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Tamiya P-47D (Dan'l Boone Saipan 1944)

Hey everyone. This is the Tamiya P47D I finally finished after about a year of just sitting there.I'm not a plane guy, so I'm less skilled with them and thus less inspired to work on them when I get spare time. However,I'm pretty happy [...]

Gabby Jug: 1/48th Hasegawa P-47D Thunderbolt

The 1/48th Hasegawa P-47D Thunderbolt kit release in 1996 reset the bar for the best Thunderbolt on the market... for a few years anyway. I wanted to have Gabby Gabreski's uniquely painted P-47 Thunderbolt in my collection for some time [...]

MiniArt P-47D-25RE “Hairless Joe”

Flown by Col. David Schilling, 62nd Fighter Squadron, 56th Fighter Group, 8th Air Force, August 1944. Schilling, a big fan of the comic strip “Li’l Abner”, wrote the cartoonist, Al Capp, for permission to use his characters as nose [...]

Invasion Stripes / Flight 19, 1/48 Tamiya Republic P-47D-28RA Thunderbolt "Eileen"

Building this model was a first for me. Believe it or not, this is my VERY first Tamiya P-47. EVER ! I know, sad but very true. I know, I need to get seated at the bench more often... but life has a bad habit of interfering with the [...]

Review: 1/48 scale MiniArt P-47D-30RE Thunderbolt "basic" # 48023 Kit Review

This is a model that I knew I had to get my hands on once it was available. Lo and behold, it was offered for "Presale" at Squadron a month or so ago... Just when I spent too much on other kits for Christmas and I thought my [...]

P-47D Thunderbolt, 1/48 Italeri

Hi all ! This is my latest model, the P47D 1/48 Italeri. My first metallic color kit, and trying to give this old used condition as usual... The instruments in the cockpit with dry brush worked well. I also made my own masks for the canopy [...]

The 1/48 Tamiya P-47D Razorback “Gail Ann” Project is complete!

At the start of the week I applied decals, lightly weathered the aircraft, added the fine details and installed the canopy. With the aircraft completed I then detailed the display case and mounted the aircraft. The model will be packed up [...]

P-47D Thunderbolt Razorback - HobbyBoss 80283 - 1/72

And another HobbyBoss 'Easy Assembly' kit with some ordnance borrowed from a Tamiya kit with some left over decals from Eagle Cals EC#56. THe decals allowed me to display Col. Frank Klibbe's P-47 D-15-RE Little Chief No. 1A which had [...]

P-47D: "Sleepy Jean the 3rd"

Hey All. My latest completion. Tamiya, 1/48, P-47D Bubbletop. Built OOB but with Meteor Productions PYN-up decals, markings of P47D-28-RA of the 395 FS/368 FG, “Sleepy Jean the 3rd”. This was my first Tamiya P-47 kit and a pleasure to [...]

Republic P-47D ThunderboltMonogram 1/48

I've finally completed this kit after a long period of in-process limbo. But first I must briefly explain how this kit came to be on my work bench in the first place. It all started when I purchased a second-hand Hasegawa P-47D, mainly due [...]