Official FMS 1500mm P-47D Razorback Thread

[jetfool]

Davegee,
Understand about limited flying on the bubble-top. I'm that way about my Corsair, not more than 7-8 flights but my Tigercat and P-47 will get much airtime this summer. Still fighting wind and rain here.
I plan to keep in touch with you guys and haven't heard from Elbee for a while but I'm sure he is flying and keeping tabs on us. Phantom is slowly being worked on so maybe Toledo for it next year. My buddy and I have come to the conclusion that we would need a large prop plane to compete with the national guys that show up. Need to finish my 90" 1/4 scale Boeing F4B-4. Its 3/4 done but the FL Corsair changed my building ways back in 2019. You and Elbee were the two main people that brought me into the foam scale models and I haven't regretted it. I'm ready to hit the button on a new Spectrum NX8+ and the E- Flite 1.0m Gee Bee.
Best Regards, Rex

[Grossman56]

Hey Rex, the NX8+ is great! I finally retired the old Dx8 as I didn't trust it after my last flight with my F8F Blue Angels Bearcat. I tell everyone to remember to set the antennae so that its vertical to the way you hold your radio, its a little tip buried in the back of the manual, beats the heck out of losing another airplane.
Looks like the weather may be decent so it might be time to drag out the ghosts (resurrected airplanes that spent some time in the garbage box) and get a pic or two.
Upon looking at the pics, Dave, I notice that the star and bar on the 'unpainted' wing is larger than the other, now knowing you, it's factually accurate, but what's the story behind that and how did you figure it out?

Dan

[Davegeee]

Hey Rex, the NX8+ is great! I finally retired the old Dx8 as I didn't trust it after my last flight with my F8F Blue Angels Bearcat. I tell everyone to remember to set the antennae so that its vertical to the way you hold your radio, its a little tip buried in the back of the manual, beats the heck out of losing another airplane.
Looks like the weather may be decent so it might be time to drag out the ghosts (resurrected airplanes that spent some time in the garbage box) and get a pic or two.
Upon looking at the pics, Dave, I notice that the star and bar on the 'unpainted' wing is larger than the other, now knowing you, it's factually accurate, but what's the story behind that and how did you figure it out?

Dan

Hi Dan: originally they put a star and bar on the upper left wing and lower right wing. These were about 40 inch diameter, I think. Eventually they started adding a larger 55 to 60 inch diameter star and bar on the bottom right wing (in England) and eventually a lot of airplanes had the big stars and bars on the bottoms of both wings. With the M model P-47s, they put a 55-60 inch diameer star and bar on the upper left wing only, and smaller 40 inch star and bar on the bottom right wing, with no markings on the bottom left wing . So, you can see that things changed very rapidly in markings.and in some ways there was a hodgepodge of markings on different airplanes even in the same squadron.

Hairless Joe is a very interesting case, as it changed markings often due to repairs after severe battle damage in the summer-fall of 1944. The way I decided to display the plane is how it probably looked for a short ime in late summer (probably August) of 1944. After a crash landing back at base in Boxted after being severely damaged in Holland due to anti-aircraft batteries in support of Operation Market Garden on September 17, Schilling was able to limp back home but one of the gear folded while making the landing attempt. The airplane had a bunch of changes as they had to replace parts of the tail and wing. Nonetheless, on December 22, Schilling used this patched up plane to record 5 kills on a mission, making his total 22.5 kills and about a dozen extra ground kills.

There are a few pics of Hairless joe in 1944 that shows the markings if you really look for them. But as you know when doing accurate guesses as to what an airplane looked like that you want to replicate, you really have to know almost to the month or closer what the airplane looked at during the time that you want to duplicate those markings. Period photos are the key. They changed very quickly during these times!

[Grossman56]

I hear you, I just thought that it was cool that your research was shown on the model. Great job!
I've been looking for reference pics for Shangri La as well, which is something I never thought I'd be doing! (Never say never)
So far, these have shown up...


Amazing what you can find.

Dan

[davegee]

I hear you, I just thought that it was cool that your research was shown on the model. Great job!
I've been looking for reference pics for Shangri La as well, which is something I never thought I'd be doing! (Never say never)
So far, these have shown up...


Amazing what you can find.

Dan

Those are great reference photos, Dan. Those can help you determine accurately how the airplane looked during its combat tour. With photos you can often make the right decisions how your plane looks.

cheers

davegee