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A2A WOPIII P-47 Out Now!!!

Just uploaded another Southwest Pacific paint.

This one represents Lt. William "Bill" Mathis's P-47D-21-RE of the 19th Fighter Squadron, 318th Fighter Group, 7th Air Force, Saipan. This was actually the first production Dash 21 to leave the Republic factory and one of the first P-47s (with Lt. Mathis piloting) to fly from the deck of an aircraft carrier, an escort carrier at that. They did this after ferrying from Hawaii to Saipan. Before receiving the P-47s, Lt. Mathis flew P-38s. He transtioned to a P-47N in early 1945 and ended the war with 5 victoris.

Caz

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:friday:

Got me hands on the Jug last night, stayed up late 3-ish in the morning playing with a couple of them !!

Amazing Bird !!

Sooo much fun !!

Cheers !!:ernae::ernae:
 
jankees,

I have seen several versions of "Fat Cat" and it seems the canopy frame is red, not black, look at the tonal difference in the canopy frame and the black cat. Also to be authentic, you should add a little worn patch to the tongue on the port cowl.




Beautiful job anyhow.

Tired as I want to be, Been doing a wedding the past two days, sleepy now, want to have energy for the Martinsville race tomorrow.

Caz
 
Just curious, has anyone painted the captured Luftwaffe P-47?

If not, would someone be interested in doing so? One like this:
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Cazzie said:
jankees,

I have seen several versions of "Fat Cat" and it seems the canopy frame is red, not black, look at the tonal difference in the canopy frame and the black cat. Also to be authentic, you should add a little worn patch to the tongue on the port cowl.
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Red huh?
Can do! It also looks as if the cat has a ribbon on its tail, but I have no idea about the color. Any suggestions?
I thought about the bare patch on the tongue, but decided against it, I thought it looked better like this, besides, that patch wasn't always there. If you insist however...
Talking about worn patches, how's this looking?

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Does anybody have any idea what the original tail number of the "Sweetwater Swatter" could have been? So not the 42-nr, but the squadron code?
 
Jan,

It looks like Sweetwater Swatter belonged to the 340FS of the 348FG. It was flown by 1st Lt. William Otto Carter, Jr. 1st Lt. Carter was from Sweetwater in Texas, hence the name of the P-47. While being flown by another pilot by the name of Wallace Harding it suffered an oil pump failure and the pilot was forced to ditch in Waigani Swamp northeast of Port Morseby. The date was Oct 1st 1943 which will help with the markings.

Some links

http://home.st.net.au/~dunn/usaaf/348thfg.htm You can see from this link that 1st Lt. Carter was from the 350th FS

http://www.pacificwrecks.com/aircraft/p-47/42-8066.html

From my research the 340FS had a yellow tip on the tail fin (not blue). Also the numbers assigned to the 340FS were 1-25 at the time of the crash landing. It looks like the white stripe on the wing leading edge was standard at the time of the crash. From the photos I have seen of the 340FS you can eliminate 12 and 15 as possible ID numbers. Not a lot of help but it's all I can find.
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ICDP said:
Jan,

It looks like Sweetwater Swatter belonged to the 340FS of the 348FG. It was flown by 1st Lt. William Otto Carter, Jr. 1st Lt. Carter was from Sweetwater in Texas, hence the name of the P-47.

Some links

http://home.st.net.au/~dunn/usaaf/348thfg.htm You can see from this link that 1st Lt. Carter was from the 350th FS

http://www.pacificwrecks.com/aircraft/p-47/42-8066.html

From my research the 340FS had a yellow tip on the tail fin (not blue). Also the numbers assigned to the 340FS were 1-25 at the time of the crash landing. It looks like the white stripe on the wing leading edge was standard at the time of the crash. From the photos I have seen of the 340FS you can eliminate 12 and 15 as possible ID numbers. Not a lot of help but it's all I can find.
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Thanks Martin,

I didn't know that first link.
This paintjob came as a request from New Zealand (it stood for a few years in Auckland), with a few pics, showing a blue tail tip and no white leading edge. So I figured, I might as well do two paintjobs, one for the WWII version (hence the question about the tail number, I'll also have to remove the 4 from the serial), and one for the Auckland gate guardian, with a lot of weathering, hence the bald patches in the last shot.
I'll have another trawl through my books, but I think I'll just apply a random number I think..
About the stripe, I've found several pics with a mix of stripes/no stripe, so it seems anything is possible.
 
Jan,

I'm in a rush, heading to the NASCAR race at Martinsville.

There should be black stripes in the horizontal tails as you have it on the vertical tail. Back with you folks later this evening, it's racing weekend in the area.

Caz
 
That's one worn T-bolt!

Same red as in the Tongue or Fat cat script.

I've been racing, would be at another today if greed was a fact of life with race promoters.

Caz
 
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