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The Mexican Air Force...

jankees

jankees

SOH-CM-2025
..flew one squadron of Thunderbolts in the Pacific, which was attached to the 89th FG in the Phillipines. I always thought they only had bubbletop P-47's, but it turns out that they started out with 'borrowed' aircraft, including a bunch of razorbacks. As I always liked their paintscheme, I just had to give it a go.
Here's a few WiP shots, what do you think?

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Looking awesome, but then all your paints do,cant wait for this one, and I know it wont be long! How you make so many great paints so quickly is astonishing!
 
This paint looks splendid and most welcomed to my hanger as a 1st paint added to my P-47. Thank you Jankees.
 
Always good to hear that you like it.
I corrected a few bugs, added a mexican triangle below the wings, and I'm almost ready to go, expect an upload s...

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No real source, it was a combination of
- a book on the thunderbolt in the Pacific Theater (picture of P-47D-30 #18 and a profile of #21, showing the outline of the stripes in yellow)
- aeroplane magazine of june 2009 ( unclear picture of razorbacks with the 201st, which got me started)
- serial number of one of the Razorbacks from this site: http://pagesperso-orange.fr/p-47.database/
- general idea for the scheme from a bubbletop repaint done by someone else (sorry, I forgot who did it)
- a few assorted pics from the internet
I had no real pic of a mexican razorback, so I decided to copy the bubbletop #21 scheme with a razorback serial.
The site you mention was unknown to me, interestingly, it shows a profile of the aircraft I've painted (42-25412), but in its original colors. Did it fly like that, or was it repainted? Both this site and the other mention #4 for this aircraft, which the pic doesn't show? We'll probably never know...

So in the end, I painted it in the way I wanted to paint it, but probably not historically correct....still looks good though, well, I think so anyway..
 
jankees said:
No real source, it was a combination of
- a book on the thunderbolt in the Pacific Theater (picture of P-47D-30 #18 and a profile of #21, showing the outline of the stripes in yellow)
- aeroplane magazine of june 2009 ( unclear picture of razorbacks with the 201st, which got me started)
- serial number of one of the Razorbacks from this site: http://pagesperso-orange.fr/p-47.database/
- general idea for the scheme from a bubbletop repaint done by someone else (sorry, I forgot who did it)
- a few assorted pics from the internet
I had no real pic of a mexican razorback, so I decided to copy the bubbletop #21 scheme with a razorback serial.
The site you mention was unknown to me, interestingly, it shows a profile of the aircraft I've painted (42-25412), but in its original colors. Did it fly like that, or was it repainted? Both this site and the other mention #4 for this aircraft, which the pic doesn't show? We'll probably never know...

So in the end, I painted it in the way I wanted to paint it, but probably not historically correct....still looks good though, well, I think so anyway..
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Ok............it looks nice anyway.....:kilroy:
 
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