P-47 blueprints?

[Voyager]

Looking around for a good set of P-47D blueprints, either razor back or bubbletop. I'm seeing a number of different pay sights willing to sell them, either on DVD or by subscription and was wondering what other people's experiences with these have been? Good/bad/indifferent? 

 

I'm mostly looking for them in electronic form, or a form that I can get good, consistent scans from. 

 

Any recommendations for good sources? 

 

Thank you, 

 

Harry Voyager

[LukeFF]

AirCorps Library

[Voyager]

31 minutes ago, LukeFF said:

AirCorps Library

So you've had good experiences with them? They were one of the hits that came up in my searches but hadn't dealt with them myself yet. 

[LukeFF]

53 minutes ago, Voyager said:

So you've had good experiences with them? They were one of the hits that came up in my searches but hadn't dealt with them myself yet. 

 

Yes, I've downloaded tons of info from them, and I know that the development team uses them as a resource. It's well-worth the small monthly price.

[Legioneod]

5 hours ago, LukeFF said:

AirCorps Library

This.

 

I use them all the time. Was using some of the blueprints to model a P-47D-22.

 

Lots of good stuff on there.

[SCG_motoadve]

Aircorps is working on a P47, lots of internal structure great pictures

 

https://www.aircorpsaviation.com/october-november-dakota-territory-air-museum-p-47-update/?fbclid=IwAR17Ad2KJ-Bz8QEsR7dwzFm7z47bEgzCrUAajE7p-HidscOa-IQVBsx1KQc

 

 

[Voyager]

@SCG_motoadveWait, do they have full up CAD models of the bird? My mad idea is to build one up and see if I can do a finite element analysis of what happens to it under fire, and if reliable CAD models are already well under way, I'm thinking it would be better to start there than purely from blueprints. 

[Legioneod]

1 hour ago, Voyager said:

@SCG_motoadveWait, do they have full up CAD models of the bird? My mad idea is to build one up and see if I can do a finite element analysis of what happens to it under fire, and if reliable CAD models are already well under way, I'm thinking it would be better to start there than purely from blueprints. 

 

They made some CAD models when first rebuilding the D-23 not sure if you can get them though. 

Some pics of the model.

 

It's a ton of work to build a model like this, lots of blueprints you have to go through and find and then understand how to read them.

 

 

 

 

 

[Gambit21]

What's the purpose?

As a 3D modeler I know how much work this is.

It took me a year to model and texture (and finally render) my P-51D, and it was purely external except for fully modeled landing gear bays.

[Voyager]

The goal would be to have a structural model that could be tested, essentially to simulate battle damage and its effects. Point taken about the scale of doing the entire model. Though I'm not sure a couple of years is actually out of the question. How long have we been arguing P-47 damage modeling again? 

 

I'm thinking for these purposes one does not need the entire model all at once, and it does not need to be done entirely by a single person, though would need someone to handle quality control. Thinking either a wing spar model or a tail empenage model should be a good first test? 

 

Now I just need to find out what the typical damage test simulation methods are called...