1/72 P-47D Thunderbolt

Description

This is an injection-plastic aircraft model kit.

Hobby Boss is a new company from China that has actually managed to bring out a new concept in model aircraft kits: the “easy assembly” line. Kits in this line are molded in the minimum number of parts needed to produce an acceptably accurate 1/72 scale model. The fuselage is molded as one piece, with the entire wing as a second piece, to which are added the prop, landing gear and other small parts. The kits certainly look like the aircraft they are supposed to represent, and seem (in the box) to be pretty accurate in outline. In terms of overall detail level, we would put them somewhere above the older Hasegawa kits.

This kit has 39 parts, including optional Hamilton-Standard and Curtis Electric propellers, drop tanks and bombs. Markings are for “88/Rabbit” of the 527th FS and “Big Ass Bird II” of the 531st FS. Look at the decals carefully; the numbers on the sheet do not match those on the placement guide! It is pretty obvious which goes where, though.