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  1. Thanks guys for the kind words! This one is in the can. Here's the final result:
  2. Hi everyone! My Trumpeter C-47 is finally complete. See below link for the in progress thread: All in all, it feels like I didn’t use about 1/3 of the parts in the kit due to them being inaccurate. Even though it’s much newer than the Monogram/Revell offering, it’s probably less accurate, so it’s really a toss up as to which is better. Although I’m happy with the result, I’m glad to have this project over with. Just don’t ask me to build another 😝 After my last in-progress post, I added all the antennas and drain ports on the underside. The antenna
  3. The exhaust staining on the underside of the wings was achieved with the starship filth oil paint. The exhaust stacks still looked too clean compared to the rest of the plane, so I lightly airbrushed some Tamiya black panel line wash over them after I took these photos. To represent dirt and mud being kicked up by the wheels, I loaded a paintbrush with a brown enamel wash and used a toothpick to flick the wash around the back of the wheel wells. The landing gear was heavily weathered with a brown enamel wash. A clear flat coat was firs
  4. Hi everyone, one more update before I call this one finished. Weathering is now complete. I started by creating some chipping using Tamiya enamel silver X-11 applied with a sponge as well as a small brush. I then followed up with an AMMO panel line wash, then sealed it with a coat of Mr Color GX113 clear flat. With the previous steps sealed, I applied oil paints for general weathering. Since I’m depicting a war-weary plane, I wasn’t afraid to go heavy with the weathering, following reference photos for guidance. Many photos of planes with the larger carborator intakes show fluid leads ar
  5. Thanks Steve! Thanks Geoff! Thanks John! Thanks especially for the description of the tubing around the windows. I still need to add a bit more of the tubing around the center of the cockpit windows, but it's more exposed, so I'm waiting until final assembly to add it so it won't be damaged.
  6. Also, I painted the wheel wells. I applied an initial wash of Ammo black night panel line wash. I’ll make them dirtier later on when I weather the rest of the model. On another note, I decided to throw out the kit propellers even though I had already painted them and tried to reshape them to match the shape of the Hamilton Standard props that most C-47’s had. Since the B-17 propellers seem to be the same type as used on the C-47, I bought a set of Quickboost B-17 propellers to use instead. Below is how the compare to the kit props after I tried to modi
  7. Thanks Mike! Hi everyone! I’m finished with the painting, so it’s time for an update. Before I could start with the painting, I created masks for the windows with my Silhouette Cutter and Oracal 810. One other thing I wanted to do after masking the windows, but before painting is to add the wiring around the cockpit windows. I see this on all photos of C-47’s, but I’m not sure what it’s used for. I used 0.2mm diameter lead wire to replicate it using tiny amounts of CA to secure it in place. Having the masks in place protected the windows while I secured the lead wire.
  8. Thanks John! The joint between the wing midsection and fuselage took several bouts of sanding and priming until it was invisible. I'm not sure what the two pods are under the fuselage just ahead of the leading edge of the wings. Trumpeter does provide those in their kit, but I opened up the ends to match what they look like in reference photos. Most C-47's have them based on my research, so I'm assuming the plane I'm building also had them. Thanks Steve! I can't believe how many inaccuracies this kit has. It's a shame that the only options for a 1/48 C-47/DC-3 is th
  9. Thanks John! Merry Christmas everyone! I've got some pictures to share of the progress I've been able to make while I burn some vacation time. I've mostly been working on the landing gear. After comparing photos of the real C-47 landing gear to Trumpeter's interpretation, I've noticed some significant issues. The primary one is that the main landing gear is about 5 mm too short overall! I've heard of this mentioned in kit reviews, but never noticed it until comparing the kit to photos of the real thing. The bottom section of the landing gear length is ok, but I had t add the
  10. Thanks Greg and John! Here's my latest progress over the past few weeks. I had the Quickboost exhausts, but they really aren’t any improvement over the kit exhausts. Also, the kit exhausts don’t seem to be based on the exhaust design seen I see on C-47’s during WWII. The WWII era exhausts have a larger diameter, but a shorter exit flare. To get the kit exhausts to look more like the wartime design, I increased their diameter by shaving their diameter down so I could slide some 0.20” OD styrene tubing over the part to increase the overall diameter. Then, I wrapped the part with
  11. Thanks Rod! Maybe if we wait long enough, someone like Tamiya will come out with a well fitting, accurate, and detailed C-47, but I'm not holding my breath! Thanks Steve! The problem is that all these details take an eternity for me to add (sometimes after multiple attempts), but the result does help motivate me to stay enthusiastic and want to see this thing to completion. Thanks Rich!
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