Mike, actually looks like a closer match than my formula. I’ll try yours next time I get the urge to do a Jug.
Regards, Rick
Thanks guys.
Josh,
I am building it OOB as it is the Tamiya kit and it is pretty darn good the way it sits. I may add a little something here and there but no resin or PE parts.
Rick,
I am glad you liked the color. It looks closer than your formula? Wow, I must have gotten lucky as the French Blue was the only blue I had. [:D]
Actually, I have always had a pretty good eye for seeing the colors in something that I want to reproduce. I guess that was something I learned pretty well when I did T-shirt airbrushing. [;)]
Mike
I just ordered the book, “P-47 Thunderbolt in Detail & Scale” a while ago online so that I can have the photo references while I paint the cockpit, etc. [;)]
Mike
I’ve thumbed through that one at the lhs. I think you’ve made a good choice. There are some really excellent pics in there.
Mike, thats the reference book I scanned the pics from. It’s really an excellent reference. If you are going to model the P-47D, I think this is the one essential reference for the Library. Course I have about a dozen others, but I am a P-47D fan [:)].
Regards, Rick
So, I am really really late for this discussion. And I guess this particular P-47 in this discussion now is collecting dust in a cabinet somwhere but perhaps this can help future builders. 
Yep! There are so many variables.
These planes where often standing out in the sun and thus the colors would change with time.
Different days with diferent people in the factory mixing the colors would also change the color.
Did someone get hurt in the cockpit at any time? Was it a neat ground crew taiking care of the plane and/or did they ever have the time to clean the thing up?
I am about to build the Hasegawa P-47d “Angie” (1:48) and in my research i found this great research regarding this individual plane: http://www.512thfightersquadron.com/l3-o.htm
When one read this it becomes wery clear that theese were war machines and as time wore on the could and would change extencively.
For me it helps to make up a storry in my head. Even with “42-26860 L3-O” in the above link I don’t have all the facts. But I can do some guesses and then make up a storry that makes sence for me (and hopefully others looking at the plane). For me, the storrytelling (even it i don’t do dioramas) is part of the fun.
I read somewhere that the battlefields in the skyes over europe was likend to someone lifting up a achtray and turning it up side down.
PS
Mike! How did it turn out? Pics?