Reini78 16,245 Posted July 10, 2017 Share Posted July 10, 2017 #14/2017 And my dad finished another one, the first of some upcoming IIAF stuff. Used the "M" version of the great Tamiya kit. Wanted to use Tigerhead Decals, forget it. Except the tricolor decal for the rudder all other ones are undersized and the underwing numbers are missing too. My dad painted the rudder and the roundels. The latter ones didn´t come out perfect but look ok. They should even be slightly bigger but my dad had no bigger ring masks. Vallejo Metal Color Aluminium used for painting. After WW2 the Iranians received 50 (some sources say 60) F-47D-30 (some sources also say D-28) from the USA. They served from 1948 to 1959 and were replaced by the F-84 and F-86. 26 Link to post Share on other sites
airbus320 1,143 Posted July 10, 2017 Share Posted July 10, 2017 Well that's certainly a scheme you don't see every day! Really suits the Thunderbolt. Beautiful job! Chris 2 Link to post Share on other sites
DennisTheBear 630 Posted July 10, 2017 Share Posted July 10, 2017 Your "look ok" is equal to my "brilliant"! That is a beautiful looking plane, well painted, great (and different) markings. DennisTheBear 1 Link to post Share on other sites
Drift 233 Posted July 10, 2017 Share Posted July 10, 2017 Another stunning build. The weathering is perfect. 1 Link to post Share on other sites
matteo44 556 Posted July 10, 2017 Share Posted July 10, 2017 Very good job!! 1 Link to post Share on other sites
Roman Schilhart 6,169 Posted July 10, 2017 Share Posted July 10, 2017 Very unusual color scheme - thought it was Italian on first glimpse ... Exotic "Jug"! 1 Link to post Share on other sites
tausugAir 82 Posted July 10, 2017 Share Posted July 10, 2017 A refreshing markings. . a excellent workmanship... 1 Link to post Share on other sites
russ c 10,393 Posted July 10, 2017 Share Posted July 10, 2017 Great looking Thunderbolt there Reini, unusual scheme too Link to post Share on other sites
Reini78 16,245 Posted July 11, 2017 Author Share Posted July 11, 2017 On 10.7.2017 at 11:04 AM, DennisTheBear said: Your "look ok" is equal to my "brilliant"! That is a beautiful looking plane, well painted, great (and different) markings. DennisTheBear you don´t see it on the pics I´ve taken but the roundels on the wings show partly some "orange skin", thats because my dad needed several mask and paint attempts to get the roundels right Link to post Share on other sites
Reini78 16,245 Posted July 12, 2017 Author Share Posted July 12, 2017 On 10.07.2017 at 1:28 PM, Roman Schilhart said: Very unusual color scheme - thought it was Italian on first glimpse ... Exotic "Jug"! Some decades earlier it could have been. Besides the red-white-green roundels, in WW1 the Italians also had sometimes green-white-red ones. Link to post Share on other sites
Blitz23 1,066 Posted July 12, 2017 Share Posted July 12, 2017 Awesome scheme, lovely build! 1 Link to post Share on other sites
pervis 20 Posted August 1, 2017 Share Posted August 1, 2017 wow !!! excellent 1 Link to post Share on other sites
stevej60 37,823 Posted August 1, 2017 Share Posted August 1, 2017 A real stunner and what a great scheme too! 1 Link to post Share on other sites
F-32 4,703 Posted August 3, 2017 Share Posted August 3, 2017 That's absolutely corking work! 1 Link to post Share on other sites
Hamiltonian 1,067 Posted August 5, 2017 Share Posted August 5, 2017 Beautifully done, intriguing scheme. What did you use for the metallic finish? (Self-interest here, because I have a metallic RAF Thunderbolt planned for the future.) 1 Link to post Share on other sites
Reini78 16,245 Posted August 5, 2017 Author Share Posted August 5, 2017 4 hours ago, Hamiltonian said: Beautifully done, intriguing scheme. What did you use for the metallic finish? (Self-interest here, because I have a metallic RAF Thunderbolt planned for the future.) thanks! it was Aluminium from the Vallejo Metal Color line, like with all "metal" paints you need some practice to achieve a consistent surface but then you get a nice end result you can search here under Ready for Inspection for "Suez Crisis", last year I posted an Israeli Meteor built by my dad where he used a Vallejo Metal Color paint too Cheers, Reinhard 1 Link to post Share on other sites
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