe the missing parts are in other boxes that I have not investigated yet, and I delay this building for several months or a few years... Sadly.  

[K5054NZ]

Aw, that's a real shame, I was hoping to see a new Tophe build.    

[Brian da Basher]

Tophe, you might want to see if you can get a vac replacement canopy for that one T-bolt. Here in the U.S. squadron has them, often for only $1. Even if you can't find a T-bolt canopy, I'm sure you could find some kind of vac replacement. Sometimes just fitting a different style canopy on a bird can make a really neat whif.

Brian da Basher

[Tophe]

Thanks Brian for this advice, well I am not sure I will follow it. I explain:
- with the port truncated razorback, my goal was to have on starboard the normal razorback, but without one half-fuselage and one fin, this seems impossible (for my poor modeller skills)
- so I will less feature my aesthetical truncation, having alas a very different fuselage on the other side, like truncated (by engineers) for the bubble canopy
- as there will be no clear comparison between fuselages, there is no clear need for the bubble canopy, a single-seat zwilling like the Me109Z is fully possible, and this will be less difficult to read for visitors ignoring there were razorback and bubble P-47Ds...
- moreover, I hate the so fragile vacform canopies, after my almost-failure with the XP-77Z...
So the projects remain like it is: single-seat with only port as razorback, but delayed in case I find again the second razorback half-fuselage+fin...
Thanks anyway for your help, that may have been very useful...