jeaton01
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This Tamiya F-84 is a great kit, highly recommended. I had a Verlinden and a CMK resin set and I used one resin part and two PE parts from them, they just weren't that much of an improvement, and next time I do one of these I won't use anything but the Eduard seat belts, and maybe the instrument panel. The PE parts from the CMK set were the instrument panel and the rear view mirror, and the resin part is the detail that fits inside the back of the canopy.
Alclad ALC 101 was used for the base color, a few panels were done in Alclad Dark Aluminum, 107, I think. Tamiya acrylics and Model Master enamels were used for the markings and other painted parts. The markings are for the airplane flown by Lt. Jacob Kratt, who shot down two MiG 15's and a Yak piston engine fighter. Not your usual F-84G record in the Korean war as they were tasked with ground attack most of the time, though they were used to escort B-29's early in the war. Jacob Kratt was in the 56th Fighter Group in WW II, and flew the U-2 for the CIA. He was born in 1925 and died in April 2019, a long and eventful life.
I had a Cutting Edge decal set and used a few decals from it but it was primarily used a reference for the markings which were mostly painted, except for the stars and bars.
A few years ago (August 2008, does time fly or what!) I built an F-86E in Robbie Risner's markings and it's a natural companion to this F-84G so you'll have to look at a few pictures of them together. Robbie Risner is also topical for this campaign, I built the F-86E in 2008 so it doesn't really fit here in the temporal sense. Here's the build log: http://yolo.net/%7Ejeaton/mymodels/f86/1f86e/1f86e.htm
Alclad ALC 101 was used for the base color, a few panels were done in Alclad Dark Aluminum, 107, I think. Tamiya acrylics and Model Master enamels were used for the markings and other painted parts. The markings are for the airplane flown by Lt. Jacob Kratt, who shot down two MiG 15's and a Yak piston engine fighter. Not your usual F-84G record in the Korean war as they were tasked with ground attack most of the time, though they were used to escort B-29's early in the war. Jacob Kratt was in the 56th Fighter Group in WW II, and flew the U-2 for the CIA. He was born in 1925 and died in April 2019, a long and eventful life.
I had a Cutting Edge decal set and used a few decals from it but it was primarily used a reference for the markings which were mostly painted, except for the stars and bars.
A few years ago (August 2008, does time fly or what!) I built an F-86E in Robbie Risner's markings and it's a natural companion to this F-84G so you'll have to look at a few pictures of them together. Robbie Risner is also topical for this campaign, I built the F-86E in 2008 so it doesn't really fit here in the temporal sense. Here's the build log: http://yolo.net/%7Ejeaton/mymodels/f86/1f86e/1f86e.htm
