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  1. This is HB981, a Republic P-47D-22-RE Thunderbolt attached to 135 Sq. RAF in Burma during 1945. At 04:45 on 2nd May 1945 it was taking off from Akyab Main to provide "cab rank" support for the Operation Dracula landings at Rangoon, when it lost power and ground-looped off the end of the runway, tearing off both wings in the process. Its relevance to me is that the aircraft contained my father at the time it performed this unplanned evolution. After the aircraft had come to rest, he popped out of the cockpit unharmed, then popped back in again to retrieve his parachute, since it was a chargeable offence to lose a parachute. Then he jogged back to the end of the runway, sat on the parachute, and waited for a vehicle to come and get him. At which point he cadged a cigarette off the driver. Shortly after that, he had his photograph taken, posing on the wreckage. (The photograph, you'll see, also had a fairly hectic later life.) The story is retold amusingly in Roger Freeman's Thunderbolt: A Documentary History Of The Republic P-47. (The squadron number is wrong - 135 Sq. didn't renumber to 615 until slightly later in the war.) Paints are Tamiya, LifeColor and Alclad. The 150-gallon (US) drop tanks are filched from a Tamiya P-47M kit, but the Hamilton prop (and its decals) came with the Razorback kit, although it's not required for either of the aircraft detailed in that kit. SEAC roundels, flashes and the tail number come from an Xtradecal "Yanks with Roundels" sheet. Eduard photoetch detail and placards, Squadron wheels, and an HGW Sutton harness which I found almost unusable. Finally, a comparison of the Thunderbolt and Hurricane, showing what a brute the Jug was in comparison. (My father used to take great delight in relaying the old RAF joke about how the easiest way to avoid enemy fire in a Thunderbolt was to release your harness and run around in the cockpit.) Possibly the drabbest Jug ever modelled. Sorry about that.
  2. Hello everyone... Ive just finished this one, Its Monograms Classic 1/48 P-47D Thunderbolt done in the kits markings. “The Turtle #10” 509th Fs. 405th Fg. September 1944. Stationed at A-64 near Saint-Dizier. This was built for the kit I build as a kid group build. http://wing.chez-alice.fr/USAAF/405th_FG/405th_FG.html “This is an aerodrome abandoned by the Luftwaffe and which will be identified under the code A-64. The men quickly took possession of the premises and the proximity of the town of Saint-Dizier.” Please feel free to ask questions, post comments, and or add thoughts. Dennis
  3. I've been building the Academy Bubbletop P-47 Thunderbolt "Eileen" in 1/72. I quite fancied the checker cowling but the decals wouldn't wrap around properly and also the problem I've found with some other Academy kits is that the decals won't even stick to the surface. I'm thinking of getting some aftermarket decals though they are around the same price as the kit purchased. I was thinking of painting a white band around the cowling though this would be more suitable for the Razerback P-47. Has anyone on here any experience with this kit? and how did you successfully get the b&w checked cowling? Another thing, looking at photos should Eileen have a black rudder? This kit does not show this.
  4. Hello all, This is my first RFI (although I did take part in a GB last year), and my first attempt at a base/vignette. It is modelled as the aircraft flown by Lt. Col. Benjamin Mayo, 84th FS, 78th Fighter Group, USAAF, based at Duxford, England, 1944. My wife picked the kit based on the cover art – something to put on her work desk (she’s American and instinctively drawn to the stars and bars). It probably wouldn’t have been a subject that high on my to-do list, but I really enjoyed getting into the project, as you always do once you start and do background research. I also thought a base and figure would be good to go with it, so the project grew… In addition to the many images that I used for reference, these are two which helped me compose the proxject. The first is of P-47s at Duxford, the second is of Capt. Dewey E. Newhart (who was killed in action on the 12th of June 1944 during a mission over Northern France. Incidentally, Benjamin Mayo survived the war): Tamiya 1/72 Republic P-47D Thunderbolt, kit decals (some electrical wiring and stretched sprue added for brake lines, wheel bay hydraulics and instrument panel wiring), Hasegawa figure, MDF/particle board base, 600 grit wet and dry sandpaper, Woodland Scenics grasses on top of sand/ground up cork/paint/PVA mix, and some DIY, including scratch-built wheel chocks. Acrylic paints (Model Masters silver, Tamiya olive drab), acrylic gloss “varnish”, with oil washes and some silver pencil “chipping”. The tarmac also got some pastel and oil treatment. The Tamiya kit is fantastic, but I wish I had done something other than use the kit decal for the seat harness. Many of the decals took some wrestling and involved quite a bit of MicroSol. Feedback welcome (and I appreciate that some of the oil washes are on the heavy side, now that I see the photos!). Thanks for looking, David
  5. Hi all, These are some pictures of my new OOB (or not so OOB) project: Thanks for coming by :-)
  6. Hi Here is a pair of quick weekend builds in my Boxted theme. I used the Minicraft kit which I bought recently from the Hannants Special Offers pages. The decals were by Print Scale and also bought from Hannants. The kits didn't fit together particularly well, with the single piece wing not fitting the fuselage halves at all well. The canopy also didn't very well. There was no interior, in fact not even an opening for a cockpit! The decals were very fragile and over-scale. The grey and green P-47D was one of ace, Colonel David Schilling's seven assigned machines and was declared War Weary in January 1945 after completing 55 combat sorties. Col Schilling was appointed group commander on August 12, 1944, commanding the 56th Fighter Group until January 27 1945. The two-tone blue P-47M was flown by Lt. Thomas W Smith Jr. of the 63rd Fighter Squadron and was named after his wife "Lib"(Elizabeth) who had returned to complete her senior year at "Ole Miss" University of Mississippi. I couldn't resist a group shot with my recently completed Sweet 1/144 Mustangs with their 1/72 cousins! Thanks for looking.
  7. Hi All, Academy's 1/48 Scale P-47D "Thunderbolt" (A cheap kit compared to others on the market) "Big bottom Bird" Built straight from the box and painted with Revell Enamels. Brian.
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