Hawk Chrome Plate Republic P-47D Bubbletop

Holger Kranich
Shiny, glossy, wonderful painted! How much time have you invested in preparing the plastic for painting?

Bruce Cooper Författare
Holger—so good to hear from you. I wish I could take credit for creating the chrome, but the Sixties era kit is pre-finished. I am adding aftermarket, though in the end to I hope bring about a more modern representation.

Holger Kranich
Its pre finished with chrome? Wow! For such an old kit, its remakable! The wheel wells look great, too! Aires and you made a good job there.😢

Bruce Cooper Författare
That was a lot of sawing to cut the Aires down to size, for sure! Appreciate your thoughts, Holger. Looking forward to catching up on your finished works—from what I can see already, a lot of incredible projects! All the best.

Alexander Grivonev
Pre finished chrome parts for natual metal airplanes? Interesting, never knew they made them but actually a nice idea, the finish looks quite exceptional on this one. What are yo going to do about the seam lines?

Dave Flitton
Watching! - seam lines and all!

Choppa Nutta
"What are yo going to do about the seam lines?"
yeah I was thinking that too.
handily the front end has a painted upper surface and the rear turtle deck might be a single piece ?
Any chance of a photo of all the kit parts please ? 🙂

Clifford Keesler
Nice project.

Bruce Cooper Författare
Hello Alexander, Dave, Choppa and Clifford! Thank you all for visiting and leaving your comments! I added another batch of photographs—including shots of kit parts specifically for Choppa Nutta. I don't have all of the kit parts photographed. When I received the kit, most of the parts were off sprues. I did make a sprue count and parts count when I received the kit.

MANUFACTURER: HAWK MODEL COMPANY
CATALOG NUMBER: 212-200
RELEASE DATE: 1965
PARTS COUNT: 57
SPRUES: 4 "MULTI-TEXTURE PLATING," 1 BLACK, 1 CLEAR
DECALS: MARKINGS FOR MAJOR GLENN EAGLESTON's 354th FG 9th AIR FORCE and 10th or 14th AF BURMA-BASED RAZORBACK

Ben M
Would love to see how this turned out. I built a chromed F-104 when I was a kid. I used testors silver on the seam lines and I remember it being pretty decent.

Clifford Keesler
Looking very nice there sir.