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Mushroom Model Publications |
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Republic P-47 Thunderbolt "Bubbletop" |
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by Robert Peczkowski |
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Reviewed By Kirk Ballash, #22433 |
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MSRP: £9.99 GBP Mail order: £11.00 GBP - UK/Europe £12.50 GBP - elsewhere website: mmpbooks.biz In the summer of 1943 engineers at the Republic Farmingdale plant looked to address a major complaint from Thunderbolt pilots, the problem of rearward visibility. Two airframes were converted to the cut down deck and bubble canopy version that eventually became the late model P-47s. This book deals with those models, beginning with the P-47D-25-RE and ending with the P-47Ns. I’ve always been impressed by the Mushroom Model Magazine books and this latest one on the P-47 Bubble canopy variants is no exception. This Yellow Series edition is in their usual 6.25” x 9.25” format and has 128 pages with sections dedicated to development, technical descriptions, foreign users, production runs, a list of P-47 aces and over 60 pages of detail photos. The detail pictures feature a dozen different P-47 models from around the world, and as usual the detail pictures are crisp, clear and taken with the modeler in mind. Also very useful to the modeler is the development and technical description chapters that include specific detail differences between each of the production block numbers as well as 1/72 scale drawings of the aircraft, the props and even under wing armament. Many black and white period photos accompany the technical descriptions. Finishing off the book are 26 pages of color profiles including many of the post war users such as Taiwan, Yugoslavia, Turkey and Ecuador. Details photographs, line drawings and color profiles - especially of the hard to find foreign air forces – makes this a highly recommended book for any P-47 enthusiast. This book has a list price of $22.95 and I feel is well worth it, but I’m certain it can be found for less by looking around. Even at list price I believe that dollar for dollar this is the best value publication on the bubble canopy versions of the Republic P-47 Thunderbolt. |
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