Borgao Posted October 20, 2018 Share Posted October 20, 2018 (edited) 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. Edited July 15, 2020 by Borgao 56 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
celt Posted October 20, 2018 Share Posted October 20, 2018 Well tidy mun. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kitchen Modeller Posted October 20, 2018 Share Posted October 20, 2018 Very nice - great paint job - great interior work too. I like your base also - did the ground crew forget their ladder? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corsairfoxfouruncle Posted October 20, 2018 Share Posted October 20, 2018 Beautiful Thunderjet ... Thanks for the history. 👍 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rui Silva Posted October 21, 2018 Share Posted October 21, 2018 Mais um excelente F-84, parabéns. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DennisTheBear Posted October 21, 2018 Share Posted October 21, 2018 Very well done! Thanks for the potted history of a little known part of military aviation. DennisTheBear 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stevehnz Posted October 21, 2018 Share Posted October 21, 2018 Lovely Thunderjet indeed. I had no knowledge of their use in Angola, though it makes sense if I'd thought about it, does your book have an English version, I'd love to read more? Steve. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vultures1 Posted October 21, 2018 Share Posted October 21, 2018 Beautiful build, finish and presentation. Interesting history too. Well done! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
F-32 Posted October 22, 2018 Share Posted October 22, 2018 Lovely work 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bearmatt Posted October 22, 2018 Share Posted October 22, 2018 Great modeling and interesting story to it. Thanks for sharing this history lesson. B. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Borgao Posted October 22, 2018 Author Share Posted October 22, 2018 On 10/21/2018 at 10:18 AM, stevehnz said: Lovely Thunderjet indeed. I had no knowledge of their use in Angola, though it makes sense if I'd thought about it, does your book have an English version, I'd love to read more? Steve. 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 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tiger331 Posted October 22, 2018 Share Posted October 22, 2018 GREAT Story and model FB ! I have a particular interest in Post-War Colonial conflicts and have studied some aspects of the FAP involvement in Africa but mainly to help with some forthcoming G-91R3/4 Gina builds.....This story was also very interesting and I really like looking at those atmospheric shots from the period. Thanks for sharing and for producing such a nice and well finished model in unusual markings Well Done, Sir ! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Borgao Posted October 22, 2018 Author Share Posted October 22, 2018 43 minutes ago, Tiger331 said: GREAT Story and model FB ! I have a particular interest in Post-War Colonial conflicts and have studied some aspects of the FAP involvement in Africa but mainly to help with some forthcoming G-91R3/4 Gina builds.....This story was also very interesting and I really like looking at those atmospheric shots from the period. Thanks for sharing and for producing such a nice and well finished model in unusual markings Well Done, Sir ! 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 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Borgao Posted October 24, 2018 Author Share Posted October 24, 2018 thank you all for your nice comments regards FBorges Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BIG X Posted October 24, 2018 Share Posted October 24, 2018 That is a lovely build - with great supporting photographs 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
morini456 Posted July 17, 2019 Share Posted July 17, 2019 (edited) Hello Borgao, Lovely build of subject from a largely ignored, but significant, conflict in 20th century! Recently I got into more depth about the Portuguese colonial wars - even started with the literal "bible" of the conflicts - "Portugal´s guerilla wars in Africa" from Al J. Venter. 🙂 Being more an AFV modeller , I have maybe a silly question. Do you have any suggestions as to 1/48 decals for the jets used in the conflict? Google search for 1/48 decals for the G.91 or F-84 in a proper colonial markings showed zero results.... Thank you and regards, Roman Edited July 17, 2019 by morini456 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NorbertBu Posted July 17, 2019 Share Posted July 17, 2019 (edited) This is really a nice Rollout! The model is great and all the history and Pictures are really useful! Edited July 28, 2019 by NorbertBu 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gary Brantley Posted July 18, 2019 Share Posted July 18, 2019 Sweet build! Great scale model! 🍻 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Josip Posted July 18, 2019 Share Posted July 18, 2019 The Portuguese AF beat Yugoslav AF by a single year. JRV retired it's last F-84s in 1974. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sean1968 Posted July 18, 2019 Share Posted July 18, 2019 Thats a little beauty. Well done. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
petetasker Posted July 18, 2019 Share Posted July 18, 2019 Lovely model very nicely done. Always nice to get a bit of background info for the model as well. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mdauben Posted July 18, 2019 Share Posted July 18, 2019 Really nice work on that model, and I love the back story on your choice of markings. Stuff like that really helps bring the model alive. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Borgao Posted July 30, 2019 Author Share Posted July 30, 2019 On 7/17/2019 at 6:31 PM, morini456 said: Hello Borgao, Lovely build of subject from a largely ignored, but significant, conflict in 20th century! Recently I got into more depth about the Portuguese colonial wars - even started with the literal "bible" of the conflicts - "Portugal´s guerilla wars in Africa" from Al J. Venter. 🙂 Being more an AFV modeller , I have maybe a silly question. Do you have any suggestions as to 1/48 decals for the jets used in the conflict? Google search for 1/48 decals for the G.91 or F-84 in a proper colonial markings showed zero results.... Thank you and regards, Roman 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 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
matti64 Posted July 31, 2019 Share Posted July 31, 2019 Excellent, superb history to accompany . 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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