b757captain Posted June 12, 2019 Share Posted June 12, 2019 Hi gents, Here's the second half of my foray into the F-101 family, the -B. I built this one alongside the RF-101C. Most of the kits are the same, with separate sprues for each of the different variants. KH did not change the intake/wing sections for the RF but they are correct for the -B (at least to my eye). Built OOB, the only AM was the Eduard cockpit set because KH only provided instrument and side panel decals for one cockpit! Little slip-up there. The Eduard set looks a little better even though their pre-printed panel color is a little light to me. Paint is a custom mix of Tamiya for FS16473 (ADC Gray) and Mr. Color for all the rest of the bits and pieces. The decals were a disappointment - I have gotten used to KH decals, wonderfully thin, maddeningly hard to work with but usually they look good in the end. On this kit the decals were thick, took forever to release from the backing paper and very hard to get to settle down. It took multiple applications of softener and in a few spots I resorted to dabs of thinner to get them to conform. After all that, I elected to play harda** crewchief where there was no way my bird was going to have a speck of dust on it so no weathering. All in all, an ok build and it looks good next to her sister on the shelf, so to me that's a win! Thanks for looking! Mark LSP_K2, LSP_Kevin, Out2gtcha and 3 others 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
b757captain Posted June 12, 2019 Author Share Posted June 12, 2019 More pics: Cheers, Mark quang, LSP_Kevin, AlbertD and 3 others 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LSP_Kevin Posted June 12, 2019 Share Posted June 12, 2019 Looks great, Mark! Kev Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
quang Posted June 12, 2019 Share Posted June 12, 2019 She's a beaut, Mark. Quang Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gazzas Posted June 12, 2019 Share Posted June 12, 2019 Wonderful! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LSP_K2 Posted June 12, 2019 Share Posted June 12, 2019 I like it just fine. Looks real good to me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AlbertD Posted June 13, 2019 Share Posted June 13, 2019 Very nice. Another beautiful Century Series jet. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Squizzy 78 Posted June 13, 2019 Share Posted June 13, 2019 Great looking bird, I really like the metal finishes around the exhaust areas and the photo etch in the cockpit. Very nice work. Out2gtcha 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aircommando130 Posted June 16, 2019 Share Posted June 16, 2019 You just can't go wrong with a Century Series jet! And yes Air Defense Command jets were super clean...especially if they belonged to a Guard unit! Great job...even if the decals gave you grief it still looks very good! Cheers...Ron Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KUROK Posted June 21, 2019 Share Posted June 21, 2019 My Uncle worked on VooDoos when he was in the service and I've always liked the lines of that aircraft. Nice job! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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