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**** DONE: 1/48 P-47M - Aircraft Nose Art GB.
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T Bolt
Colonel
Man that really looks great Andy. I'm going to have to do a 56th FG 47 one of these days.
Lucky13
Forum Mascot
Bl**dy brilliant mate! 
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Crimea_River
Marshal
Thanks all!
Shiny finish and deals imminent:
Shiny finish and deals imminent:
prem895
Staff Sergeant
The kids will love destroying that at Christmas
dneid
Staff Sergeant
Looking damned nice, Andy. That scheme is out of Zemke's group, I believe it was the 56th that was Zemke's?
Dale
Dale
Airframes
Benevolens Magister
Looking good there Andy.
Yes Dale, the 56th FG was 'Zemke's Wolf Pack', the only 8th AF FG to retain the P-47 throughout the war.
Yes Dale, the 56th FG was 'Zemke's Wolf Pack', the only 8th AF FG to retain the P-47 throughout the war.
Friggin' nice Andy....
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Crimea_River
Marshal
Thanks again everyone. Decals started last night with the fuselage insignia and they are going down well. However, I will need to adjust the light blue demarcation to go around the star and bars and bit more. I should have gone with my original thought of taping a template of the decal before doing the dark blue but thought I had it covered. I'll post pics tonight to show what I mean.
Looks good so far Andy!
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Crimea_River
Marshal
Thanks Hugh.
Tonight was devoted to correcting the light blue patch around the fuselage star and bar. The reference pics I have show the patch to almost always sweep completely around the insignia. Though there are no full-on shots of this area for Fireball, the detail below, with arrows, shows a definite attempt to clear the insignia with the light blue.
So here's the situation I had on the model after applying the decal. Note the lower portion of the circle intersecting and disappearing into the dark blue camo and the upper circle and right bar just touching the blue.
On the right side, I hadn't placed the decal yet, so I cut a template of the insignia and stuck it on to guide my new demarcation line.
To rectify the situation around the decal, I cut some masks and reduced the tack significantly so that they would not damage the decal on removal.
Then it was a matter of carefully spraying the light blue, followed spraying the dark blue to lower demarcation with the NMF and reshaping the area at the 10 o'clock position of the star to more resemble the detail in the above picture. The picture below shows this area finished and recoated with Future. Much better now.
The right side was similarly done and I will now wait a day to resume the decaling in these areas. In the meantime, I had already applied the large insignias on the bottom surfaces. The Aeromaster decal sheet makes a point of noting the unusual application of the oversize stars and bars on the bottom of BOTH wings for the 56th FG aircraft depicted on their sheet and I took their word for it since they quote seven or eight references. The Tamiya instructions show just the one for its 56th FG profile. Here's how that turned out. Hope it's correct?
Also, the nose art turned out well, though the orange ball is slightly transparent and shows the demarcation of the red and blue behind the decal. This one had me worried at first as it was quite rippled on application as it tried to fit itself around the curved surface. However, two applications of Solvaset did the trick and it sat down nicely.
I hope to get some more done tomorrow night and, if so, will post some more pics then. Thanks for continuing to follow this build and, for those who know best, do let me know if the second insignia on the lower wing is bogus.
Tonight was devoted to correcting the light blue patch around the fuselage star and bar. The reference pics I have show the patch to almost always sweep completely around the insignia. Though there are no full-on shots of this area for Fireball, the detail below, with arrows, shows a definite attempt to clear the insignia with the light blue.
So here's the situation I had on the model after applying the decal. Note the lower portion of the circle intersecting and disappearing into the dark blue camo and the upper circle and right bar just touching the blue.
On the right side, I hadn't placed the decal yet, so I cut a template of the insignia and stuck it on to guide my new demarcation line.
To rectify the situation around the decal, I cut some masks and reduced the tack significantly so that they would not damage the decal on removal.
Then it was a matter of carefully spraying the light blue, followed spraying the dark blue to lower demarcation with the NMF and reshaping the area at the 10 o'clock position of the star to more resemble the detail in the above picture. The picture below shows this area finished and recoated with Future. Much better now.
The right side was similarly done and I will now wait a day to resume the decaling in these areas. In the meantime, I had already applied the large insignias on the bottom surfaces. The Aeromaster decal sheet makes a point of noting the unusual application of the oversize stars and bars on the bottom of BOTH wings for the 56th FG aircraft depicted on their sheet and I took their word for it since they quote seven or eight references. The Tamiya instructions show just the one for its 56th FG profile. Here's how that turned out. Hope it's correct?
Also, the nose art turned out well, though the orange ball is slightly transparent and shows the demarcation of the red and blue behind the decal. This one had me worried at first as it was quite rippled on application as it tried to fit itself around the curved surface. However, two applications of Solvaset did the trick and it sat down nicely.
I hope to get some more done tomorrow night and, if so, will post some more pics then. Thanks for continuing to follow this build and, for those who know best, do let me know if the second insignia on the lower wing is bogus.
prem895
Staff Sergeant
You should be in the NHL,some great saves there. Looks great CR
fubar57
General
4 pages of catching up. Great job on the paint scheme Andy. The blues look a-ok on my screen.
Geo
Geo
N4521U
Plastic Pirate
That's lookin darned nice........
Good improvement there Andy!
Airframes
Benevolens Magister
Very nice work indeed there Andy.
And yes, you are correct in placing the stars and bars on the undersides of both wings. This was unique to the P-47 in the USAAF in the ETO, with not only both wings showing the insignia, but with insignia larger than standard - as large as would actually fit - in order to provide extra identification, including to friendly ground forces, in an attempt to reduce confusion with the FW 190.
As the P-47 was the only allied radial-engined fighter in the ETO, and there had been numerous examples of 'friendly fire', all P-47 units applied the extra stars and bars.
And yes, you are correct in placing the stars and bars on the undersides of both wings. This was unique to the P-47 in the USAAF in the ETO, with not only both wings showing the insignia, but with insignia larger than standard - as large as would actually fit - in order to provide extra identification, including to friendly ground forces, in an attempt to reduce confusion with the FW 190.
As the P-47 was the only allied radial-engined fighter in the ETO, and there had been numerous examples of 'friendly fire', all P-47 units applied the extra stars and bars.
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Crimea_River
Marshal
Thank-you gents. Terry, thanks for the input. I wasn't aware it was all P-47s
Vic Balshaw
Major General
Oh boy, you sure done good there Andy!
vikingBerserker
Lieutenant General
BEAUTIFUL!
