Completed Plastic Models: Hasegawa 1/72 Republic P-47D Bubbletop

     The Republic P-47, as covered earlier in my blog with the razorback version, was America’s great workhorse for the Army Air Corps in World War Two. It’s engine, a powerful Prat and Whitney R2800 radial, had the muscle power to dogfight any enemy aircraft it came upon and with eight M2 Browning .50 Caliber machine guns, it also had the fire power up front to attack ground targets as well as enemy aircraft.

     This Hasegawa kit was bought a few years ago because of my purchase of Sky Models P-47 decal sheet. The sheet came with various nose arts of famous pilots, as seen with the other P47 on my blog, which grab my attention to because of the uniqueness of nose arts on airplanes. Also, I was inspired by the P-47 Bubbletop version at the United States Air Force Museum which has on display a recreation of Col. Joseph Laughlin’s famous aircraft Five by Five. He commanded the 362^nd Fighter Group of the 9^th Air Force in early 1945.

     The plane was sprayed in Tamiya aluminum and detail painted with Testor’s enamel for the red and yellow. The olive drab was achieved with Tamiya acrylic that was taped off after the aluminum had dried. As always, the model was cleared with a gloss coat, decaled, and dull coated. Similar to the other Hasegawa P-47 on this blog, the kit assembles very well and I can’t wait to tackle another one of these aircraft with some special nose art. TRWBM.