P-47 Thunderbolt

[Fruit]

Hello everyone!

Now I know I have the atomic blossom to get to, but I really want to join this here contest, so here goes!

I tried upload a video but I believe my computer is incapable of that, so here's some pictures.
The model is designed by Lukasz Fuczek, and is made available by Gremir in digital format (http://www.gremirmodels.com/) or by pre-print by Modelik.

Here's the date and time, for official reasons of course. I actually purchased the model from Gremir today and I'm starting on the fuselage formers tonight.



There's a shot of some of the diagrams that come with the model, and I believe a template or two.



And that's that for now! I'll try to upload the video on my brother's laptop because there's a lot more information in the video than on my pictures!

Updates to come soon!

 

[Quaralane]

Looks like it should be a challenge

 

[Grendels]

Great!!! One to follow during the contest!

 

[Myke]

This is so cool. I've never seen these before. Finally something I can take to my office and build. Can't wait to see your updates on this. (no pressure )

 

[Fruit]

Sigh. It looks like I'll have to drop this model from the contest due to time constraints. I was building the individual engine components and found that it takes me a little less than 1 hour to assemble one cylinder, and there are 18 cylinders. After doing some math, I figured this would probably take me months if I wanted it to be build like how I wanted to.

However! I will be substituting the Gremir provided P-47 Torrid Tessie rather than the Mary Lou, and I will make a separate entry and thread for that real soon.

Thank you Quaralane, Grendels, and Myke for expressing interest, I'll be making a new entry thread of another P-47!

 

[Quaralane]

Sorry to hear about the time thing. I had no idea it was that detailed

 

[Fruit]

I would say this model definitely excels in detail. When I say detail, I don't mainly mean graphics presented in the model, since, paper modeling focuses more on construction rather than paint, hence printing the model. The detail in this model is very intricate and construction is difficult due to the nature of the pieces.

Here's some shots of the templates that I took early this morning.

A few pages shown, there are 13 printed pages for this model, and 3 optional pages to be printed on metallic paper and different wing textures.

Notice the penny and 5 cm scale cube for reference. Although many pieces in 1:33, say the wings, are enormous, there are also many small pieces like the engine components.



Here's the main engine component with other pieces, notice the penny again for size.



And here's the cockpit instruments and what have you, again, penny for size.



Arguable the most meticulous, laborious, and tedious area of the entire model is the engine. I've known people who've spent weeks, even months to create these piston engines in paper. The result however, is very rewarding, at least so I've seen!





Well, that's that for now, I'm going to take pictures of my other entry and will post a new thread soon!

 

[Quaralane]

Wow.....

 

[Grendels]

Yes, wow!