F-100C

Mmmmm, yummy. Great looking paintjob youve chosen. Will be interesting to see it come to fruition.

...Guy

 Can wait to get ahold of one. The $$$$ of them kits is plain nuts, to me. I'll find one at contest for under $30 in a few years!!!

 Make sure you put up some pics, I never tire of seeing your NMF's!

The scheme should make an interesting model.  Looking forward to your build.

Regards,  Rick

Now that I've finally rounded up some of the old Monogram 100-D's, Trumpy releases these guys.

Always the way, isn't it?

 Ah yes, I too have ordered the 100 thru my LHS... So looking forward to building it. Definitely she will be dressed in the 136th TFG outta Niagara Falls NY..

Either this NMF bird...

Or as they appeared in Vietnam and back Stateside...

Flaps up,

Mike

Rangers Lead The Way

Butz wrote:

Ah yes, I too have ordered the 100 thru my LHS...

Let's hope your LHS preordered it as soon as the distributors were accepting preorders, otherwise chances are you're going to be waiting a while.  I don't think we'll see any more until the Trumpeter ships their Nov releases. It costs too much to ship small quantities, distributors try to fill whole containers to get the best bang for their buck. I know I too would like a second one, to do in a heavily worn camo scheme. F-100 fever!

Hobby Boss has a F100D and an F100F comming out in December last I heard. Both are 1/48th kits

gary

Is that before or after they release the 1/32 A-6E they promised back in December of '06?

Actually I suppose you have a better chance on the D & F models since they released the C...

HawkeyeHobbies wrote:

Someone will probably start pumping out accessories, especially since Trump is likely to release an F model as well.

For now, the Eduard 48183 F-100C/D PE set should be directly applicable. But it is kind of hard to find. I would hope that Eduard will have a Color Zoom set soon. Most of the decals sheets are the the F-100D. I have 2 from Superscale for the D, but cannot find a C decal yet.

I walked into my LHS in St. Charles, MO and found 2 of the 1/48 Trumpeter kits on the shelf. They have one left when I walked out. As expected, I paid less than mail order.

I have one Monogram F-100D finished (#5416), one in the stash (#5471, High Tech kit with a small PE fret). The Trumpeter is my third Super Sabre kit.

The worst problem of the Monogram kit is the mis-match at the aft fuselage. Still have a visible gap at the finished one. The Trumpeter should not have this problem. My first Monogram was build with the Pretty-Penny scheme.

I had a little fun trying to figure out how to build with the canopy open. Unfortunately, the new Trumpeter instruction has no such "open canopy" step either. Worst, it shows glueing Part# A3 to A2, very wrong for open canopy.

Michael Benolkin's F-100 site is very useful.

It's HERE!!!

At first look I am pleased with what is in the box. The obvious thing that modelers will scream for first for this kit from the aftermarket is a seamless intake trunk. The second...a better cockpit.

The color insert for painting and decal is NICE! Detail seems to be rather good and assembly straight forward. The wings are separte pieces so I'll have to see if they line up and hold their position well. This will make handling during painting much easier too.

I'll start on her tonight and should have her ready for paint before the weekend ends unless something keeps me away from the bench. It will be a perfect excuse to leave the lights off upstairs and hind in the basement during the Haloween festivities tomorrow evening.

I wish the tail assembly was a separate piece...molded to the fuselage. Too bad they didn't follow Tamiya's lead on this idea like they did with their kits.

HawkeyeHobbies wrote:

I'll start on her tonight

I can't wait to hear from you again, Gerald. Not the pictures, which I always assume to be sharp. I will like to hear your do's and don't's when putting it together. All the tips and tricks will be greatly appreciated.

Legend has a cockpit set for the 100D. What do you think of it?

Here is a teaser shot of my progress thus far. I will do a blog article about the whole build. I did this "hot" section in about 30 minutes. I still need to do a bit more work to get the detail to pop more but that will happen when I do the rest of the model.

HawkeyeHobbies wrote:

Here is a teaser shot of my progress thus far. I will do a blog article about the whole build. I did this "hot" section in about 30 minutes. I still need to do a bit more work to get the detail to pop more but that will happen when I do the rest of the model.

Let's see how it compares with the real thing.

I'll tweak the finish a bit more as the project evolves.

Here is where I ended last night, the wings are just test fitted. Leaving the wings off until later makes painting and decaling the fuselage much easier. I've started the shining up process. I'll be adding some other colors to highlight other panels.

Looks great so far Gerald.  Keep up the excellent work.

Regards,  Rick

HawkeyeHobbies wrote:

Here is a teaser shot of my progress thus far. I will do a blog article about the whole build. I did this "hot" section in about 30 minutes. I still need to do a bit more work to get the detail to pop more but that will happen when I do the rest of the model.

Here is Gerald's step-by-step guide. (I doubt that I can duplicate this in 30 minutes.) It sure is a great tip.

He also started a Building Journal.

Great progress on this one, Gerald! Thanks for the tip on mixing the blue enamel into the SNJ, I wasn't aware that you could get away with that.

The NMF and Orange scheme is really stunning, even with the model still in pieces. Kinda makes me want to break out an F-104 and build a test sled...

Kevin

MIflyer wrote:

Great progress on this one, Gerald! Thanks for the tip on mixing the blue enamel into the SNJ, I wasn't aware that you could get away with that. The NMF and Orange scheme is really stunning, even with the model still in pieces. Kinda makes me want to break out an F-104 and build a test sled... Kevin

Go for it!  Another subject with a hot tail!

HawkeyeHobbies wrote:

MIflyer wrote: Great progress on this one, Gerald! Thanks for the tip on mixing the blue enamel into the SNJ, I wasn't aware that you could get away with that. The NMF and Orange scheme is really stunning, even with the model still in pieces. Kinda makes me want to break out an F-104 and build a test sled... Kevin Go for it!  Another subject with a hot tail!

Yessir! I have a couple of Starfighters in the stash, and the whole time I was reading your "hot metal" tutorial I was thinking, "Yep, I'm swiping this for my F-104s."

Kevin