Great tip Matt! I may steal it for my thud.

My turn
Today's progress.....






Man am I blind

oh well i will fix it and move on

So usually I use testors decal set and I kept hearing about how great micro set and micro sol is.So i finally broke down and tried it for the first time holy s#$T Balls I will never go back to testors again

I think everyone who has tried that stuff has become an instant convert


Hey guys, I was just wondering what greens you all are using for your interiors and wheel bays? My build is an F-106 if that makes any difference.

For my F-105, Airfix recommended Humbrol Light Grey, looks like I used Dark Gull Gray FS 36231. Not the same old zinc chromate...

I used Polly scale zinc chromite

Model Master Interior Green cut with some medium green for tonal variations. "Q"

My Thud wears paint I painted the silver yesterday using Tamiya gloss aluminum after masking off the OD stripes, spine, and anti-glare panel. The result was pretty bright for my taste, but I was able to tone things down a bit using some post shading with flat black along the panel lines and some Alclad II dark aluminum in the panel fields. I sealed everything with a good flat coat and it looks closer to what I was wanting. I just finished shooting the paint on the landing gear and all the other extraneous parts that need to be silver. Will start with decals soon. Thanks, "Q"

Looking good guys.
Justin, the heat painting around the burner can looks great. I'm still having trouble believing all the rivet detail on that kit. Gonna have to break down and buy one some day.

Matt, with a small tarmak dio and some maintenance equipment scattered around that pig would look straight out of Nam. Nice job on the tone down too. That's pretty much how I like to do my NMF's.

As for me, I'm back to work after taking care of the wife for 2 weeks. Plenty of 14 hour work days ahead so I'm hoping I can get my Dagger finished by the deadline.


Hermon

thanks for noticing cuda

Great, thanks guys! That gives me a decent baseline that I can roll with.

Justin: I second Hermon's comments. Your wheel bays look great as always too

Hi guys
Everybody having fun!!??
J... how fun is Alcland !!!,just stinks a bit, the Hun looks superb,I love those wells
Q.. that is a bloddy brilliant idea for masking canopy corners,I'm glad I've got that Waldron punch and die set!,the Thuds looking ACE

Hermon... man those decals come up short ,I hate it when that happens
happenend to me several times,now you got to try to match the red with paint now! BUMMOX!!
Back to my seat and tub
Pics soon
Andy

Thanks Andy. Glad it helps. Well, after making several attempts to decal my Thud I finally succeeded. I won't go into details, but lets just say that it has taken three days and many attempts to get to this point. I still need to add the red warning stripes for the turbine, wing walks, and the refueling probe door. I will be doing that with some red striped decal material I have. Cut and paste at it finest. Anyway, here she is. Trying to get her wrapped up by tomorrow as I leave for vacation on Saturday. Thanks, "Q"
ps. Markings are fictitious and come from the spares box.

just be careful using it on tamiya decals!

I'm calling this one done. And....just in time for vacation! I'll get a pic posted to the gallery asap. "Q"

Nice finish Q.

Decals done all that is left is a few touch ups,canopy ,landing gear and drop tanks...............







More soon "J"

I found the Decals in this kit to be really good except #24 is printed backwards and upside down so I didn't use it.Its a little black strip on the top of the vertical stabilizer

Q: Sweet! Not often I get to see one of those in a natural finish like that

Justin: Those decals actually look really good on that bird, even if they perhaps don't exist. Sounds like decal 24 would be easy enough to mask and paint. Just out of curiosity, how do you guys get those thin red stripes to go on so straight?

Patience and a lot of cussing . I usually try to line mine up with the nearest panel line.

Oh forgot I didn't mask and paint because all of the f-100c's I have looked at in the NMF have not had it.

Thanks for the kudos guys, as to the red stripe issue...Justin hit it on the head...years of practice....and cussing. I also keep the surface fairly wet to allow for easier moving into place, then use a Q-tip to carefully draw off the excess water. Once the water is taken away, I just let things set and dry. Then set everything in place with another clear coat. Hope that helps. "Q"

Alright then, at least I know what to expect

Alright J, 'nough said. Looking forward to seeing the final touches

Guys, I finally had a moment to dig into my 1/48 RMX F-106 and now have somewhat of a heavy heart as I have discovered that it is covered in raised panel lines. I've been wanting to build some of these for quite some time which has added to the disappointment... oh well, c'est la vie...
And then dummy me, I realized that I was saving that one for the Delta Wing Campaign, but I don't yet have the heart to look inside the box for my 1/48 RMX F-101 Voodoo

Jeremy, Don't let raised panels lines dash your hopes. All is not lost. A little forethought and planning ahead and you can have a nice looking build. Monograms F-101 has some excellent cockpit and wheel well detail for the age of the kit and their 106 is equally as nice. Just take your time with them. Once you get a couple of kits with raised panel lines under your belt you'll see that they aren't that hard to deal with. Keep your spirits up. "Q"

Jeremy, raised panel lines are nothing to back away from. The standard fix is to sand them all off and then rescribe them. I'm too lazy to do it the right way though. All I do is sand off ONLY the raised panel lines that are destroyed when sanding seams such as fuselage joints etc. Then using the ol' preshading method I just paint them back on. Unless you put your nose 6 inches away from the model you'll never see the difference.
This is exactly how I did my F-102 and you can't tell the raised portions are missing at all.


Hermon