Monogram Convair F-102A Delta Dagger
Posted: Fri Nov 12, 2021 6:23 pm
I took this one out to the Cameron Airport today for some outdoor photos. I finished it last week, having started around May 1. Working on it in fits and starts, I finally called it quits. It is the 1990 release of the 1/48 Convair F-102A from Monogram and it marks number four of of my completed Century Series fighters, alongside the Monogram F-100 and RF-101B and the Testors F-104. I still have a Monogram F-105 and F-106 in the stash but honestly, I don't think I'll be able to crowd them all together on one shelf. They are pretty big birds!
I based this one on a photo I found. I was drawn to its rather unusual "silver dope" finish and found a set of Pro-Modeler decals for an Idaho Air Guard plane almost just like the one in that single photo. One of the drawbacks to that scheme was matching the lime-green color of the Idaho marking for the wing fences. That little challenge turned out to be not that much and I got pretty close. Many photos of Delta Daggers show their brake doors painted in a different color. Since I had custom mixed enough green, I exercised a bit of artistic license and painted this one's brake doors to match.
It is almost all OOB except for Eduard seatbelts, and a bit of seat plumbing I added. I added the antennae just aft of the canopy too. The drop tanks in the photo were ADC gray with polished tips and ends but I liked how the ModelMaster Chrome Silver looked and left one in all-over silver; just say it's a replacement tank. The aircraft is painted with Humbrol Metal Cote matte aluminum and finish coated with a semi-gloss clear. I had a few little boo-boos in the topside silver and after it was clear-coated, I tried to touch them up. They looked terrible; but then I decided to mask off the areas and square them up. Then, I cut-out card-stock masks to clear-coat those squares. It looks much better and perhaps represents "touched up" spots. The insignia decals are the 1990 kit, while the Idaho specific decals are from the 1996 Pro-Modeler sheet. I over-coated them all with MicroMark decal film and used really hot water.
Thanks for stopping by and having a look! Have a great weekend everybody!
real deal:
a sister:
I based this one on a photo I found. I was drawn to its rather unusual "silver dope" finish and found a set of Pro-Modeler decals for an Idaho Air Guard plane almost just like the one in that single photo. One of the drawbacks to that scheme was matching the lime-green color of the Idaho marking for the wing fences. That little challenge turned out to be not that much and I got pretty close. Many photos of Delta Daggers show their brake doors painted in a different color. Since I had custom mixed enough green, I exercised a bit of artistic license and painted this one's brake doors to match.
It is almost all OOB except for Eduard seatbelts, and a bit of seat plumbing I added. I added the antennae just aft of the canopy too. The drop tanks in the photo were ADC gray with polished tips and ends but I liked how the ModelMaster Chrome Silver looked and left one in all-over silver; just say it's a replacement tank. The aircraft is painted with Humbrol Metal Cote matte aluminum and finish coated with a semi-gloss clear. I had a few little boo-boos in the topside silver and after it was clear-coated, I tried to touch them up. They looked terrible; but then I decided to mask off the areas and square them up. Then, I cut-out card-stock masks to clear-coat those squares. It looks much better and perhaps represents "touched up" spots. The insignia decals are the 1990 kit, while the Idaho specific decals are from the 1996 Pro-Modeler sheet. I over-coated them all with MicroMark decal film and used really hot water.
Thanks for stopping by and having a look! Have a great weekend everybody!
real deal:
a sister:
