Republic P-47 Thunderbolt
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Here is the last of my planned 362nd FG builds (5 completed so far with "Chief Seattle" from Eaglecals). Barracudacal decals used once again from their excellent sheet "Mogin's Maulers".
Ultracast Seat & [...]
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I have wanted this decal for long time, it was released as part of an IPMS special in the 90's. Never managed to get one, Barracudacals to the rescue with their 362nd FG sheet "Mogins Maulers". Ultracast Seat & [...]
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I started a self mini group build of P47's from 362nd FG using the excellent Barracudacals sheet "Mogins Maulers". Here is No.2 from this series of builds "Five by Five". Ultracast seat & wheels. I will [...]
P-47N-1 of the 318th FG, from the Trumpeter 1/32 kit with Zotz decals.
In March 1945, the 318th became the first fighter group to re-equip with the new P-47N-1 Thunderbolt. Following the invasion of Okinawa, the unit's ground component [...]
Since my Osprey book, "Aces of the 78th Fighter Group" is now available for pre-order at Amazon (pay no attention to the "place holder" artwork shown, Mark Postlethwait's painting of Gene Roberts scoring his 2nd of 3 [...]
Today we have Monogram's T-bolt, the old 80's repop that was in the Revell box. This version was issued at around the turn of the century.( Can't believe I wrote that, I remember reading about the turn of the century 1899-1900,yikes). [...]
An old build with new pictures. This is 1/48 Tamiya P-47D-1 Thunderbolt finished with the markings of the 61stFS / 56th FG based in Halesworth, England during the summer of 1943 .
This machine named “In the mood” was flown by Gerald [...]
Thanks for the welcome, everyone, I sure appreciate it!
Felt kind of funny not having anything to show, so I decided to load these pics of a 1/32 Revell P-47D that I did a while back. The build took twenty something years, and is [...]
This is my only remaining "Jug". The others have left the building in one way or another.
These are 2 Hasegawa 1/72 kits. They are mounted on telescoping tubes so they can be dismounted when traveling. The trees were borrowed [...]
Saipan...summer of "44"...decals from the Hasegawa P-47...bazooka tubes from the P-51D