Tamiya 1/72 P-47D

[jeaton01]

What a great kit, nothing but fun. I robbed some P-38 tanks from my Airfix F-80 scrap heap, and a 75 gallon tank from an Academy P-51D kit. The kit has only bazooka tubes and paper tanks, but the paper tanks were not used in the Pacific. This scheme is for the 69th Fighter Squadron which operated in New Guinea and the Philippines.

I could have weathered it more but in 1/72 it's so easy to overdo it, and what I did do is hard to see in the scale.

 

[moon puppy]

Nice finish John!

 

[Big10]

Excellent!!!

 

[Mo_]

If you hadn't of said it was 1/72 I'd never known! Looks great. I like the photo with the fuel truck.

 

[razordws]

Nicely done John!

Did that scheme come with the kit or are they AM?

 

[errains]

Excellent 47 there John!

 

[moon puppy]

Excellent 47 there John!

We prefer the term JUG....as in Jugs...:

 

[jeaton01]

Thanks, everyone. The markings are in the kit, as an alternate to the scheme on the box art. I'm working on a Hasegawa 1/72 P-38J now, it's like I'm back in the 60's again. Well, except for the fact that I am old!