1/72 Revell F-105D

by Patrick Vossenberg 

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Found this F-105D Thunderchief from Monogram/Revell in 1/72 scale as a bargain in a supermarket.  Having always liked the sleek lines of the "Thud", I was very happy to have found it.  I built it basically out of the box, adding only an AGM-45 Shrike missile from the Italeri A-7E and an AN/ALQ pod from one of the Hasegawa weapons set.  Decals are mainly from the kit and of good quality.  I added some stencil data from a Superscale F-105G sheet though, as the decal sheet provided in the kit is not that extensive.  

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This is really an old kit (my version has a copyright molded in from 1988 meaning that the tooling is nearly 20 years old) but very well detailed: the cockpit (including side walls) was just painted and drybrushed to highlight the very nice detail, same for the landing gears and wheel wells which look very convincing out of the box.  The fuselage detail is great - with very fine raised panel lines and other details molded on.  I did not rescribe any of the panel lines, in order not to lose the other relief detail which is really good, but choose to do a white priming of the complete jet followed by a pre-shading with black on all the main panel lines instead, which would show through the camo pattern later and highlight the panel lines and other relief detail subtly.  The aircraft was airbrushed free-hand in standard SEA colours using Humbrol enamels.

Patrick

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Photos and text © by Patrick Vossenberg