Silver Fox Posted February 4, 2020 Share Posted February 4, 2020 This one was a Christmas present from Mrs Fox, well I chose it but she paid. I built my first attempt at this kit whilst waiting for my daughter to be born, and she is now 20! It is one of the greats from Revell of that era, along with the F-86D, I think it is better engineered than the similarly aged Tamiya kit. Anyway enough of my wittering. Straight from the box apart from the seat belts. Painted with a series of rattle cans The decals are from my dwindling stock pf Aeromaster/Eagle Strike. this time to represent machine from the 79th FBS, 20th FBW at RAF Weathersfield in 1955. The machine was 51-965 which only survived until it crashed on Belgium on the 1st October 1955, sadly killing the pilot. The greatest worry with the kit is that the nose gear leg is so fine that it isn't strong enough to hold the weight ot the rest of the model. The kit is getting hard to find and it's F-84E cousin has never been released in Europe, I hope the new Revell owners realise what a gem they have in their line up Thanks as always for looking. 21 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gary Brantley Posted February 4, 2020 Share Posted February 4, 2020 Quite nice! 🍻 I'm working on the Revell "E" right now. I'm hoping that I can still use the original kit decals but they are really old so we'll have to find out I guess. I hope my version looks this good! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robert_ Posted February 4, 2020 Share Posted February 4, 2020 Looks great, you’ve done a wonderful job of it. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wulfman Posted February 4, 2020 Share Posted February 4, 2020 Great job on the Thunderjet and the ground stuff. Wulfman 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Silver Fox Posted February 4, 2020 Author Share Posted February 4, 2020 6 hours ago, Gary Brantley said: Quite nice! 🍻 I'm working on the Revell "E" right now. I'm hoping that I can still use the original kit decals but they are really old so we'll have to find out I guess. I hope my version looks this good! Hope you enjoy the E, it is a great kit. As far as I can tell we never had an issue of that one on this side of the the Atlantic. I got both mine on trips to the States when I had to go with work. There are some aftermarket decals for the E but most are long out of print. The other machine on the Eagle Strike sheet I used for this model was for an E but I used it on the second of the kits I bought. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ForestFan Posted February 4, 2020 Share Posted February 4, 2020 Very nice, agree that it’s a lovely kit, often passed over just like their F-86D 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMCS Posted February 7, 2020 Share Posted February 7, 2020 Lovley 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark Joyce Posted February 7, 2020 Share Posted February 7, 2020 Great job on the build, and that rattle-can finish came out very nice! Cheers, Mark 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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