F-100 D Super Sabre
in Thunderbird Finish
After I've already
shown here on ARC two of my Huns in 1:32 scale, I want to show you number 3
in a colorful finish of the USAF Aerobatic Team "The Thunderbirds"
when they operated the F-100 D in the mid sixties.
Built generally
straight out of the box, I had to add the plumbing for a smoke generator running
below the vertical fin ending in a smoke pipe above the exhaust nozzle and Zactoman's resin nose to give the Hun the correct face.
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Many articles have
already been written on Trumpeter's big Hun, so I don't have to say much about
the building and the quality of the kit. Only the kit's intake has to be
corrected and that is a must.
Unfortunately CAM
has not yet released his forthcoming decals for a Thunderbird-Hun, so I had to
paint my model with handmade masks. The blue stars are taken from a Fantasy
Printshop sheet with all sizes of stars.
All not painted
parts of the model are plated with simple kitchen foil and this time I've used
the shiny side of the foil for the area below the cockpit. The middle of the
fuselage is foiled with the backside of the aluminium foil, while the rear
fuselage is plated with parts of foil cooked with egg shells to create a
certain burned metal character. Finally I used ALCLAD's hot metal violet, to
give this part the final touch.
As you can see my
Hun-Fleet is growing and I swear that this was not my last model of this type.
Peter Doll
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