Republic P-47 Thunderbolt
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Col. Joe Laughlin and the 362nd Fighter Group:
Joseph L. Laughlin joined the USAAC in 1939 and received his wings and commission in June 1940, and was assigned to the 14th Pursuit Squadron at Wheeler Field, Hawaii that September.
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The aircraft itself doesn't need to be introduced in very detail. Big radial engine, 8 guns, superb speed and thoughness, this is the real workhorse designed to deal with heavy damage and spread a panic inside the enemy's formation... [...]
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This is the Hobbyboss's P47D in the Easy Assembly range. I was so curious to see what it could be done with 30 pieces of plastic. Finally, it look fine (to my humble opinion) and allow to spent more time with painting, chipping [...]
This is the 'Jug' flown by Capt. Edward O. Fisher of the 377th. FS, 362nd. FG, in 1944.
The kit was built a few years ago but is still one of my favourites. Build was out of the box with Model Master Metalizer paints & Eagle Strike [...]
This is Academy's rendition of Maj Howard Park's P-47 D in quarter scale. Although not on par with the Hasegawa and Tamiya offerings, it is nonetheless an acceptable replacement that with the necessary TLC builds into a fine P-47 D. The [...]
My rendition of Lt. Chauncey Rowan's mount. Tamiya 1/48 scale P 47 D Razorback. Model was painted using Model Master enamels. Weathering was done with salt, watercolours and Tamiya weathering kits. Eduard cockpit goodies and scratchbuilt [...]
Decals donated from Bombshell decals. Model painted with tamiya paints. This is fifth plane completed from my 352nd FG build. With two more Mustangs in the works
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Here's my version of the Revell (Monogram to my old way of thinking...) P-47D 'Razorback'. I tried to model it after the one you see on the book in some of the photos. The book is a 1989 Squadron/Signal Publication titled "49th [...]
You may have read recently that Kinetic has bought the moulds to the VFS 1/24 Thunderbolts.
These were originally produced by Ray Thomas, and I bought my kit from him at the Hornchurch show in 2009, and built it a year or so later when it [...]
Not a completely accurate depiction of Lt. John Godfrey's P-47, changed a couple of little things to suit what I wanted to build, dropped the emblem and made him an ace.(I know he clocked up around 16.33 kills but in Aeromasters Debden [...]