My second build - my second successful build, I should say - of Tamiya's 1/48 P-47D Razorback, kit 61086. This time, there were no major hiccups during the building process.

I had created a few Tamiya mixes and labelled the bottles. One was labelled FS34092, commonly known as Euro Dark Green, and a close match to the cockpit was color of P-47's. I think this mix was one part XF-26 Deep Green and one part XF-2 Flat White. There was no blue tint, which FS34092 usually has. I had also made a mix of one part XF-70 Dark Green 2 and one part XF-2 Flat White and labelled it Bronze Green - I think that is what I should have used. The first mixture is more US Medium Green. Oh, well, live and learn.

As with my previous build, I used Brite Touch light gray primer in a rattle as a primer. I had decided to do Yankee Tarheel from Eagle Strike 48054 American Jabos part IV 405 F.G. I couldn't decide what shade of blue to use. I found a couple of builds of this plane on the web, one on Large Scale Planes and another on Aeroscale. Both of these used a lighter blue than what the decal sheet showed, which was FS35180. I originally planned to use Model Air 71.317 All SV. Gol Light Blue, but when the bottle arrived from Sprue Brothers, it seemed too light. I ended up using a 50/50 mixture of Tamiya XF-8 Flat Blue and XF-2 Flat White, but I think that was too dark. It does look a little lighter in the photos.

As with my previous build of this kit, I used Mr. Color C-13 Neutral Gray for the underside and Mr. Color C-12 Olive Drab (1) for the top. I used a canopy mask from Pmask, number 48096, which worked very well.

I used the kit decals for the insignia. I used Mr. Mark Setter for those, and I have learned that it works quite well with kit decals from Japanese manufacturers. However, I had used Future as a pre-decal gloss coat, and the Mr. Mark Setter fogged a bit of the Future. I applied a bit more Future after the decals had been applied, and that took care of that. The specific markings for Yankee Tarheel went on fine with MicroSet.

Page last updated June 15, 2023.