1/48 Tamiya P-47D Free French – Ardennes early 1945
Ultracast Seat and Wheels
Berna Decals
Happy Modelling
Darren
10 additional images. Click to enlarge.
Ultracast Seat and Wheels
Berna Decals
Happy Modelling
Darren
10 additional images. Click to enlarge.
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Paul Barber said on September 8, 2020
Darren, as a less frequent visitor to the main boards here, now, I am really glad I looked in tonight! This is absolutely stunning – the paint job is faultless – the panel lines are so crisp, and the canopy – fit and finish are pretty much flawless too. Great subject; great execution and wonderful photography! Congratulations, Darren!
Manuel Magrinho said on September 8, 2020
TOP, top work! congratulations on a flawless build
John vd Biggelaar said on September 8, 2020
Fantastic, Darren.
You created a very fine looking P47.
Erik Gjørup said on September 8, 2020
GR8!
Robert Royes said on September 8, 2020
Beautiful job!
Greg Kittinger said on September 8, 2020
A beautiful Jug. Really interesting with those diminutive invasion stripes – I assume that was a French version to mimic the US stripes, though to different specs.
Tom Cleaver said on September 9, 2020
Beautiful work and a great result, Darren.
Allow me to pass on a bit of “obscure information” I got when I interviewed Dick Hewitt, squadron maintenance officer in the 78th Fighter Group, regarding “field repaints” of P-47s. There’s photo evidence of the French P-47s being delivered in NMF, so this is a field repaint, as was the 78th’s P-47 bubbletops. Anyway, field repaints were done with the flaps up, thus the leading edge of the flap remains NMF. The overall-OD flaps on P-47s is from production line paint jobs, where the flaps were not attached until they had been painted.
Anyway, not a complaint about this nice-looking model, just information for “next time.”
Darren Dickerson said on September 9, 2020
Hi Tom
Thanks for the info, much appreciated.
Have plans for a few 78th FG aircraft in the future – Eileen in both razorback and bubbletop versions.
Happy Modelling
Darren