Tag: P-47

• Republic P-47 – Part Two – Is This A Thing?

  

  Well, the insides of the Hobby Boss P-47 kit were just as good as I expected – with the top-and-bottom fuselage construction and the crisp mouldings. The sprue trees were well-planned, and even if I do not use the wing tanks, I will have them for a future build. Basic fuselage has a very peculiar radio…

  Dick Stein

  May 12, 2018

  1:72 scale, American aircraft, Miniature photography, Model Airplane, Scale Models, Uncategorized

  Hobby Boss, mould, P-47

• Republic P-47 – Part One – The Gangster Connection

  

  I try to find a connection for my models – and this one is going to tie back to my father and a childhood friend of his – Hubert Zemke. They were kids in Missoula, Montana at a time when a German name and a German family brought insular righteousness down on you. So I…

  Dick Stein

  May 11, 2018

  1:72 scale, American aircraft, Miniature Philosophy, Model Airplane, Scale Models

  Hobby Boss, Hubert Zemke, P-47