Here are some photos of my 1/72 Italeri C-47. My model wears Czechoslovak Air Force markings from the post-war era. This plane served with Dopravní letecký pluk (Air Transport Regiment) in Prague-Kbely Airbase. There were at least 25 C-47 in total in the Czechoslovak Air Force during 1945-1960.

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The Italeri kit contains no less than 70 plastic parts from dark green plastic, one sprue with clear parts, instructions and D-Day marking decals for RAF and USAAF. The construction is quite pleasurable, I had problems only with the engine cowlings, where I needed extra amount of putty and the front glass which I broke and had to do new one. The kit is built mostly OOB, I only added and changed some antennas position, drilled exhausts and adjusted air intakes. 

I used Agama authentic colours C14 dark green and C15 light blue for painting. The decals are not from the kit I bought Tally Ho! "C-47 Dakota/Skytrain part II." decal sheet and chose the Czechoslovak Air Force variant.  The white colour on the decals is too transparent, so I helped myself with white Modelmaster color. I hadn’t a clear photograph proof about white on wingtips and bottom of the nose, which is recommended in Tally Ho! Instruction, therefore I didn’t paint it.

Recommended sources:

Týc P.: DC-3/Dakota/C-47 a Československo. Svět křídel, 1999.

Davis, L.: C-47 Skytrain in action. Squadron/Signal Publications, 1995.

Tally Ho! decals:      www.tallyho.cz

Agama colours:          http://www.agama-model.cz/pracujese/ces.htm

Michal