Markings for three Thunderbolts of the 368th Fighter Group in 1:32 scale. The sheet contains the P-47D-30-RA with the serial number 44-33576, the letters D3 and K and the name Hard to Get, then the earlier P-47D-23-RA with the serial number 42-74651 with a raised fuselage spine and the name The Down Necker, and with it the same inscription in the form for a later machine with a bubble canopy, number 44-30847.
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The interesting thing about this sheet is not the number of subjects but the fact that one name appears on it twice, each time on a differently shaped airframe. That gives the modeler the option of building the same inscription either on the earlier form with a high spine behind the cockpit or on the later machine with a bubble canopy and a lowered spine.
The first subject is the P-47D-30-RA with the serial number 44-33576, which carried the code D3 and the individual letter K on the fuselage. It was flown by a pilot named Harris Krause and the machine carried the inscription Hard to Get.
The second aircraft, the P-47D-23-RA with the serial number 42-74651, belonged to the pilot Bob Hellwig. It was a machine with the high spine retained and with the fuselage marking A7 and the letter R. The third variant on the sheet is the same inscription carried over onto a Thunderbolt with a bubble canopy, serial number 44-30847. For that one the supplier adds that the painting of a duchess figure on the nose was added only later, that is, after the basic inscription was finished. It is exactly this detail that makes the third subject the most interesting item on the sheet.
The move from the full spine to the bubble canopy was the most striking alteration to the silhouette of the whole Thunderbolt. The rear part of the fuselage was lowered, the cockpit was drawn further back, and the inscriptions and national insignia had to be shifted. For the builder this means that one kit will not do; the kit manufacturers list both forms separately and they have different fuselage parts.
The sheet is soaked, the markings slide off it and are transferred onto the surface of the model. Obtain the kit in the matching scale and the paints separately.
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