I’m almost ready to start the -102. I received some NASA decals fundekals but I ordered a PE set from Eduard last night, so It will be a little while before it gets to me.
NASA, eh? Great idea…nice and different. Love it
Started both kits today starting with the cockpits.
Here is the F-104 cockpit. No detail at all.
Painted the pilot for the f-104. I normally dont use aircrew in my builds, but this kit will need some help with the cockpit to liven it up. I still have to weather him to get him to look right.
Here is the pilot for the F-106 all painted up with a basecoat of light gray, painted with the Tamiya transparent orange for the flight suit in layers to build up color and shadows. The rest is done with normal Tamiya acrylics. Just needs to be dullcoated once the paint cures.
I’ll have to buy one in 1/72 later down the road then it seems as further searches turned up nothing for the 1/48 reveal kit.
B_one: Both those pilots are looking very nice, I broke out the 106 today as well, I’ve gotten relatively far and will continue working on it tonight so I’ll hold off on the progress pics.
I’ve got most of the cockpit done, but only thing completely done is the IP so here’s that…
I’ve got the weapons and fuel tanks put together as well…
When doing some research I found out that all four of the AIM-4’s are NOT the same. The F-106 carried 2 AIM-4F’s in the front and 2 AIM-4G’s in the back flanking the Genie…the difference being the G’s were IR-guided and have different “tips” as seen in this picture.
I also have the fuselage halves together…
For all the other ones building an F-106 I’ve found this website, I suggest taking a gander at it…some interesting things on it for sure.
Lots of great work going on here, great job guys. I’m throwing in my entry that I picked up a while back on Ebay as a package deal along with an F-100, an F-102 and a 106. They came out to about $18 each including the shipping. I also have another one I picked up at Hobby Lobby with a 40% coupon for a little over $12.
Started cleaning up the seats and cockpit parts and are ready for painting. The seats have real nice molded details as the rest of the cockpit. They will paint up very nice.
Josiah…for my 106, I am going to be forced into using 4 x Falcon G’s. The kit come with 4 x rather ‘not good’ versions, so, I will be using G’s from my Hasegawa Aircraft Weapons set. The set has G’s and D’s, but, I can’t find (in your excellent reference, thanks!!) any evidence that the One-Oh-Sixes used the C model. So, I’m forced to use 4 G’s. Seems that the 102 used the D.
Plasticj…that big Voodoo’s gonna be awesome. You gonna go with what’s in the box for painting/marking or hold out for something AM? I did my Voodoo earlier this year in a rare RCAF early appearance in NM. Very cool to see a Voodoo in NM.
Rob
I actually have decals in the other Voodoo box for a NM one that I want to do with Alaclad paints and this one will be mostly OOB since the molding detail is so good. The included decals look to be of good quality.
Wow are those bangseats for the Monogram in the kit!? ALmost rivals some resin stuff, much better than most kit seats I have seen.
Theuns
This was my NM RCAF Voodoo from earlier this year. This was Revell Germany’s big Voodoo release last year which was just a scaled down 1/48 (great kit, I must say). This is a great example that Canada DID actually employ nuclear weapons (despite what MOST think). You can see the Genies slung underneath. I did it with Tamiya bare metal mostly because it’s 1/72 and I’ve never been brave enough to try Alcad stuff yet (and I can’t get the products easily). I’m wanting to try Alcad on a big bird, say a 1/32 104 perhaps.
Got a start on my F-106 today. Pretty much done with the spartan office area. Without that Verlinden seat, I would’ve not bothered to show this step. But, when it’s all sealed into that one piece canopy, it should be ok:
Theuns
Yes they are in the kit. They come in 3 parts but lots of molded details.
Rob
Never would have guessed it to be 1/72 scale. Beautiful job dude!
Tks, that seat’s about 3/4" tall…but, very detailed resin. Kind of a waste to put it in this ‘ahem’ questionable cockpit, but, it’s been sitting in my spares box for years.
Wow, nice job on such a small seat!
Beautiful job! Yeah I’m pretty impressed with Revell’s molded details…the F-106’s seat is just as good and the wheel well’s and missile bay is gorgeous.
Damn those are some good looking cockpits and seats!
I have started painting my 104’s cockpit / seat, but it is no where as well detailed, I am planing to leave the canopy closed anyway as for my an open canopy on a 1/4 looks just wrong LOL
I used the kit supplied decals for the pannel and the side consoles, a good amount of microsol let them form over the raised detail well.
Pix to follow.
Keep up the good work.
Theuns
PS. I might be offline for a few days, my PC needs to be overhauled it is so slow!
Right on Theuns…lookin’ forward to those pics!
Can’t wait to see them theuns, hope your computer gets faster soon.
In other news, I’ve got the cockpit done…
Right on yg…your 106 look WAY better than my 1:72 Hasegawa. Good start and have a good time on that weapons bay!!
Theuns…I’m DONE with my Hasegawa 106, please strike it off the list and mark ‘pending’. It’s gone. I can’t work with this thing, the quality is so bad that I’m disgusted to carry on with it. So, I am going to try to get a F-105 (Trumpy) or the Meng 102 in a few weeks when I’m in Toronto. Sorry guys…not relaxing, stressful, so it’s gone…[bnghead]