F-100D Thunderbirds

[DEATH ANGELS]

Hi John,
I have cases of Detail & Scale and still have several Vol.33 F-100. There are a few belly photos and 1/72 5-views. One line set has the C another has the D. If Diamond in the Sky does not have the info needed let me know.

[The Mole]

John,
sent a couple scans to your bellsouth address.

[John Bowden]

Thanks Man! These will help allot!

[John Bowden]

A BIG Thanks to "the Mole", if not for his help I would not be this far along, nor this acurate! Untill I got the email from him, almost everything I had done was wrong!

I've still got a long way to go, but here is what I have done of the T-Bird on the bottom of the plane.

P.S.

This is scaled up to 1/32 from the original 1/48 I'm working on. I figure if everything lines up at this scale it will be better at the samller scale!

[The Mole]

John,
I give you a BIG thanks back. The model looks great. Your doing all the work, I just sent a couple scans. Are you going to do the European version?

[rutzes]

I scaled my two Kampfflieger Huns to 1/33 and it was no problem to build, the fit was great.

Your recolored variant looks highly promising! A must-have as soon as it will be available ;-)

[John Bowden]

Thanks Guys!

I noticed in the pic I posted the T-Bird's tail feathers looked a little on the narrow side, so I have widened them.

Right now I'm working on the normal aircraft warning/inforamtional markings and the flag decal on the side of the aircraft showing the places they been. At 1/48 scale this will not show up very detailed, but like Rutzes I also like to up-scale and at 1/32 and above this will show up very well........ Soooo...... individual flags are required and they are turning out to be a pain to locate and or replicate.

I also plan to add the bent re-fueling probe and tail hook and housing to the already great details Roman has designed into this model.

My plan is to re-color the Number ONE aircraft from the 1967 season, I can add the other planes on the team but this will entail some redundant parts. I might just do a free add-on to the model for those who want to do the entire team, or another plane instead of the Number ONE.

Frank..... The Skyblazers flew the "C" model the the Hun and with Roman's permission I would like to make the changes required to his "D" to achieve this. They are minor changes and since I have his first release of this model, it had "C" wings alread,y so it would make it easier.

As far as an "F" version of the HUN I might have to wait on that............ I'm thinking about a THUD Thunderbird next

[John Bowden]

Strike Two!

Second mag made it in today and again I'm disappointed!

Wow! I would have never believed that there is so little GOOD information on the Thunderbirds!!!!!

I'll keep plodding on.................

[The Mole]

John,
Email me where to send you my copy of Diamond in the Sky. What have you got to lose.

[757rol]

Hi John
maybe this can help you

Rgds

YouTube - 1959 USAF Thunderbirds in Flight with Cockpit Views