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Guerre d'Algérie...1/48 Republic F-47D Thunderbolt , Armée de l’Air


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2 hours ago, franky boy said:

Nice choice of subject Reini. 
 

The P47 looks very nice in French markings. Are going NMF or olive drab/neutral grey!

 

James 

 

 

this is the Berna decal sheet

52002721535_30072f860e_b.jpgDSC_0001 by grimreaper110, auf Flickr

 

initially wanted to do this scheme, which is the early Algerian War scheme

52002721360_609f0f7b6b_b.jpgDSC_0002 by grimreaper110, auf Flickr

 

but then I realized that the Skyraider fuselage markings have the same size as the Thunderbolt ones, so gonna use some of them for a late Algerian War scheme

52001177277_b381d29139_b.jpgDSC_0003 by grimreaper110, auf Flickr

 

doing "QT"

52002193336_5c5147cab7_b.jpgDSC_0004 by grimreaper110, auf Flickr

 

52001176977_c911e4e733_b.jpgDSC_0005 by grimreaper110, auf Flickr

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almost ready for preshading

52007733846_b4091270d6_b.jpgDSC_0003 by grimreaper110, auf Flickr

 

the French wartime Thunderbolts had two rocket racks mounted on each wing between landing gear and bomb rack, using either US HVAR rockets or almost identical French P-10 rockets.

Took some from an old Revell P-47N kit

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found some color pics where you can see, that the inner side of the landing gear doors were painted in a leather brown tone, therefore my dad and I suppose, that the wheel wells were painted on that colour too

52010823416_90730a6e87_b.jpgDSC_0006 by grimreaper110, auf Flickr

 

different kinds of napalm tanks were used

gonna add BLU-11 from a Hobbycraft F8F kit

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decided to use the smaller BLU-27 napalm tanks from the Hasegawa Weapon Set A instead of the thick, large BLU-11 Hobbycraft ones

52063312641_549b50c4ab_b.jpgDSC_0007 by grimreaper110, auf Flickr

 

gonna add an early style center drop tank seen on French postwar F-47, taken from a Tamiya Razorback kit

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main landing gear almost done

also added two rocket racks on each side which all Algerian War Thunderbolts had, Hasegawa parts from the sparesbox

there where v-shaped struts between the frontal rocket rail stubs, but everything is so small, gonna leave them away

52098805719_4b91ac4f7f_b.jpgDSC_0008 by grimreaper110, auf Flickr

 

52097542057_b4976efbae_b.jpgDSC_0009 by grimreaper110, auf Flickr

 

52098569216_3257bf1152_b.jpgDSC_0010 by grimreaper110, auf Flickr

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