Yes, big bummer on the P-47. Luckily, I have a friend who is a very gifted painter, paints cars for a living. He has the liquid metal paint and the skill set to get close to what Graham did. The riveting was easier than I thought. It will be very close in appearance and dramatically stronger!
There are lots of people using the Kolm without all the ducting and fans, don't wanna go there. I can't see how you could do it and have a full cockpit and anywhere to place the radio gear anyway. I'll be using telemetry on this plane, temp sensors on both cylinders, I'll get it figured out. Gonna start conservative with the holes, I can always enlarge them. The baffle kit Hans came up with is slick. Just need to fire it up and see how it goes. Spent some time on the servo tray and radio tray to hold the Robbe 2018 and batteries last night. Its getting close to going to paint!