AREA 88 : "Need a Boost?" (F-100D)
1August 22, 2018For a 1/144 Super Sabre, Otaki seems to have the only kit in town...
2August 22, 2018I use the word “kit” loosely. Not a lot in this one...
3August 22, 2018That’s more or less the only bits I’ll use.
4August 22, 2018First up, that nose. Needs serious thinning and a bit of reshaping.
5August 22, 2018Boxed in the air intake, cut out the area for the cockpit and will be using a red LED to block up the afterburner.
6August 22, 2018Since this will be “wheels up” I decided to add an airbrake.
7August 22, 2018Added a cockpit floor and now all the guts now glued in place.
8August 22, 2018All buttoned up. Now to remove the raised panel lines, rescribe and putty the seams/gaps.
9August 22, 2018The airbrake well looks good, but needs to fill in some gaps due to uneven thickness of the fuselage interior.
10September 9, 2018Covered the wheel wells.
11September 9, 2018Added some cockpit details.
12April 9, 2019Changed my mind (I'm allowed!) so I uncovered the wheel wells and boxed them in instead.
13April 19, 2019Finished off the scratched cockpit... Mickey Simon reporting for duty!
14April 27, 2019Got the base down and added the pilot tube.
15May 5, 2019Top side paint on...
16May 5, 2019underside paint on... does that look like Israeli Eggshell blue?
17May 5, 2019Scratchbuilding for the underside... and I managed to drop some glue on the paint job... naturally.
18May 9, 2019Base layer of paint on and masked.
19May 9, 2019Then the first layer of camouflage.
20May 10, 2019Second layer of camouflage... it’s looking better.
21May 12, 2019Final details... into the home stretch! Engine LED added.
22May 13, 2019The wheels are glued on “mid-takeoff”
23May 13, 2019Despite the trouble with the LED, afterburners are go!
24May 13, 2019Now... for the rocket boosters.
25May 15, 2019But first... a panel wash.
26May 18, 2019Let’s not forget the rocket boosters, shall we?
27May 19, 2019And... we're done!
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Album info
A wip album of my build of the F-100D Super Sabre featured in my AREA 88 1/144 project "The Rocket-Booster Takeoff".
