First up, a Pro Modeler F-84G, 8th FBSq, 49th FBGp, Kusan, Korea, 1953. Everything on the build is painted except the national insignia. The NMF is AK Duraluminum. The squadron markings are Tamiya Flat Yellow and NATO Black. The build is OOB. These Pro Modeler kits are really nice and very detailed. I have a Pro Modeler Saber Dog waiting in the wings, as it were.
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Next up a Revell F-100D, 8th TFW, Itazuki, Japan, early 1960’s. On this one the only painted marking are the USAF and the buzz number, everything else is Aero Master decals. Anyone who has built this kit knows that it doesn’t just fall together. The NMF is again AK Duraluminum with NATO Black for the USAF and buzz number. The rear of the fuselage is AK Pale Burnt Metal with some NATO Black and Tamiya Flat Blue to show scorching.
That is a beautiful pair of fast movers Frank! Bravo! [Y][Y] I really love those markings on the F-84. Did you get pre made masks for the painted markings or make your own? In either case, it’s very impressive work.
Stik, the black and yellow squadron markings were all done with Tamiya tape trimmed to width with an Infini Easy Cutting board. The USAF and the buzz number were done with stencils made on a Sillouette Portrait cutting machine. The only reason the national insignia weren’t painted is because I’m stilll trying to figure out how to register three colors correctly with stencils.
One of these days I’m going to figure out how to do things like the chevrons on the nose of the F-100.
WOW! Great builds especially the metal discoloration on the F-100. Just goes to show you that in the hands of a true craftsman an old Monogram or a Revell kit can be turned into a gem.
Thanks, everyone. Two builds that are now done and I’m glad. Especially the Revell/Monogram F-100. A pretty difficult build, trying to preserve raised detail. Sandwiching the wings between the upper and lower fuselage halves and then trying to hide the seam line wasn’t easy. Hoo boy.
It’s just the way the fuselage halves go together to trap the wings in place. Even with raised detail, this kit is still the most accurate F-100 available in 1/48.
love the F-84! I had intended to do one years ago after reading a book (forget the title) by a now famous author, whose name I forget- aging problem. Anyway, he wrote Johnathon Livingston Seagull.
There is still time- this thread may be the boost I need.
Loverly! I tend to build models of ships and aircraft that I’ve had some experience with, so I suppose an F-100 is one I could consider. Sometime around 1959 or 1960, aviation enthusiasts in my small home town of Silver City, New Mexico decided to have an air show. It wasn’t much of a show. I don’t even remember any notable aircraft on display, but I was looking forward to an advertised fly past by an F-100 from Biggs AFB in nearby El Paso.
I was looking at the display at a USAF booth when suddenly the world “ended” with a boom. By the time I “recovered” from the surprise and rushed out away from the booth to see what had happened, the F-100 was climbing away — thunderously — from the airport. But the “fly past” wasn’t over.
The F-100 returned in a couple of minutes, but that time the pilot had lowered his landing gear and just crawled past the crowd of perhaps 100 people at no more than 50 feet altitude. He tucked up his wheels, put the pedal to the floor, and climbed away to begin one more circuit. It was spectacular. He came back to the airport “on the deck,” well over Mach 1. He must have covered the length of the airport’s one runway in about three seconds, pulled up in a vertical climb, afterburner blasting, and just disappeared in the deep blue sky. Wow!
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