1/48 Tamiya P-47D Thunderbolt

Gallery Article by Rafi Ben-Shahar on June 6 2009

D-Day - Allied Landings in France in 1944

 

You may get more than you imagine from an OOB "project." In this example, I studied the "Mighty Eighth in Color" by Roger Freeman before getting into my traditional bare metal finish methods. 

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The Tamiya "Jug" is suitable for the purpose as it does not require putty at all. So, off went the tradition and I concluded that the jigsaw of panels painted in a variety of aluminum tones is nice, but not real. 

Bottom line, the finer you get with your airbrush streaks, the better.

Rafi Ben-Shahar

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Photos and text © by Rafi Ben-Shahar