F-84E Thunderjet 1:48

[hyair]

Attached here images of the two.
The Buccaneer is a much bigger plane and has a crew of two.
The SE is fly model 51 that came with the Harrier as well while the Buccaneer is Gary's.

Yair

[hyair]

Sorry members these images belong to the Blackburn Buccaneer thread - I will resend them to were they belong.

Yair

[hyair]

Both fighters were operating from carriers but the mission of the Buccaneer was to fight the Swerdlove class russian battle ship with a tactical atomic bomb
of the Hiroshima size of 20 kilotone TNT and the A-7 was developed to be a regular attack fighter.
Both can lift very high load of some 7000 kg of various weaponary of all kinds butthe Buccaneer integral bomb bay is missing in the A-7.
They are very much alike in terms
of speed climb and range.
The Buccaneer shape is much more pleasing to the eye than the "SLUF"- short little ugly fellow " which was the unofficial A-7 name. The A-7 had a more modernize nav attack system which enabled a precise bomb release on a target in one pass.
So each plane was Good for it's intended mission.

Yair

[hyair]

The F-84F was the the swept wing version of the F-84E strait wing.
It was longer and heavier with a more powerfull J65 engine.
It was much quicker able to dive supersonically with limiting 1.18 mach number and able to carry twice the bomb load.
I pose both models in 1:48 scale.
The thunderstrike is from WHM and was given the Danish airforce markings.

Yair

[Don Boose]

Excellent comparison images.

To my eye, the Royal Navy extra dark sea grey and sky livery was one of the best looking naval color schemes ever.

Don

[hyair]

I fully agreed with you in this regard !
I need to build the A-6 intruder to start to complete my NAVY series planes.
The GPM model comes with the boring dull grey scheme and even the American flag
is hard to be seen , so I choosed to build the Kancho model which comes with the dark sea grey and sky livery in scale of 1:48 which is my standard scale.

Yair