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Ekki
Very good work.
Well done!

Ben M
Wow, so colorful!

Erik De Smet
mister craft kits are a very mixed bag. Some of them , like the thunderjet, are poor copies of very old (50 years +) kits. Some are reissues of older KP kits , but their fouga magister is apparently a reboxing of the Heller kit with their decals. btw their decals are mostly of poor quality, inaccurate & incomplete. But if you have spare decals e.g. from a Special Hobby kit, some of their kits like the fouga, maybe a cheap alternative. Here at scalemates , you can always check the product timeline to find the ancestors of a kit, and a vendor like super hobby shows the content of the kit on their website so that you can know what to expect before buying.

Dave Burgess
Erik, I know. I use the Scalemates database frequently. This was just one of those impulse buys. I was searching EBay for kits to complete my Thunderbirds collection and this one popped up. I hadn't heard of the Skyblazers before, so decided to pick it up. I've built a lot of 'marginal' kits in the past, so I usually don't worry about that. I can still build them, and if they're sub-standard but of a unique subject, that's fine with me. But this kit was SO bad, that when the decals started disintegrating, there was no point in even keeping the kit. That's the first time in 65+ years of model building, that I've tossed a kit without completing it!

Ben M
A beautiful build of an interesting subject as is usual from you!

Dave Burgess
Thx Ben. I particularly liked 'posing' it alongside my fictional Tiger Meet CL1200 (CF-204??).

Spanjaard
I did that color scheme ages ago, I wish it would have looked half as good as yours 🙂

Dash Rendar
Great build, well done!

Torsten
Awesome build and pant job 😎 😎 😎

Torsten
WOW 😎 ❤️️

Dash Rendar
Great build! Always nice to see B5!

Harald Besold
Great project! The Talon looks extremely good in the Thunderbirds colors. I really hope that the T-38 will come onto the market as a new kit in 1/72 at some point. In my opinion there is a real gap in the market. The few old kits are very difficult to obtain. Congratulations on the project.

Dave Burgess
Yeah,I don't even HAVE this model anymore. Got crushed when a couple of my display case shelves collapsed a few years ago (support pins worked themselves loose). I'm working on doing the TBirds collection in 1:72 because I need less display space. I've found a t-38 kit, but as yet, no decals. I believe Warbirds does a 1:48 sheet, but not a 1:72 sheet.

Robert Podkoński
Great job, Dave!

Dave Burgess
Thx. This was an EBay purchase of a partially completed model. The rescue turned out pretty well.

Ekki
Nice work!

Dave Burgess
Thx. I'm gonna have to re-take the teaser photo: it's a bit out of focus

Robert Podkoński
Good job, Dave!

Chris Ubing
Nice work on the hornet 🙂

Dave Burgess
Updated photos

Ekki
Love the colour scheme.
Well done!

Dave Burgess
This particular bird is the gate guardian at CFB Comox on Vancouver Island

Lost_Erik
Well done!

Dave Burgess
Updated photos. Renovated hobby room has much better lighting since the original pics were taken.

Villiers de Vos
Very nice work.

William Joel
Great job, thanks for sharing.

Dave Burgess
Updated photos

Villiers de Vos
Very nice work.

Villiers de Vos
Very nice work.

Ekki
Brilliant work

Villiers de Vos
Very nice work.

Dave Burgess
Updated photos

Dave Burgess
Updated photos

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.