Well, it seems like I was just here posting about my F-104 build. Oh wait, I was. No sooner than I'd completed the -104 was I embarking on a double build of the next aircraft in the Century Series, the F-105 Thunderchief. One is a 48th scale F-105D by Hobby Boss, and the other is this ancient 1/72nd kit by Monogram.
This is what came in the kit (primary parts).
I went into this build really wanting to just put it together, right out of the box, as I would have 40+ years ago when I first built this thing. The kit was molded in tan plastic and had been pre-painted with the green camouflage. The parts for the underside of the wings and associated parts were molded in gray. Notice the underside of the fuselage parts, though! Try as I might, I simply could not let that stand. I left as much of the original green paint as I could while putting down USAF Brown, a little darker green, and the underside gray.
This was a simple kit, as anyone who has built any of those old Monogram kits can attest. Very few parts. It went together easily. I did no weathering. The decals are from Kits-World featuring the "Cherry Girl" nose art. Now, I didn't take a close-up photo of that naked girl, but believe it or not, the naked girl is not the reason I chose those markings (the kit decals were 51 years old, and with my recent experience on the similarly aged F-101B Voodoo decals not working in any way, shape, or form, I decided early on to acquire an aftermarket decal sheet). The reason that I chose these markings was a historic incident with this particular aircraft, which on 3 June 1967 shot down a MiG-19. It was on that date that I was born.
I have already begun work on the bigger -105D that I'm doing for this series of builds, but it likely will not appear on this forum for many days.