Because the storage space does not increase, I touch the big box again even if I make a small model with a 1/144 scale. I’ll try this F-100F Trumpeter model.
The overall length is about 35cm. It looks better to replace the larger cutter mat.
Because the manual of the trumpeter did not have detailed painting instructions, I painted the cockpit in aircraft gray of Mr. Color. You can see the difference between the natural plastic parts and the painted ones.
The kit has no seat belt parts and no handy decal. I added it separately. This is not accurate because it is not the parts for the F-100. I think a seat belt on the front seat was attached excessively. Because it was strange that only the back seat was different, I made both seats a similar appearance. It seems I have to study the seat belt structure of the jet a little more.
It looks perfect after I pasted a small decal on the molded cockpit panels. I noticed that there are remaining not painted areas on the back seat. I’m not sure about the small parts of coloring. I have to do a retouch later.
I did washing lightly. I think the cockpit to be enough result in this if I put it between a body.
(04-December-2015)
I attached the left and right of a fuselage part together, built in a cockpit, an engine, and an air brake. I was relieved that this large-scale work had been completed.
One side is glued together so that the angle of the central plane doesn’t come out of the angle. After fixing it completely, the other side was attached.
I assemble the belly tanks and the AIM-9 Sidewinder. A belly tank of the F-100 is more significant than the Hurricane I made the other day. It is a strange feeling when I display it.
The fitting with a fuselage and a canopy is quite good. Still, there is a gap slightly, so what should I do? When this gap isn’t blocked neatly, it’ll be trouble later if it’s painted after glued together. I had blown a mist in a canopy many times in the past.
(10-December-2015)
The pitot tube at the nose and the refueling probe under the main wing is now so fragile. They are required careful handling.
I stop assembling when I think about the painting and begin painting work with each part.
Before gluing a canopy, a joint surface of a fuselage and a canopy was painted in matte black.
The masking of the jet airplane’s canopy is easy except for cutting the delicate curve.
I am painting the super stainless steel. The silver changes the finish state of the paintwork by the surface condition, which is problematic. I polished the scarring place with the 1200 sandpaper in the middle of the painting.
(12-December-2015)
It is good to paint the surface where I moved my hand in the same direction from up to down or forward to backward when covering a paper. I’m a beginner because the former silver painting was Hasegawa F-104 many years ago.
I painted ALQ-31 ECM in stainless steel silver. When I checked it, there seemed to be a painting example of white and olive drab. In the case of this body, I prioritized the same color to unite the feeling of the appearance and had stainless steel silver.
I added black and blue to silver in this painting, a little shaded and varied metal surface. Someplace I used iron metallic.
For the space of the landing gear, I used XF-4 yellow-green Tamiya enamel.
I masked the outer shell where the jet engine’s heat changed the airbrush painting’s color. I want to complete it soon because I have a trip to the hot spring next week.
(13-December-2015)
I blew blue, orange, and burnt iron in a belt. It’s a change of color due to the high heat of the outer shell of the engine nozzle. It’s the first try, so a little modest.
There are large decals in this kit. Almost the large patterns are for the Thunderbirds. I think I will attach a band of Sidewinder using F-15 and Dragon AFV model decals that I made before. Because I have Thunderbirds of F-100D at hand, I pass it this time.
I am putting decals on the body. These flaps were made in the downed state, so the decals in the edge of the main wing were stuck on by trial and error to fit a good condition. It was unexpectedly hard work. I intended to make it by painting, but the decals patched carefully are high in success rate. I had put the logo on U.S. Air Force larger one. Is there a slight presence?
It is during inking over the top surface. If I fail here, it’s shedding tears of vexation, but it’ll be OK. I feel like having become bad.
The undersurface is modest inking compare to the topside. If there’s no problem, it is almost completed.
(17-December-2015)
F-100 is the world’s first practical use supersonic-speed fighter jet. Its development started in 1949. The operation was started in 1954. It was used in a North Vietnam bombing in the Vietnam War, but it was changed by the successor F-105 immediately. The F-100 was used for close-air-support missions of the DMZ (demilitarized zone) of South Viet Nam.
F-100 was used until 1971 by U.S. Air Force and until 1980 by the National Guard of the United States. Served in the USAF Thunderbirds from 1956 until 1968; this decal is included in this kit.
This was used in Turkey, France, Denmark, and the Republic of China, other than the United States. All planes were retired by the early 1980s. I suppose it is a nostalgic body like F-86.
Trumpeter sometimes releases surprising maniac aircraft. This F-100F is a two-seat training aircraft. 339 planes were produced, and seven took the Suppression of Enemy Air Defense (SEAD mission) as Wild Weasel. I did not know about the training plane until I bought this kit.
AIM-9 Sidewinder was equipped with 2 of each on the left and right. I used a band of decals from a 1/72 scale F-15 surplus.
Jet nozzle and outskirts were painted in some gradation with changed atmosphere.
The nozzle was in burnt iron and black inking.
Marking is the 48th Tactical Fighter Wing at RAF Lakenheath’s airbase in 1960. It’s a base of the British Air Force, but only the 48th air wing of the U.S. Air Force was stationed.
The long refueling probe is one of the characteristics.
The meter panel decal is nicely detailed.
Unfortunately, the inside left side of the canopy has clouded a little. Did mist flow in from a small gap? It isn’t too conspicuous by the angle. Depending on the angle, I can’t see the dust.
Because I fixed a body and a canopy solidly this time, a connection part was finished neatly; I did not tear it off by force. I wonder if it is better to fix the canopy temporally before the painting.
The adhesion condition was good when the surface was smooth so that the decal working could do happily.
The manual of the trumpeter does not have detailed painting instructions. I checked it by myself and painted it with feeling.
It is a training aircraft with a two-seat cockpit. The instructor was in the back seat, maybe.
I have made the yellow ladder, but there is no place to hang it because the cockpit was closed. It is only an atmosphere.
An air brake was in an open position.
I almost forgot that this belt is connected to the belly tank and main wing.
The wheel and landing gear was washed in black.
The brake cables are molded to the landing gear, and there is an accurate feeling.
I think the one in the fuselage lower part is a 20mm machine gun. The book has four machine guns, but I wonder if F-100F has only two guns.
I’m not sure of the effect of inking. I felt that I had wiped off almost the area. The paint does not remain in the rivet holes.
It was good that a silver body was finished beautifully.
Trumpeter airplane Kit was not difficult to build up. Instead, it was easy to have formed.
The 1/48 jet is powerful. It was rather interesting at the silver painting of the F-104 building. I’m making another aircraft, the SMER Su-7, in silver paint; this is incredibly difficult…
The manual of the trumpeter did not have the instructions to put the decal of USAF on the main wing top surface. I have stuck it by addition. I’m not sure if it’s correct or wrong. I think it should be.
I stuck the same decal on the backside. Because a pylon was disturbed, I patched the decal diagonally and finally fitted looking smart.
(19-December-2015)
