1/48 Tamiya F-84 Thunder Jet

by Colin Whitehouse

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  Thailand National Day 2005 

 

Last year I had the memorable experience of a flight in the back of a RTAF Cessna 01 flown by the pilot known as "Honey Sam". Once I found Siam scale actually released the decals for his    F-84 I decided I had to build it and for added motivation to have it ready for the Thai Kings Birthday on 5th December.

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As this  wa a Tamya kit ,  I cut off the top left corner of the box and added 2.06 cc of Humbrol liquid glue, 2 knife blades, a piece of 1500 wet and dry and a resin seat. I shook the box for 3 mins a day for 3 weeks and placed in the sun. I added 3cc of cockpit green and 2 cc of flat black periodically. For final finishing I used Alclad II over black with Mr colour details. Decals by Siam Scale and stencils from the kit.

Colin

Photos and text © by Colin W