Started with some fuel tanks and the wings. Dropped the flaps on one of em.
Then on the the pits…
Wow! The cockpits look great even blown up. Seeing that the cockpit is thumb size reminds me of why us old people build 1/48. LOL. Looks good Fermis, keep up the good work.
Max
PS–I always liked Thuds, big, fast and Beasty I guess is the word.
Hello!
I’ll be watching this one - I still have to build my Wild Weasel some day! Lookin’ good so far - thanks for sharing and good luck with your project, have a nice day
Paweł
A great start. Wondering why there two of them. Will they be the same markings?
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I tend to build in pairs…or even 3’s and 4’s. They’ll have different markings…but will be pretty much the same, otherwise. I find working on multiples only adds a small amount of time, compaired to just building one, then the other. While something is drying on one, work on the other. It’s just how I roll! Also got a pair of Mig-15s on the go, as well as a lonely Hawkeye.
Did it plant a S.E.A.D. in your mind?
Nice…
Very nice…
As always sir, an excellent start, I’ll be following as usual!
Toshi
Here’s a couple shots of the 17th Wild Weasels at Korat:
The one in the background is from the 17th, but for some reason it never wore the JB tail code, just 444 in a non-standard type style. It was kept this way for my whole tour.
Cool…I dig the open gun-bay shot in particular…
Looking forward to these babies.
[dto:]
I remembering them at the waiting point by the final check point. waiting for their turn to take off. When they moved onto the runway and hit their afterburner, the 5 inch thick concrete protective wall next to me would vibrate, and I was more than 100 yards away. They were amazing to watch. But then so were the Connies and all the other types we had at the time.
What engine was in this thing?
Haven’t gotten very far, for the time that has past…but it’s better than nothin!
Trumpy has the position of the exhaust nozzle way too deep (bottom), it should be almost half an inch further back (top)
There is just a little detail in the nose gear bay…not even close to all the plumbing that’s going on in the real deal…
Wow, you must have some good refs for this thing!!!
She had a P&W J-75 with water injection. Like the F-106, you could hear that hard light all over the base.
Just have the Squadron “walk around” book. I bought a few kits off a guy, including the 1/48 Monogram 105…he included ref books with every kit I bought from him…hell of a nice surprise! Even got a couple Pilots manuals for the actual aircraft as well! (not the 105 though)
The Vietnam war was the absolute end of its useful service. It really wasn’t a match for the Mig-21. Trips up north in the thing had a scary shoot down rate.
No wonder Olds used the Phantom II in Operation Bolo.