[🇫🇷 Faded French F-100]

Realised the Modeldecal sheet covers 52736 as 11-RO of EC3/11 in Metropolitan France when camouflaged and there is nice picture of her from 50 years ago at an open day on multiple websites (all the same image). So alongside progress on F-104G in Bay Boomers I have started:

• Bang seat
• Cockpit
• Packing out most of the pylon pre-cuts in wings with styrene strip because the phots just shows drop tanks.

Chris

 

[Dirty Dane]

Masked for the fibreglass (?) areas top and bottom, multiple coats; inevitable (for me) leakage requiring clean up.

 

Chris

 

 

[Hasegawa Tornado IDS `Marineflieger´]

@stevehnz nice scheme, are you going for the anti-ship missile load out? 
 

Chris

[Barrelling Boomer- SAAB J29F Tunnan, Tarangus 1/72]

8 minutes ago, Karearea said:

metal!’ rather than ‘sparkly plastic!’

Loving the word image. Both coats looked very smooth in the photos. I shy away from NMF. 
 

Chris

[Romanian Air Force - 1/48 MiG-21 LanceR & F-16AM, with a little twist.]

@Marlin getting slightly warmer but I'd wrap up; York (York) weather - Met Office has temperatures just about reaching double figures.

 

Chris

 

 

[Fast jets in Greece]

On 18/04/2024 at 08:17, stevehnz said:

Brilliant. Thanks Shaun. There is not one there I wouldn't like to model but the Phantoms were an especial treat.

This one really set my heart racing.

Steve.

me too, just as well making an AUP Rhino at 1/72 isn't easy.  😀 But the bleached or dirty vipers appeal most. Thanks @Seamus

 

Chris

[Fast jets in Greece]

On 18/04/2024 at 07:49, Marlin said:

Fantastic picture

Now I want to build me some Greek F-16's 

Thanks for sharing them @Seamus Shaun. 

 

/Bosse

Bosse,

 

Good RoAF images for your NATO GB build.

 

Chris

[Dirty Dane]

And another thin coat, a bit of different shade on the tip tank, as per real life image, and the main colour is done.

 

Chris

 

[Dirty Dane]

Under-fuselage pylons added. Panel line painting done.

 

 

And three very then coats of lightened main colour done. Needs some touch-up and blending in.

 

Chris

 

 

 

[ESCI 1/72 F-100D Super Sabre (Danish Air Force)]

On 11/02/2024 at 14:43, srkirad said:

One of them is kit from the subject - ESCI 1/72 F-100D Super Sabre, which I plan to finish as Danish G-279, but probably as heavily weathered one, in spite of G-279 actually been very glossy and shiny Dark Green one.

 

Srđan

 

srkirad are you sure this airframe wasn’t in the fading green? This wiki image is from 1973 which I understand is a long time before the glossy green. Just started a Hun myself.   Chris

 

[Spitfire XIV, Belgische Militaire Luchtvaart]

Craig that’s very neatly done and an attractive scheme that suits the Spitfire. 
 

Chris

[Romanian Air Force - 1/48 MiG-21 LanceR & F-16AM, with a little twist.]

I do love the RoAF unique Viper scheme, it is on my very log to-do list. That loadout sounds more like an airshow thing, the many pictures of them on BAP show 2 + 2 missiles, and a nice touch of the flag folded and tucked in front of the HUD, and weathering ofc.

 

Nice Easter weekend pictures, I envy the temperature, the north of England wasn't anything like that warm. 

 

Chris

[Dirty Dane]

And more assembly sneaked in around family things; tip tanks and tail.

 

Chris

 

[Dutch Starfighter]

That turned out very very well. 
 

Chris

[NATO 75 Years GB Chat]

34 minutes ago, Mr_Sworld said:

I'm going to join this as my first GB. I've got a dodgy Hasagawa 1/72 A-10A in the stash and a Check Six Spangdahlem Air Base decals set in the post.

 

I'd add a US Flag as an emoji but the forum doesn't give that as an option (how does one add the flag for the GB?) I might even use this as an excuse to start buying MRP paint as I can crack open the window and stick the extraction booth hose outside again.

Flags in the title depend on how you access the forum. On my phone and  iPad it just comes up as an option when you type. United States 🇺🇸 

 

Chris

[Dirty Dane]

Between family things I got the wings and main wheel doors on on after getting the front/rear fuselage joints flush.

 

Chris

 

[NATO GB Inspiration Gallery]

Seeing as there a lot of F-16s in this GB here is the only Viper I have ever built. 1/72 Hasegawa, Oregon ANG, F-16 STGB 2021.

 

Chris

 

[🇫🇷 Faded French F-100]

So I got the French flag and looked in the stash for what would suit and found this kit and these decals; both give me an option of a camouflaged Hun from Djibouti; which fits the GB, but I would rather do one from Metropolitan France if I can fiddle the decals. I am not keen on NMF and the French NMF look doesn't appeal.

 

Chris

 

[NATO GB Inspiration Gallery]

All 1/72

 

Hasegawa F-104S ASA-M 9th Stormo AMI - KUTA 2023

 

 

Fujimi F-4K RAF 43 Sqn 1986 - KUTA 2023

 

 

Kinetic MQ-9 Texas ANG 147 ATKW - Reconnaissance and Scouting GB

 

 

Italeri CF-116A RCAF 434 Sqn 1983 - Northrop F-5 STGB

 

[Dirty Dane]

Fuselage all together now. I painted the canopy framing before fitting which gives a chance to check on any errors more easily, At the same time I made a start on the less faded panel lines from photos, and trialled a bit of lightened finished colour on the tail; the contrast is not as obvious in the photo as in real life. Some filling and filing on the front/rear join then the wings and tip-tanks.

 

Chris

 

[Zouki Mura 1:48 F4E Phantom]

Nice rhino, particularly love the dirty underside. 
 

Chris

[Most beautiful fighter ever built?]

Can't beat a jet with a pointy nose: F-104, particularly a late F-104S ASA-M in pale grey.

 

Chris

[Hawker Hunter F.6A - No. 1 TWU - Revell - 1/72]

Scarily good model and brings back memories of passing (loitering around outside) RAF Brawdy and seeing 1TWU hunters, as I recollect the taxiway was very close to the fenceline.  

 

Chris

[F-104 S Italian Air Force]

Lovely model, great to follow it coming together. 
 

Chris

[Dirty Dane]

And front fuselage all assembled, slowly, from experience of previous builds the fit of the intakes is imprecise and not much mating surface so I've gone one piece at a time and left to set solid. Last couple of builds I have left a lot of the seam clean-up until everything was together but I've recognised that apart from the blade aerial on the underside this front fuselage is robust so I'll get this all sorted out before mating with the rear. (Except for the pitot which will be toward the end as on this plane the because I've got show the radome a solid un-faded colour and different to the rest of the plane.) Gone for green and khaki cover to the IP which seems typical of a G, unlike the light grey of the S. Freehand painting of the anti icing black paint wasn't as good as I'd hoped but I'll be masking off anyway for the faded green body colour.

 

Chris