1/32 Hasegawa P-47

by Brian Waldorf

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Hello again everyone.  Here's a Hasegawa P-47 that I finished a few weeks ago.  I built the Col. Francis Gabreski version.  This kit was a real pleasure to build.  The fit and detail are superb and goes together very quick.  Most of the time was spent on painting and weathering.  Built mostly OOB with the addition of Eduard photo-etch seat belts and some wire for the brake lines and plug wires.

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Probably the only tricky part was assembling the cowling.  If you take your time and make some dry runs you shouldn't have any problems.  The only other problem is there is only a few reference photos of the Gabreski bird.  There is no photos of the starboard side of the aircraft that I found.  So I dug up what few photos that I had and viewed what other modelers have done to come up with a fairly close representation of his aircraft.

The cockpit is nicely detailed and I chose to paint the instrument panel instead of using the decal supplied in the kit.  The cockpit is Interior Green.  I painted the underside Camoflage Grey.  Topside was a base coat of LT Sea Grey with a few drops of dark grey to get the shade close to my references.  The next color was Dark Green to get the pattern I wanted.  After doing this, the color didn't look quite right so I finally found RAF DK Green and went back over my original pattern which looked more like the  correct color.  I applied the red last.  Then it was onto the standard clear coat of future, decals, weathering and wash.  All paints were MM except for the red which was Tamiya.

This was such an enjoyable build.  I highly recommend this kit if you plan on building a 1/32 P-47.  Again, thanks to everyone for contributing to this great site.
Brian Waldorf

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Photos and text © by Brian Waldorf