RF-84 Luftwaffe AG51

Marius
Top job for an unusual subject! Very nicely done!
How was the kit? any issues along?

Mid Franconian
Hi Marius! Thank you!
The kit is nice. Reminded me of an early nineties Italeri kit if I can say so. Engravings are a little bit shallow, more a short run kit but at any case buildable. Nice cockpit with 2 types of seats made of resin provided (at the end of their time in the Luftwaffe a Martin Baker seat was used). Fit was good, just a gap between fuselage and wings required some attention. The camera windows required some putty and sanding to make them blending into the fuselage. I tried to recover the glass shine by applying some AK Gauzy inside and outside. But some humidity from cleaning the model before painting came inside the fuselage, reacted with the Gauzy and the transparency was gone - my fault. So I painted them black in the end. Nice decals. In the end a very enjoyable build and the best way for a 72 scale RF-84 I think.

Marius
Thank you for the detailed answer!

I was thinking in the past of buying this resin kit, which had many positive reviews:
Republic RF-84F Thunderflash (PJ Production 721023, 1:72)
but for almost 40€ I thought it's a bit too pricy and I was looking for a classic injection kit. I might taken the Sword kit in consideration mabye.

Neuling
Very appealing result, beautiful colors!

Mid Franconian
Thanks Neuling!

Mirko Römer
A rare sight, but a great one!

Mid Franconian
Thank you Mirko! You are right, the RF-84 is not seen as a finished model very frequenttly. Even if you consider the widespread use of this recce plane. Lots of of nice schemes to choose from like Belgian, Greek, Dutch, U.S. of course...

Neil
Just fabulous! 👏👏

Oleg Bogolei
Nice result! i am on a finaal steps of the same model and my thoughts of this model are nor so good) how did ypu do yellow line around the cocpit?

Mid Franconian
Thank you Neil!
@ Oleg: I used small strips of beige colored decal. Available here: tl-modellbau.de/Streifen-schmal_1
I have cut them smaller by using a fresh scalpel blade.
Would be good to have a source for pink strips which could be used for Russian planes´ cockpit sealings.

Skyhiker
While looking at your photos I was also asking myself how you make the canopies so perfectly. The beige decal strips are a great solution. Beautiful results.

gorby
Lovely result!

Neuling
Yes!

Mid Franconian
Thanks guys for bringing the RF-84 up again 😀 Glad you like it!
Regarding the decal strips: sometimes I have my moments and things work well 😄 as planned! Took a long time to find such kind of colored decal. Dirty pink stripes would be good as well for Russian planes…

Ekki
Excellent!

Michael Kohl
Immer wieder interessant, was bei uns so alles rumgefligen ist. Schöne Maschine.

Skyhiker
I think this might work of Russian planes...(white decal paper) WWI Germ..k) (Aviattic ATT32079, 1:32)

Mid Franconian
@ Skyhiker: thank you, that looks great! The color seems to be spot on. Will try that!

Skyhiker
Not sure why it's so pricey but it might be worth it. At least its a European store so you don't need to run to the Zollampt. If you order it send me a message. I would like to hear what you think about it, since I have a bunch of Russian kits to make.