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Ray Loch
Excellent build and interesting subject.

Dave Burgess
The whole project started when I saw the decal sheet. Being Canadian, I couldn't turn it up!

Dave
Looks Great,

Dave Burgess
Another kit I won in the early '80s (same hobby contest). Didn't like the bland paint scheme, so I ordered up a Microscale Desert Storm sheet, and did it up in VA-72 livery.

Dave Burgess
The CAF never flew the F-5E Tiger II. They were saddled with the older, almost useless CF-5A Freedom Fighter. However, I won this old Monogram 1:48 kit at a hobby show back in the early 1980's, and I didn't have much interest in any American versions of the Tiger II at the time, so I decided to to do it in CAF livery. Superficially, the two a/c resemble each other,and that was good enough for me! Call it a what-if project, if you like.

Calvin Gifford
Smurfy job!

Guy Rump
Nice job! 👍

Dave Burgess
Updating photos of old models in my collection. This 1:48 F-100 Thunderbirds was built ~1984. Missing LG doors on the starboard lg and the end of the nose pitot has been broken off. Still for 40+ years, it's survived well.

Dave Burgess
Another one of my 1:48 builds from the early '80s. Like many of my models back then, the photos taken on my film camera back then have been lost, but the models have survived. Finally took them out of the display case, dusted them off, and updated my photo albums.

bossy122
A nice 80s effort! Do you recall how you did the red on the nose? I have 2 Thunderbirds in the stash and its memories of building one as a kid ( mid 70s) and trying to brush paint the red that haunt me still!

Dave Burgess
Been so long now I can't remember. I'm sure part of it at least was decal. I probably just matched the paint. It's also possible that I used the decal to create a mask template and painted the whole thing. I have several airbrushes, so no problem with brush painting the red.

Dave Burgess
Actually built this back in 1984, but I just realized I only had 2 pictures of it. (probably lost my old film camera shots). So, I pulled it out of the display case, dusted it off, and gave it the full 'treatment'!

Kendrick Brown
Stellar decals. Feel like I've seen this plane somewhere before.

Ferenc Sarka
Nice cat. Congrat!

Ekki
Well done!

Dave Burgess
One (not so minor) flaw, I'd built, painted & decalled the model before I realized that I'd inadvertently attached the strakes on the engine undersides front-to-back! I tested removing them to correct the error, only to discover I'd done such a good job cementing them, that I risked damaging the part and/or the decal in the process. I chose to live with it a-is. It's one of the bad habits we long-term modelers get into - assuming we know what we're doing, and not referring to the instructions enough!

Ekki
Lovely.

Dave Burgess
Thx

Ben M
Well a nice result!

bossy122
Oldie but a goodie. Wonderful job.

Dave Burgess
Photos updated

gorby
Nice model.

Dave Burgess
Thx.

Dave Burgess
Photos updated

Neuling
👍

Dave Flitton
Interesting aircraft, how was the build?

Dave Burgess
Not bad. There wasn't enough room inside to add enough counterweight, so I had to prop it up with a piece of clear styrene.

Dave Burgess
Photos updated

Casey Beckett
Cool! Never seen a finished one. Very nice!

Dave Burgess
Photos updated

Dave Burgess
Photos updated

Dave Burgess
Photos updated

Dave Burgess
Updated pics

Clifford Keesler
Nice Lighting.

Dave Burgess
Updated pics