This latest release
from Lifelike
Decals decal sheet
features three different P-47D's. This is Part 4 of a series dealing
with the P-47D's. The P-47D is one of the most famous US built fighters of
WW2. The Thunderbolt was a classic American design.....take a big
engine....and build a plane around it and load the wings up with big machine
guns.
This decal sheet provides a good
variety artwork and markings as you can see in the instruction sheets.
Each plane has some sort of nose
art or text or huge amounts of kill markings for a certain famous ace.
The first plane is a P-47D-30-RA
bubbletop, serial #44-33250 flown by Lt. Earl Kielgass of 396 FS, 368 FG from
Chievres/Belgium in November 1944. This aircraft has noseart of an Arozona
desert scene with the text "Arizona Loraine". This plane is
overall silver with a yellow nose and as well as the top of the rear fuselage
and the top of the tail. The yellow paint on the nose extend back to a
yellow lighting bolt on the side of the fuselage. Black code
letters/numbers on the rear fuselage are "C2 L".
The prop blades are black with
yellow tips and a silver prop hub. The landing gear doors are white.
There are black stripes on the tail and rear horizontal flying surfaces (stripes
provided as decals).
The second plane is a P-47D-30-RA
bubbletop, serial #44-33250 flown by Lt. Rpbert Ward of the 367FS, 358FG in
March 1944 from Toul France. This aircraft has nose art text of "Ole
Trapper IV" on the side of the fuselage below the canopy. This plane
is overall silver with an orange engine cowling ring and tail. This
aircraft has 15 kill markings....one of which appears to be a locomotive.
Black code letters/numbers on the rear fuselage are "CP
R".
The Third plane is a P-47M
bubbletop, serial #44-21125 flown by Col. David Schilling of the 56FG in Jan
1945 from Boxted. This aircraft has 33.5 kill markings. This plane
is 2 colour camo of dark green and gray on the top of the fuselage. The
prop blades are black with yellow tips and the wheel hubs are yellow as is the
rudder on the tail. The forward engine cowling ring is red.
Click on
images below to see larger images
The quality of these decals is of
good quality although the tiny 1/72 stencils were not as clear as I usually see
from Lifelike
Decals, so I would
suggest not using the stencils on this decal sheet. The colour of the decals appears
solid enough to prevent paint showing through the decals. Some decals
(such as the noseart decals) come in 2 layers to ensure good coverage.
You can purchase these decals
either directly from Lifelike
Decals at fax number is
+81-3-5680-6733, and e-mail is lifelike@eos.ocn.ne.jp.
or from HobbyLink Japan.
Other shops that stock Life like
Decals are *Hannants/UK, *Mister Kit/Italy, *Revi (publisher)/Czech Republic, *SkyGrid/Canada,
*Roll Models/USA, *Great Models Webstore/USA, *FlightDecs/Canada,
*Victory Models/USA
*M & Models/USA, *Zed
Hobbies/Australia, *AB
&S Enterprise/Australia, *Desert Miniature/USA
I highly recommend these decals
to anyone interested in P-47s.
Steve
I would like to
thank Lifelike
Decals for
providing me with this review sample.
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