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Thanks all. Been trying to find picture of Snorting Bull. As far as I can telll there are 3 aircraft by this name flown by James A. Mullins. The first Snorting Bull was a Razorback model, II and III both appear to have been Bubble Canopy models, P-47d-27's?
Very few pics of the aircraft are out there and I suspect the model I want to reporoduce as show in the Osprey book "Modelling the P-47 Thunderbolt by Brett Green" is Snorting Bull II? Can't find a good picture of this aircraft to verify the paint sceme. Just the Opsprey bok model, a 21st Century Model and the Aeromaster Decal sheet show this specific pain scheme so I will accept them as being accurate.
First Pic shows the Aeromaster decal sheet, middle aircraft is what I hope to reproduce, this is the aircraft picture the eludes me, seen other with similar marking, only the bull emblem is either on the cowl, or it does not have the black ring around the front edge of the nacelle as in the last picture (this is Snorting Bull III, I think)? Middle picture is a 21st Century model of the sceme I am looking for.
Got a few books to scan through tonight so I hope to fnd a picture of this aircraft.
Dohhh, Not my day, Ive been looking for the wrong aircraft.Though I think I pasted a picture of that aircraft. Must be time to go to bed For some reason I seen the siggy and thought that was the aircraft you needed.
No problem, I appreciate the effort. I did find one picture of this aircraft on this very web-site, just not in the specific paint scheme I was looking for. Not a lot of information out there on the 404th, low level bombing and strafing squadrons just did not have the glamour of the guys with big tallies of enemy kills. I find this part of the airwar very interesting myself.
I did download that book/unit history from the internet off from Winkton-dot-net web-site last week and noticed the same pictures. Did find these though. First pic is the Razorback, second is SB II and third is SB III. I am convinced the model I want to build is Snorting Bull II, but decals label it as Snortin Bull.
Guess a trip to the model shop is in order to see if I can find that decal sheet.
BTW, from where is Wisconsin do you hail? Too bad about what those Queens did to them Packers this weekend