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Help with P-47
DougMauserFa
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Posted: Thursday, April 22, 2004 - 03:24 PM UTC
I'm building a 1/48th scale P-47 and need to know how wide the D-day invasion stripes are on the wing and fuselage in.

Any help would be great.

Thanks, Doug
USArmy2534
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Posted: Friday, April 23, 2004 - 01:06 AM UTC
I'm not sure of the size, but if you got reference pictures and find where it ended, just divide the space up accordingly.
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Posted: Friday, April 23, 2004 - 08:13 AM UTC
The invasion stripes on Fighters were 18" wide, 2 black, 3 white. For scale stripes you need to do a little scaling. First of all you require the decimal fraction, for 1/48 that is 0.0208. Now multiply the measurement by this ie 18x0.0208 = 0.3744 inch (9.36mm)
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DougMauserFa
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Posted: Friday, April 23, 2004 - 12:49 PM UTC
Thanks alot for the help guys.
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