The stash, that deceitful enemy, lost another fight.
Down here is a Tamiya 1/48 scale F-84G, finished today after having spent more than a year in a forgottten corner of the Drab factory.
Being Tamiya, it should be no surprise that it assembled without any pain. Only difficulty was the canopy, with its many small birdcage windows painted in white, while most of the rest of the plane is in Aluminium.
I used Alclad on a Tamiya gloss black undercoat. Before and after decalling I applied a layer of future. This plane was my first attemtp at using alclad.
The F-84 Thunderjet flew for the first time in 1946 and came too late for World War II. That may be a good thing because the design was full of "issues" and it took years and many different versions before the G-model in 1951 became the first production mature version. Development continued leading to more models with swept wings.
The plane served in Korea, mainly as a ground attack plane. it could not match the Russion MIGs in aerial combat.
It was the first plane flown by the notorious Thunderbirds, and the first jet used for testing aerial refeuling.
All what's left to say is that most likely, in the days of the F-84G, "low visibility" was of little concern.
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