1/48 Academy P-47 Thunderbolt

by Thanos Mentzelopoulos

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  Greece National Day 2007 

 

Well, the tide continues!  This time in the form of a P-47 by Academy.  An excellent kit without major fit problems, the only flaw being the slightly raised panel lines, but that's Ok with me!  The overall fit was so good that I hardly used any filler.  The cockpit and the engine were improved by scratchbuilding some of the visible details from plastic card and lead wire.  The model was airbrushed with several mixtures of aluminium shades, both enamel and acrylic.  I didn't use any special decal sheet; that means of course that all the artwork except the national insignia were had-painted!!!  The model was quite heavily weathered with washes and dry-brushing with chalk pastels. 

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Various aspects of the finished model.

 

I hope you enjoyed my P-47!  Although I don't like modelling the same subjects all the time, I must admit that this one was my second P-47 - you can see the other one on ARC, too!

I'm looking forward to my third P-47.  I wish there was one in 1/24!!!!!!!!!

Thanos

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Photos and text © by Thanos Mentzelopoulos