The latest - and last addition to my collection of 1/72 scale F-89 Scorpions - the Hobbycraft kit of the F-89H.....
I wanted to show the GAR-1 Falcon missiles both retracted and extended - so I did the port pod with them deployed ready for firing, and the starboard side all closed up.
I know they wouldn't be like that in real life - they are deployed symetrically on each side - but I am claiming 'artistic licence' - it is on display at an airshow and the extending mechanism has be overridden by the display crew.
The 'clean' starboard pod for comparison - note the apertures for the FFAR rockets in the nose of the pod.
Closer view of the port pod - the Flacon missiles are dummies - hence the light blue colour.
I could not get the US Star-and-bar to sit centrally inside the silver outline decal - either the star lined up - or the bars did - but not both!
I had to cut the kit decals to go round the missile bays.
Each pod could carry 3 X GAR-1 Falcon missiles - plus 21 X FFAR rockets.
F-89H Scorpion of the 437th FIS, Presque Isle AFB circa 1958.
Scorpion - ready to strike!
My complete Scorpion collection.
Ken