Borgao

Hi all. Here is my Academy F-84G in Portuguese colors.

Hello Pete. Beautiful build of a past little true Workhorse of the Portuguese Air force in the African conflits. Have that one in my stash too. Here are some more photos of portuguese planes in Africa (incluiding Do-27´s) for more inspiration. https://photos.google.com/share/AF1QipPPYibjKT9C6tYCvbMVJD55zEjRvhkGv4IcGgnYdKA6IHRJdq7LDAY5MxvUuJOumQ?key=emNkYllqVVZHTDluSHAxYnhwLUpWU09xdUtoV1ln Cheers!! FB.

Beautiful build!!!...👌Used to fly alot in TAP Air Portugal´s 707 when i was a kid. Cheers from 🇵🇹🇵🇹

Hello Tweener Very nice to see your build of a Portuguese Texan. Portuguese crosses on the upper left wing and under the right wing. On the opposite wing put the portuguese serial number. Here is a link to portuguese AF airplanes ,mostly in the africa during the wars. https://photos.google.com/share/AF1QipPPYibjKT9C6tYCvbMVJD55zEjRvhkGv4IcGgnYdKA6IHRJdq7LDAY5MxvUuJOumQ?key=emNkYllqVVZHTDluSHAxYnhwLUpWU09xdUtoV1ln Scroll down to find many Texan photos Cheers and have fun.

Very nice build..congratulations👌. Have that one in the stash...to be build in portuguese colors 🙂 Regards.

Hello Roman. Sorry for the late response. It is dificult to find decals of the portuguese AF in africa, because most are out of production or the companys that produce them are out of business. You can try this shop. it still has some from SantaCruz Decals: https://www.marsigor.pt/product-category/decalques/santa-cruz-modelismo/ Be careful because many are 1/72 regards FBorges

Beuatiful build Congratulations FBorges

thank you all for your nice comments regards FBorges

Hello Tiger thanks for your comment Here are great photos from FAP in Africa.. Enjoy😊 https://photos.google.com/share/AF1QipPPYibjKT9C6tYCvbMVJD55zEjRvhkGv4IcGgnYdKA6IHRJdq7LDAY5MxvUuJOumQ?key=emNkYllqVVZHTDluSHAxYnhwLUpWU09xdUtoV1ln Regards FBorges

Hello steve. Thank you for your comment It´s not a book but an article from the Portuguese Air Force magazine "Mais Alto" (Higher) and i am a subscriter. Recently two lovely books came out about the African wars. One is about the history of the Helicopter Squadrons and the other is called "The Air Force at the end of the Empire", both tell the history and storys of the air force in the Colonial Wars. i dont know if they will be translated to english,.... but if they do dont miss.... regards FB

beautiful build Congrats Regards FB

Hi Beautiful build...Congrats Witch metalizer did you use? regards FB

Hello All When hostilities broke out in northen Angola in 1961, the word was out - "...To Angola, Quickly and in Force...". Portugal was determined to maintain the Empire at all cost using all the tools it had...and the F-84G thunderjet was one of those tools. By the end of the fifties the Thunderjet was already obselete ,and was prepared to be phased-out of the Portuguese Air Force,but was called for one last mission, Defend our Proviencies in Africa. After Portugal was able to buy brand new J35 engines to give them new live ,the first 12 Thunderjets were prepared and sent to Air Base 9 (BA9) Luanda, Angola where they formed 93rd Squadron "Magníficos" under the leadership of Major Costa Gomes. Their primary mission were CAP´s, Air support to ground forces and protect citys and towns from guerrilas threats. Because of the UN arms embargo (The guerrilas had unlimited acess to armament from the Soviet Union,China,Cuba and most eastern Europe countries...thank you UN) that prevented Portugal to buy new equipment, these jets had to endure the 13 year long war but atrittion was high due to accidents and structural fadigue ,also because of this many had their tip tanks replaced with surplus T-33´s ones. In all 25 of these jet served in Africa and the last one to retire was "5203" on October 14,1975 to be the last operational F-84G of the world. Enough of History and on to the photos , Here is my African Thunderjet built from the beautifull Tamiya kit, Used the Eduard´s zoom set and painted with Alclads metalizers. Tip tanks came from Hasegawa T-33 kit e decals from various sources. Enjoy and best regards. FBorges.

Hello all. thank you for all your kind comments...... have very few WIP photos, didn´t post any.. here is a bonus.. Regards FBorges

Stay tuned.....you may be surprised😉☺️☺️

Hello All It has been a while since i post here something, so here it is..my recently finished F-84G Thunderjet of the Portuguese Air Force 1953 of the first 25 received via MDAP These Thunderjets formed the 20 squadron ,the first equipped with Jets..and many of them ended their lives fighting in Africa....but thats another story.🙂 It´s the Academy 1/72 kit painted with AK´s extreme metal ,used eduard´s photoetch and decals from various sources. Enjoy, regards from Portugal FBorges

Beautiful paint work.....

Yeah...maybe,but we live in the age of information....almost impossible to hide. TAP is to receive 4 A330 from Air Singapure to substitute the aging A340´s...One have arrived yesterday at Lisbon,CSTOU.In the next weeks or months will arrive the others 2 will be in regular livery, one in this beautifull retro livery and the last with especial livery...but that one i will not show..but is very beautifull with portuguese tradition. Regards FBorges

Beautifull model....congrats. Just a sneak peek of whats coming to TAP in the near future. Get your models ready......

Hello all Haven´t done much modeling lately but stll manage to finish this 109 in Galland´s colors. Last year I bought AK´s Luftwaffes camouflge color sets and wanted to try them out and a had an old 1/48 hasegawa 109E kit in my stash for ages (not my scale),so i give them a go and here is the result: Also used some items from the Eduard photoetch an decals came from a techmod sheet because the kits decals were to yellow and broke apart in the water. Nose yellow is humbrol 154 and True Details tyres. Really liked AK´s paints. Enjoy the photos. Hope you like it!! Regards FBorges

Great looking Komet. Really nice.

Veeeeery goood

AAhh...this time can see. Nice corsairs... WWII one is the new molds? regards FBorges

Hello Ignacio Very good your hun Like the intake duct you made. Regards from Portugal. FBorges

Hello Squadron 751 of Portuguese Air Force won this year The Humanitarian service award from the Helicopter Association International. Great recognition of their importante everyday mission living up to their motto of "So others may Live" We can only be proud of ours "Rays of Hope" Congratulations FAP Best regards FBorges