Lightningboy2000

Great minds think alike! Funny how we both go for similar things. I bet there's a reason for choosing that particular airframe?

Here's a bit of afterfettling with the Trumpeter F-100 recess & airbrake. Edit, ignore where the scalpel blade slipped! I'll make that disappear soon!

Cheers Frank! That all sound familiar with wot I did. Skinning a cat differntly so to speak. I read your post regarding your build, but couldn't see the pictures.

Many thanks! I was going to thin it with a dremel sanding tool but will go with the Trumpeter item which is the same size. Photos to follow.

Thanks for looking in! Something different for a change. Interesting the size comparison next to the associated fighter jets. Not a big aircraft.

A bit of a rare occurence for me, I'm doing a build thread again! Haven't seen many of these built on here & I've wanted to do one of these for a while which will fit in with my collection of USAFE cold war fighter jets. Especially more so since there's a couple of 20th FW jets already built. The box top... The decals... The one I'll be going for... Without even looking at the advice & builds on here I got cracking on it Wednesday afternoon just gone. I initially went with the multi part cockpit option but found that after loads of dry fitting it struggled to fit with the fuselage halves going together. So I went for the single piece tub offering which actually fit. The only problem after that was the fuselage under the cockpit wouldn't meet together. I checked the fit of the forward part of the underwing & this proved correct, which meant I had to glue in a strip of plastic. And dry fitting of the rear end of the under wing to the fuselage looked excellent. After attaching the instrument panel & control yokes I got painting. I went with an approximation of the sheepskin covered seats. After inserting lead strip & blutac into the extreme nose forward of the cockpit tub, I got the fuselage glued up. Pretty good so far. Also I noted that the option I'm going for only had two windows eah side, so the middle windows will be filled & sanded smooth. For a short run kit like this, it's actually fitting together OK. The pylons for engines were pushed through from the inside of the fuselage halves. The fit was perfect, plus Sword has made a scribed line in the pylons so you can see how far you have to push them through to line them up correctly with the fuselage side. Just some extra thin glue on the inside, no filler. I'll sand off that seam line later. In fact I will paint up & attach the engines last thing. All the panel lines actually had my slight deepening treatment with my olfa blade. Something I personally find is needed with these Sword kits. In places the panel lines are very shallow. If they're there why not have them on display when it's painted up. Now, after seeing photos of 62-4462 all images show the airbrake in the lowered position - parked. The madness in me decided it had to be done, so... Voila! Removed it pretty well I don't say so myself! Conveniently enough there's an option in the Trumpeter 1/72 F-100F for the airbrake well that will fit this exactly! That's it so far until the next time I manage to get some modelling in.

That's definitely in mother's collection so occasionally I get to hear stuff like that.

Some more synthy stuff from me. I am still making models just in case anyone wondered. And something else with a similar feel. I will be starting a build thread in the aircraft section very soon.

There has been a few car adverts recently that have used some choice pieces of music. I'm wondering if it's the same person from a particular ad agency & a certain taste in music that's gone with this one. I instantly recognised it, but it's also an odd one to go for as it was just the opening track on Alphaville's Forever Young album. As used in the current Polestar ads.

Celebrating 40 years to the day when Propaganda released their album A Secret Wish.

And here's something different by the same people as above. They went by different names such as Reload, Global Communication & The Jedi Knights.

For anyone who likes Tangerine Dream, this is from probably one of the best ambient albums of the 90's by Global Communication Mark Pritchard & Tom Middleton.

I thought I'd also share this as I'm on an ambient streak. Maybe someone has heard of electronic artist Mark Van Hoen who went by the name of Locust. This is a full on sample fest of Karen Carpenter which I've always liked & works pretty well.

I don't know why it is but this always makes me think of July, very hot weather, crop circles & festivals. Not the expensive Glasto variety though. I was thinking of the free festivals that kept springing up around the countryside before the CJB came into effect. According to Wiki, this came out July 6th in 1992 & the album went straight to No.1 in the charts. Pretty impressive considering the other mainstream dross at the time. I also did some research & the weather for July 1992 looked pretty dire!

Superb! Amazing detail for the scale!