F-84 FAF 1-AG
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Need to sculp the helmet.
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Getting the cockpit ready.
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Varnish and wash will come soon. The decal comes from Revell's P-47M - I assumed the same manufacturer, Republic, should have used similar dashboards 😉
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Hmmm, to give up or not to give up? 🙁
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Surgery in progress. Phase 1 - almost a texan chainsaw massacre.
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Phase 2 - reattached.
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Phase 3 - Time for filling.
PS. Yes, that's the Heller's canopy.
PS. Yes, that's the Heller's canopy.
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What a fit! 😄
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Sculpting the canopy front with Perfect Putty
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Not sure the wells should be green, need to check it once again.
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That's how she looks right now, did my best to blend the wing into fuselage.
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Last check before adding all the colours.
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Red and exhaust added.
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2 kgs of masking tape later 🙂
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Bummer! The Heller decals turned out to be simply out of register 🙁
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Reinforcements have arrived.
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Reinforcements have been immediately put into action 🙂
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Completed. Will take more pictures soon.
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Kommentare
41 27 August 2021, 20:16
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I would be tempted by the Yugoslav example... but of course it's your model! Taking a seat...
27 August 2021, 21:08
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I am too 🙂 Having better decals, Heller kit and plans to buy HB set one day as well.
27 August 2021, 21:30
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Łukasz, your fondness for old and difficult molds amazes me... Weren't there any Academy or Tamiya kits available? I'am a fan of you 😄
Following! (one more time 😛 )
29 August 2021, 17:51
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Glad to read your comments Thomas & Cuajete. Unfortunately I have bad news - I inspected the kit and the canopy is missing 🙁
Wondering what to do now:
- use the Inplast set with recessed panel lines and sacrifice the Heller boxing, by stealing the canopy;
- use the Heller set with raised panel lines and leave the Inplast set for the Archive X.
29 August 2021, 19:43
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Welcome Daniel 👍 Well, I decided to steal the canopy from Heller set and stick to Inplast sprues for their recessed lines (and sentiment!). Need to find a reasonable driver too.
31 August 2021, 09:06
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You made me check it Señor 😄 Yes, it does indeed. Turns out it's a pirate copy, but a good one 😄
31 August 2021, 19:35
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Having built one with my daughter, I say you are a hero to tackle this.
Watching!
1 September 2021, 19:57
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Good choice my friend, the kit is really good for it's age and origin 🙂
1 September 2021, 20:02
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You could have cast a new canopy from the other kit by making a mold and using clear two part epoxy.
8 October 2021, 21:06
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Indeed, but that would require a lot of effort. And I decided I won't build the Heller thingy with the raised lines.
8 October 2021, 21:22
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I have that Heller kit planned a Portuguese Airforce livery so I'm watching with great interest.
19 October 2021, 18:35
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This is an exercise in masochism Lukasz... But good to see you refuse to give up on it.
20 October 2021, 16:19
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Thank you both. Well, this particular set seems to come from two different series, as the kit is not symmetrical indeed. However the previous one was much better and I built it twice actually 😄
F-84G by Inplast | Album by Woody (1:72)
20 October 2021, 17:53
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3 Inplast kits??
Łukasz you are definitely the master of hard and vintage kits... having cheap Academy, Hobby Boss and Tamiya 😄
20 October 2021, 18:32
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Surprise my friend, here the Tamiya and Academy are really hard to find 😛 Italeri seems to be most limited of them all.
Kits were actually 2, but I restored the US one few years ago.
20 October 2021, 19:31
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You're a hero Łukasz. I remember building this kit and it is one of the most horrific monsters ever...;) Keep it up, really good work so far!
20 October 2021, 19:49
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Czapla is much much better IMHO, Łukasz - the only worse kit I know is this one:
PZL-23A Karaś (RUCH , 1:72).
20 October 2021, 20:52
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Robert, Czapla is bad, it discouraged hundreds of beginners in this country 😄
Maciej, I built it too, ages ago, looks and feels like a soap, not styrene 😄 And dat glass, oh man! 😄
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20 October 2021, 20:58
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Come on, Mates, I've build both (and with respect to Czapla, many times 😉 in my youth)... of course I do not say that these models resembled something finally 😄
20 October 2021, 21:04
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As far as my memory reaches I don't think I completed it. Perhaps I should give it a try? 😛
20 October 2021, 21:18
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@Łukasz: I am not sure if I managed to keep the symmetry on my Czaplas then 😉 All in all, it is quite a complex machine to assemple with its parasol wing and multi-strut fixed undercarriage... Maybe we should launch the Czapla Build Group here one day? 😄
21 October 2021, 05:09
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@Andy: Thank you and godd to see you here 🙂
@Robert: Hmmm, tempting indeed. I think I need second kit, one might be not enough to build a single plane out of it 😄
21 October 2021, 07:25
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Łukasz, good job with P-50. I have that kit and I can confirm that the canopy is the worst I have ever seen. I hope that one day I will be able to get a vacum copy because I don't know if I will be able to sand and polish that plastic chunk, 😄
I'm sorry that it is not easy to get Academy or Tamiya in Poland :/
21 October 2021, 10:19
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As far as I recall I tried to use the transparent plastic as a replacement, as its canopy is not round at all (at least that was the knowledge I had while building it). That's a bit of OT, isn't it? 😄
21 October 2021, 10:59
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@Cuajete: generally Tamiya and Academy kits are available in Poland, yet they are relatively pricey here and new offerings arrive a bit later than in other EU countries (the same is with respect to Airfix kits - I am still waiting for a HP 42 to arrive to my LHS...and I live in a big city...)
21 October 2021, 11:45
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How on Earth did they get the wings soo wrong? Respect to you, for taking on the correction 👍
21 October 2021, 19:50
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Thank you mates. My guess is the sprues come from different molds or production series. Still, it's a sentimental build, not the best in class 😉
22 October 2021, 07:29
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Thank you and welcome. Finished the main painting today, the "Italian" red looks outstanding, doesn't it?
28 November 2021, 13:19
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I see, you are seriously improving your airbrushing skills. The finish (both the metal and the red) looks really neat!
28 November 2021, 13:37
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A bit indeed Hawkeye 😉 Still, it's gonna be weathered and at least semi matt in the end, so I keep cracking on.
29 November 2021, 08:50
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Cellulite is easier to solve on plastic than on human skin 😉
Nice painting job, Łukasz!
29 November 2021, 19:08
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Gracias amigo 🙂
Bummer! The Heller decals turned out to be simply out of register 🙁 That means it won't be a quick build, I need to source them from somewhere.
The Inplast set doesn't help (see pic #1) 😄
Anybody having spare Italeri kit maybe? 😉
30 November 2021, 21:23
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I have one in the stash, I can give you the french decals from the kit, as I plan to do an USAF plane. Let me know if You want them. Great build so far!
30 November 2021, 21:33
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I'd gladly hug them 🙂 (preferably together with the Italian set)
1 December 2021, 09:21
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Oh, that's some cool and super friendly model builder cooperation there! Nice!
2 December 2021, 06:29
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Reinforcements have arrived 🙂 Hope to use them "asap as possible" 😉
9 December 2021, 11:48
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Thanks y'all.
The decals are on, thanks to quick shipment from Patryk. Currently drying after being covered with Micro Sol 🙂
Thomas, the most colourful ones belong to the Italian version, but I asked Patryk for them too not without a plan 🙂
9 December 2021, 22:00
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It is unbelievable what you have done on a basis of this kit, Łukasz... It must have been around 1989 when I first got it in my hands and still remember it well... Chapeau bas!
18 December 2021, 20:35
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Many thanks for your kind response 🙂 My memory used to tell me it's not a bad kit, but this one was a tad asymmetrical to say the least 😉
19 December 2021, 12:10
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Those decals sure turned out great! What a nice aircraft! Clean and appealing end result from this old kit!
19 December 2021, 15:11
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Great looking Thunderjet, Lucasz! I have a couple of older Heller boxings in the stash too.
19 December 2021, 18:34
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Thanks, it's all that nice thanks to Patryk's support 👍.
Heller kit is way better detailed with two notable exceptions: raised panel lines and decals out of register here and there.
20 December 2021, 08:28
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Caught a glimpse of the winter sun today, so you can enjoy the usual hangar pics. Really hard to take pics on these shortest days of the year.
22 December 2021, 20:43
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Beautiful sun-pics, Łukasz!
Happy Christmas to all mates! Enjoy it, but careful with massive infections.
23 December 2021, 18:55
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Thank you mates. Fingers crossed they won't lock the Spain down I plan to go there soon.
23 December 2021, 19:39
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You're welcome, but take care. Omicron's incidence curve has started out strong here, despite high levels of vaccination (here we are in the sixth wave). I hope that when you come, the infections curve has dropped to pre-Omicron levels in Spain. No drastic measures no strong restrictions are being taken to avoid contagions, so these will rise long after the holidays.
23 December 2021, 20:38
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Planning to spend just few days around the Three Kings in the south, fingers crossed.
Sorry for OT 🙂
23 December 2021, 20:50
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I hope you enjoy those days. You can take the opportunity to take photos in your hangar with the southern sun 😄 😛
23 December 2021, 21:01
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Then you can get spanish sand for the possible future Dreaming of Barra's display base 😛
25 December 2021, 18:40