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Para-pack racks/bundles for Monogram 1/48th scale C-47?

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  • Member since
    March 2008
  • From: Cincinnati, Ohio USA
Posted by Drew Cook on Thursday, December 14, 2017 11:10 AM

Thank you, guys.  With retirement coming up, I'll have a lot more time to try to scratch-build items like these.

I was, more specifically, looking for the rounded, bulbous fairings on the undersides of the C-47 fuselages that the para-packs were secured behind, rather more difficult to scratch-build than the para-pack bundles themselves. 

  • Member since
    September 2005
  • From: North Pole, Alaska
Posted by richs26 on Monday, July 24, 2017 12:34 AM

Here you go, just as Shep made them:

http://www.studium.com/graphics/miniatures/sp-c47.pdf

And there is many more sheets here:

http://www.studium.com/interviews/painefotos.html

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Monogram 1/72 B-26 (Snaptite) as 22nd BG B-26, 7-Mile Drome, New Guinea

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    March 2003
Posted by rangerj on Sunday, July 23, 2017 3:39 PM

I*n the early days of the release of the C-47 kit by Monogram Shep Pain did a diorama with a C47 being loaded with paratroops aan their gear. If I remember correctly the diorama included scratch built para-pack racks and bundles. I cannot remember if this was in a modeling magazine or a sheet with the model. Anyway I do remember looking for those items and never found aftermarket parts.  Try a search for Shep pains Monogram dioramas. When I lived in the Chicago area in the early seventies the IPMS club I belonged to would have Shep do a demonstration from time to time. He was an extraordinary modeler.

  • Member since
    March 2008
  • From: Cincinnati, Ohio USA
Para-pack racks/bundles for Monogram 1/48th scale C-47?
Posted by Drew Cook on Thursday, July 20, 2017 5:03 PM

Has anyone ever made after-market under-wing para-pack racks and bundles in 1/48th scale for the Monogram C-47? 

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