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Tamiya 1/72 P-47D-15

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  • Member since
    December 2002
  • From: Northern California
Tamiya 1/72 P-47D-15
Posted by jeaton01 on Monday, December 28, 2020 5:38 PM
What a great kit, nothing but fun. I robbed some P-38 tanks from my Airfix F-80 scrap heap, and a 75 gallon tank from an Academy P-51D kit. The kit has only bazooka tubes and paper tanks, but the paper tanks were not used in the Pacific. This scheme is for the 69th Fighter Squadron which operated in New Guinea and the Philippines. Lots of gas because range was always a problem for the P-47 in the Pacific.


I could have weathered it more but in 1/72 it's so easy to overdo it, and what I did do is hard to see in the scale.

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John

To see build logs for my models:  http://goldeneramodel.com/mymodels/mymodels.html

 

  • Member since
    February 2011
Posted by knox on Monday, December 28, 2020 7:01 PM

Love it. Great job!!

fox
  • Member since
    January 2007
  • From: Narvon, Pa.
Posted by fox on Monday, December 28, 2020 8:43 PM

Very nice build John! One of my favorite planes. Toast

Jim Captain

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  • Member since
    January 2015
  • From: Katy, TX
Posted by Aggieman on Monday, December 28, 2020 10:25 PM

Nice work, John.

  • Member since
    May 2004
  • From: Land of Lakes
Posted by cbaltrin on Tuesday, December 29, 2020 6:00 AM

Great Work John,  Nice clean build.    I have that kit as well. It's so beautiful in the box I almost don't want to start building it :-P  . I have the Rising Decals Corsica sheet which has a bunch of great schemes that I will probably use when I eventually build mine.

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  • Member since
    August 2015
  • From: the redlands Fl
Posted by crown r n7 on Tuesday, December 29, 2020 7:14 AM

beautiful job on the P-47!!

 

 

 Nick.

  • Member since
    April 2003
  • From: USA
Posted by keavdog on Tuesday, December 29, 2020 11:45 AM

Very nice John.  I just got my 1/48 razorback for Christmas and trying to figure out which markings to do.  Thats an interesting scheme you did.

Thanks,

John

  • Member since
    December 2002
  • From: Northern California
Posted by jeaton01 on Tuesday, December 29, 2020 9:55 PM

Thanks, everyone, your comments are all much appreciated.

I'm working on a 1/72 Hasegawa P-38 that dates way back to 1977, though it is nice in its own way.  Modeling whiplash!

John

To see build logs for my models:  http://goldeneramodel.com/mymodels/mymodels.html

 

  • Member since
    November 2003
  • From: Naples, FL
Posted by tempestjohnny on Friday, January 1, 2021 3:49 PM
Excellent

 

  • Member since
    July 2019
Posted by Hoss WA on Saturday, January 2, 2021 8:52 AM

Excellent! Cool scheme -- particularly the yellow trim on the canopy frame. Congrats. 

  • Member since
    December 2002
  • From: Northern California
Posted by jeaton01 on Saturday, January 2, 2021 8:33 PM

Thanks, John and Hoss.

John

To see build logs for my models:  http://goldeneramodel.com/mymodels/mymodels.html

 

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