Hi all,

I haven't seen any recent or popular Yellow P-47 builds on this forum yet, so I figured I'd start my own! My only other warbird experience is a rather short trist with a 1/7th Top Flite P-51, and I had such a good time putting that together that I thought I'd go back for more. I plan to use a DA-50 in this plane, and this will be my first giant-scale/gas build. I'm really excited about it!

The quality of this kit is amazing. The fiberglass work is just about perfect, with plenty of scale detail molded in. I love the way you can see through the polyester to the fixtures inside, this really helps when aligning and gluing items inside the fuse. The wing sheeting appears flawless. I think it would be hard to wind up with a poor flying model with just a bit of attention to the build process. Glass builds like this one sure reduce the variables vs a stick built plane, thats for certain.

Here's some shots of the early steps of this build. The cowl mounting and servo tray are attached with Hysol (Aeropoxy), as it sticks like crazy on the polyester fiberglass. Also, here's a quick video of the retract test.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SgFm8rQ1mM8

More to come soon.

Regards,
George