When Dave recently announced he was re-doing the P-47 Thunderbolts, I asked him to do a paint of a particular P-47. The aircraft I asked him to do was flown by Robert S. Johnson of the 56th Fighter Group.
A book written by Robert and Martin Caidin is titled THUNDERBOLT, and tells the story of Robert's tour with the 56th. What I first didn't understand is why there wasn't any photos of his P-47 in the book.
There is a reason for this possibly, WARNING THE NOSEART OF THIS P-47 IS NOT Politically Correct!
Attached are a couple of photos of printed pages, notice the parts have been printed on 11 x 17 cardstock. Scaled up to 133% of normal size, the part pages look great!
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Dave did a terrific job on this one! Colors look good, nice crisp clear lines, instructions look great (if any questions I plan to reference his build thread). Will install the cockpit, since he did spend time on creating one, however will skip the landing gear for now, plan to hang it from the ceiling in flight mode...
One thing I did notice, nothing serious, was the final page is a little off-center. Notice the green border was cutoff of the left side in the following photo. Didn't cause any issues, so minor wasn't going to mention it. Then began to think it might cause an issue if printed on A4 size?
Attachment 244547
Will be building as time permits! Tried to print these yesterday and my HP Designjet 120 decided it wasn't going to work. Spent most of yesterday downloading troubleshooting issues from the WWW.
Found out that the back cover/clean-out was loose and not making contact, this caused a yellow flashing warning light with a blank screen. After 4-hours of searching, took 30-seconds to fix.
Before I start cutting and building will post a paraphrased excerpt from THUNDERBOLT about what happened to Robert on the mission after he shot-down his first enemy.
Please note:
When Robert left England to head back to the States, he was the leading ACE from the ETO. Shooting down 28 enemy fighters in combat. No ground shooting or bombers, all 28 were fighters in the air. After the war some changes were made to the count dropping it to 27.
Mike
A book written by Robert and Martin Caidin is titled THUNDERBOLT, and tells the story of Robert's tour with the 56th. What I first didn't understand is why there wasn't any photos of his P-47 in the book.
There is a reason for this possibly, WARNING THE NOSEART OF THIS P-47 IS NOT Politically Correct!
Attached are a couple of photos of printed pages, notice the parts have been printed on 11 x 17 cardstock. Scaled up to 133% of normal size, the part pages look great!
Attachment 244546
Dave did a terrific job on this one! Colors look good, nice crisp clear lines, instructions look great (if any questions I plan to reference his build thread). Will install the cockpit, since he did spend time on creating one, however will skip the landing gear for now, plan to hang it from the ceiling in flight mode...
One thing I did notice, nothing serious, was the final page is a little off-center. Notice the green border was cutoff of the left side in the following photo. Didn't cause any issues, so minor wasn't going to mention it. Then began to think it might cause an issue if printed on A4 size?
Attachment 244547
Will be building as time permits! Tried to print these yesterday and my HP Designjet 120 decided it wasn't going to work. Spent most of yesterday downloading troubleshooting issues from the WWW.
Found out that the back cover/clean-out was loose and not making contact, this caused a yellow flashing warning light with a blank screen. After 4-hours of searching, took 30-seconds to fix.
Before I start cutting and building will post a paraphrased excerpt from THUNDERBOLT about what happened to Robert on the mission after he shot-down his first enemy.
Please note:
When Robert left England to head back to the States, he was the leading ACE from the ETO. Shooting down 28 enemy fighters in combat. No ground shooting or bombers, all 28 were fighters in the air. After the war some changes were made to the count dropping it to 27.
Mike
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