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Republic P-47 Thunderbolt

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Revell 1/48 P-47N Thunderbolt

by Tom Bebout on March 22, 2020
in Aviation — 21 Comments

This is my latest off the bench and one that gave me lots of problems. Most if not all of the issues were self inflicted. The kit supplied cockpit is OK but wanting more I found a True Detail set a.k.a. Victor, that I was really happy with and [...]

1/48 Republic P-47D Thunderbolt.

by John Healy on March 13, 2020
in Aviation — 22 Comments

This is the 43 year old Monogram “Razorback” that was based on their 1967 “Bubbletop” kit. I found this original 1977 issue of the kit at a recent show and bought it for $5. The deal of the century! I realized while building it that it is the[...]

1/48 Tamiya P-47D “Miss Mutt”

by Tom Bebout on March 5, 2020
in Aviation — 19 Comments

Latest off the bench is LTC Robert Rowland's "Miss Mutt" which also carried the marking Pride of Lodi, Ohio. Rowland's birth place was in fact Lodi, Ohio, where he was born in 1917. He graduated in 1935 and then attended Ohio State University an[...]

1/48 Scale P-47D Thunderbolt “SWEET MUSIC.”

by Rodney J. Williams on January 13, 2020
in Aviation — 4 Comments

Back in 2007 I found a photo of this P-47D Thunderbolt and I bought a kit of it. The decals came from "AeroMaster Decals." When we moved from Colorado in 2016 to a town near the Los Angeles area of California, the model was placed in one of m[...]

The Class of 2019: Completions, and a couple major repairs…

by Frederick J Seitz III on December 30, 2019
in Uncategorized — 11 Comments

Hey Folks! At the end of the year, it's always nice to see everyone's , 'Year in Review'!! I do have a couple that are close, but they won't count, because this article deals with completed kits. All these kits are 1:48 Scale, from multiple [...]

Bostwick’s colourful P-47M Thunderbolt (1/48 scale

by Justin Bronk on December 27, 2019
in Aviation — 10 Comments

A 1/48 scale Tamiya kit build of Major George Bostwick's extremely colourful P-47M 'Hotrod' Thunderbolt as it was in mid-1945 after shooting down a Messerschmitt Me-262A jet. To celebrate this feat, it was marked with the addition of a black cow[...]

D-Day Remembered

by Tom Cleaver on June 6, 2019
in Aviation — 5 Comments

My friend, the late Archie Maltbie, had a pretty interesting D-Day story. That day he flew his first combat mission, as a pilot in the 365th "Hellhawks" Fighter Group of the 9th Air Force. From my article in this month's Aeroplane Magazine: A[...]

Tamiya 1:48 Scale, P-47D-27 Ra, “Thunderbolt”

by Frederick J Seitz III on June 5, 2019
in Uncategorized — 19 Comments

Typical Tamiya build...Loved it from end to end, (Except the decals,...YUK) Kit was a pleasure to build, and I am currently working on another, as well as a Razorback version. Markings are those of a P-47 flown by Capt. Edward Curry Powell, 510[...]

On This Day…May 24th.

by david leigh-smith on May 24, 2019
in Photo Collections — 12 Comments

The Battle of the Denmark Strait was a short, intense encounter that was a humanitarian disaster for the Royal Navy. In the early hours of May 24th 1941, the HMS Hood was sunk and with 1,418 souls on board, a staggering and scarcely believable[...]

Republic Thunderbolt P-47D – 1/72 Revell

by Roberto Lúcio - Boblucio on April 5, 2019
in Aviation — 10 Comments

Kit: P-47D – Revell 1/72 scale Model finished: February 2019 Modeler: Roberto Lúcio / [email protected] Club: GPP-JG400 – Grupo de Plastimodelismo e Pesquisa JG-400 / Natal – RN – Brasil Model built into the GB about Brazil during WW2, of our [...]