Brad,

I am looking forward to seeing the P-47.  I can undserstand what you are talking about on fuselage joins.  When I built my C-47 both halves of the fuselage were warped.  I ended up starting on one end and glueing 1" at a time.  I do use liquid cement and that helped a bit.  Still took me an entire evening to get the fuselage halves together.

God Bless,

Ken