Another
fine new sheet from Super Scale for the Hasegawa 1/32 P-47D Thunderbolt. This
time, it is the rather colorful aircraft 'Balls Out' as flown by Capt. Milt
Thompson during the last months of the war. By that time, the need to camouflage
Allied aircraft was really moot as the Luftwaffe was not that much of a threat.
Besides, most of it was either on the Eastern Front or used to intercept the
heavy bomber streams. For that reason, the ground attack units, which was
basically the job of the 405th, were relatively un-molested. Of course, flak was
always a problem, but with its air cooled engine, the P-47 was perfect.
This aircraft has quite a bit of red on it with the prop
hub, forward cowling, canopy frame, fin fillet, wing tips and front gun access
panels in red. In addition, the tail ID stripes were also painted red. Of
course, all this will need to be painted by the builder, but in this scale that
is not a hardship. The sheet provides all the unique markings, insignia and a
full data placement guide printed in full color in the instructions.
As with other new Superscale sheets,
these markings are superbly printed by Cartograf in Italy and
will make for a great presentation.
September 2009