Hi Oistein,

I consider my plane a sport scale project, so I didn't go all out on the scale documentation. I do not have a lot of references for this particular plane. There is one colour photo in the Detail and Scale book by Bert Kinzey, published by Squardron/Signal, on the P-47. I shows an extremely weathered plane, with lots of paint flaking off, esepcially on the tail surfaces. The plane's original olive drab finish appears to be partly overpainted with other colours of green, particularly the d-day stripes on the wing and fuse tops. Whether they used a darker green, like the colour used on Spitfires, is hard to say. Certainly some in the 'Wolfpack' did. The original plane also had a natural metal canopy frame.

The other reference is in P-47 Thunderbolt Special published by Flight Journal. I shows a restored aircraft in the darker British green. According to the text the plane was flow by Lt. Marvin H. Becker of the 63rd fighter squadron. Between March and June 1944 Becker scored 2.75 kills.

Flight Journal has a website at www.flightjournal.com.

Good luck,

Paul