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Stikpusher wrote: ↑Thu May 11, 2023 3:49 pm Thanks Kari. The F-84 is one of those underrepresented subjects in modeling. Especially when you consider how widespread and long the type’s service life was among NATO countries.

That is absolutely true!

- Kari

Here’s a good site with lots of photos on the type…

https://www.thunderstreaks.com/

Thanks Carlos, great info!


- Kari

Well, it’s been a month since my last update, so here we go…

Based on John’s technique of putting on a gloss blue base coat under an aluminum metallic NMF, I’m giving that a shot here. In this case I used Humbrol Midnight Blue, which is also a dead match for Blue Angels Blue… I painted the undersides today and will let it dry overnight so as not to mar the finish



and then to get a different tone on the drop tanks, I used a gloss dark gray on those



I’ll have more progress in a few days hopefully

This will be interesting to see the NFM results. Looks good so far Carlos.

Looking forward to these results!

Guys, I’m looking forward to the results myself.

Todays progress update, I had finished redos and touch ups in the cockpit area, masked off the canopy areas, and glued them in place. Although the canopy hood is only tack glued in place for removal later.



Next up is a black coat on the canopy framing, then the gloss dark blue on the upper surfaces…

Looking good. I love all those gaping yaw era fighters/attack planes. I need another F-84F for the collection - that articulated canopy is one of my favorite things about it.

Thanks John. Those early jets with the open nose intakes sure do have a unique charm about them, some more than others. The Thunderstreak was certainly one of the more attractive types.

I completed the gloss blue undercoat painting yesterday, and the paint finally dried overnight for handling. I used gloss gray on the drop tanks and a different gloss blue on the bomb for different metallic shades in the finish. Let’s see how that turns out.



Oh yeah, I do have to say that this gloss Humbrol enamel looks magnificent when dried. Soooo shiny and smooth.

Pretty! Those drop tanks look SMOOTH!