Lifelike Decals

1/72 P-47D Thunderbird Part 6 decal sheet

Product # 72-033

Product Article by Steve Bamford on May 22 2014

 

This decal sheet from Lifelike Decals features three different P-47D's.  This is Part 6 of  a series dealing with the P-47D in 1/72 scale featuring planes with noseart and colorful markings from March 1944 to April 1945.

The 3 aircraft include noseart including 1or 2 with sexy noseart....depending on your definition of sexy.  The 3 aircraft featured on this decal sheet are:

  • P-47D-30-RE, 44-33087, flown by Capt. Jay van Bloom of the 46FG/514FS in Handorf Germany in April 1945.

  • P-47D-4-RA, 42-22762, flown by Lt. Samuel Stamps of the 56FG/63FS in Halesworth AB England in Feb/Mar in April 1944.

  • P-47D-28-RE, 42-29173, flown by Lt. Clarke Bresmeth of the 405FG/510FS in St. Dizier AB in France in the autumn of 1944.

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The quality of these decals is of very good quality.  The decals themselves are clearly printed and in perfect register.  Some decals come in 2 layers to ensure perfect registration.  You get enough stencils (so many stencils) and national insignia for 1 aircraft.  

This decal sheets gives you a wonderful selection of paint schemes from  bare metal to Olive drab and all with noseart and colorful markings....very nice indeed. 

You can purchase these decals either directly from Lifelike Decals at fax number is +81-3-5680-6733, and e-mail is lifelike@eos.ocn.ne.jp. or from HobbyLink Japan.    

Other shops that stock Life like Decals are *Hannants/UK, *Mister Kit/Italy, *Revi (publisher)/Czech Republic, *SkyGrid/Canada, *Roll Models/USA, *Great Models Webstore/USA, *FlightDecs/Canada, *Victory Models/USA
*M & Models/USA, *
Zed Hobbies/Australia, *AB &S Enterprise/Australia, *Desert Miniature/USA. 

I would like to thank Lifelike Decals for providing me with this product sample.

Steve

      

Photos and text © by Steve Bamford