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Ben
Very nice one! Looks stunning 🤙

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Underside colours added including Vallejo Model Air IJA Chrome yellow & Hataka Golden Yellow (mixed) and Vallejo Model Air USAF interior light green for wheel wells. Next will be airbrushing gloss varnish and adding the main decals. 🙂

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Decals now on. Next will be underside armaments. 🙂

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Paul Lw
Excellent!

Major Oak
Love this build did the mavis fly in the brown scheme as I remember seeing a build many years ago depicting that I've got the kit would like to do it in that

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Major Oak
Built many in the 70s not as good as yours well done classic kit 👌

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Desert Marlin
Nice work Guy!!!

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Another WW2 Japanese Air Force plane will be the next to add to my collection. 🙂

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Made a start on this heavy fighter. Main interior colour is Ammo Nakajima interior green. There is no decal provided for the cockpit controls therefore some black with dry brushed white used. 🙂

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Desert Marlin
Excellent work Guy!!!

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This will be one of two Japanese Heavy Fighters (other is the Ki-102 Randy) that I will be building in the near future.

Robert Podkoński
I am taking my seat here 🙂

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Final parts added and a satin varnish airbrushed on, I declare this project completed. 🙂

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P-47s started to be utilised in 1943 by the USAAF 4FG, the first flown operationally from England. The first air victory was achieved in Apr 1943 when a P-47 shot down a FW 190. By 1944, P-47 Thunderbolts were being flown operationally in all theatres except for Alaska.
The P-47M was a high speed variant introduced because of German aircraft such as the Messerschmitt 262 and the ME 163. This version had a 2,800 hp R-2800-57C engine with a CH-5 supercharger and the dive brakes of the P-47D-30. It also had an improved 13' Curtiss Electric C542S-B40 propeller fitted, and changes were made to increase speed. These improvements raised the top speed to 473 mph. A total of 130 P-47Ms were built of the 15636 P-47s of all variants built.
The aircraft denoted was piloted by fighter ace Maj Boleslaw Michal Gladych.
He was one of several newly commissioned pilots in the Polish Air Force who flew PZL P.7 fighters to Romania to avoid their capture by the Germans. He escaped internment in Romania and joined the Armee de l'air in France flying Caudron C.714 fighters.
He arrived in the UK in 1940 and joined 303 Polish Fighter Sqn of the RAF. In Jun 1941 he shot down 3 Bf 109s and then crashed his damaged Spitfire at RAF Manston hitting a telegraph pole and fracturing his skull amongst other injuries. He returned to operational service in Oct 1941 and in Jul 1942 was transferred to 302 Sqn RAF as a Flt Lt.
In Jan 1944, he unofficially arranged a secondment to the 56 Fighter Group and was assigned to 61 Fighter Sqn to assist training new American pilots. On 21 Feb 1944 he shot down 2 Bf 109s during a single sortie. He claimed a further 10 "kills" and 5 ground "kills" by Sept 1944. He officially was seconded to the USAAF in Oct 1944 as a Sqn Ldr but known by Americans as a Major.
During WW2, Sqn Ldr (Major) Gladych shot down 17 aircraft and 2 probables. He was awarded Virtuti Militari and the Cross of Valour by the Polish Air Force, the Distinguished Flying Cross by the RAF and the Silver Star with 2 clusters, the Distinguished Flying Cross twice and the Air Medal with 3 clusters by the USAAF.

Robert Podkoński
Terrific job, Guy! Thanks to you I know what colour I need to paint my Thunderbolt 🙂

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Nick Dragone
Real nice Guy, good work, impressive

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I now declare this one complete. Propeller, undercarriage, cockpit etc all added. 🙂

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The Finnish Air Force ordered 162 Messerschmitt Bf-109s from Germany. 48 G-2s, 111 G-6 and 3 G-8s. 3 were destroyed in transit but the remaining 159 Bf-109s' pilots scored 663 air victories in 1943-44 and lost 34 in combat. 102 Bf-109Gs survived the War.
The aircraft denoted here was flown by Warrant Officer Ilmari Juutilainen as part of 1./He LV 24 in June 1944 based at Taipalsaari.
Ilmari Juutilainen was the highest scoring non German ace of the Second World War. He scored 94 official "kills" although he claimed over 120. Born in 1914, he joined the Finnish Air Force in 1932 and learned to fly in 1933. During the Winter War and the Continuation War against the Soviet Union, he flew Fokker VIII (2 confirmed "kills"), Brewster Buffalo (34 confirmed "kills") and Messerschmitt Bf109 G .(58 confirmed kills). He celebrated being an ace in a day on 30 June 1944 when he shot down 6 aircraft (2 P-39 Airacobras, 2 Yak-9s, 1 LA-5 and 1 Il2 Sturmovic). He refused to be commissioned as he did not want Officer training to get in the way of flying missions.
Highly decorated, he was awarded the Mannerheim Cross twice, the Cross of Liberty with Oak Leaves and Swords 3rd and 4th Class, the Medal of Liberty (Finnish) and the Iron Cross 1st and 2nd Class (German).
He passed away in 1999 aged 85.

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Alberto
I agree with everybody else, very nice!

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Villiers de Vos
Perfect.

CaptGPF
Taking a seat for the show!

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Wings and tail plane attached. The wings needed filler as the fit wasn't great. Cockpit transparency fitted too. Next will be primer. 🙂

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