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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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