1/48 Tamiya P-47D Thunderbolt

Gallery Article by Peter Ermel on Oct 18 2011

 

This P-47D from Tamiya was built "Out of the box". A Beautiful kit, that goes together with ease. The decals are a mix of the kit decals and Superscale 48-788 Razorback P-47D. I used a piece of guitar string for the whip antenna, and some EZE Line for the HF Radio Wire. The Paints are Model Master Olive Drab FS34087, Neutral Grey FS36270 and Testors 1184 Zinc Chromate (Yellow) for the wheel wells and gear doors. The model was pre-shaded with flat black on all panel lines. To weather the P-47, I dry brushed Aluminium on the wing root areas and the propeller blades, paint chips added using a grey artist pencil, aAnd some artists pastels for exhaust and gun stains. This Kit is a joy to build and I highly recommend it.

 

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This P-47D was from the famous 352nd fighter group "The Blue Nosed Bastards of Bodney". It was coded PE-K and the shared mount of Lt Jamie Laing and Robert "Punchy" Powell Jr of the 328th FS.

The aircraft displayed nose art on both sides. Starboard side was "Punchy's" with "THE WEST by Gawd VIRGINIAN" and Laing's side displayed "Jamie my boy". Punchy was credited with 2 kills at this stage of the war with shared kills of a Bf 110 and a He 177 helping the score board.

Peter Ermel

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Photos and text © by Peter Ermel