F-106 Schemes?

Your description of watching the F-106 take off reminds me of watching an F-4 take off on slightly fogging morning just as the dawn was breaking. The AB lite up and was all you could make out of the aircraft as it thundered down the runway. Awesome lighting effect with the sun backlighting the aircraft and the burners glowing casting a flame which extended beyond its tail.

I'd have to dig through my decal binders to see what number MS assigned that sheet. 

The Dart has always been one of my favorites. I used to live with in five miles of McClellan AFB in Sacramento California and that was where the depot level maintenance was performed. I used to go out and sit at the end of the runway when I would get out of school and not come in until it was too dark too see. One of my favorite memories is of a Dart launching out of McClellan and passing overhead in full A/B just after sunset. Light enough to see what it was, but dark enough to really accent the flames coming out of the pipe. Wish I'd had a decent camera back then but my little Kodak 110 wasn't up to it.

Microscale makes (Made?) a sheet with the Montanna ANG Darts on it in 1/48th. I've got one in my stash along with one with California ANG Darts on it. One of these days I plan on trying to do a kit for each and every squadron to have flown the Dart.

Found a couple of the pictures I had.

I call this "Changing of the Guard". Several fly bys were done as part of the arrival of the MANG's first F-16s.

 

Their two seater, which spent most of it's time deployed in the southern US (as did their F-16) was a wild ride! I have the vacform conversion for this aircraft...if anyone is interested.

There are pictures of it on th web, I have pictures from when I was stationed out there of both the F-106 and F-16s. I have pictures of the changeover ceremony when both flew various formations together. It was a touching day.

I'm working on this right now, the F-106 is already underway as well.

 

Do a search on McChord Air Museum they have pictures. 

Fantacmet, I see that you've picked the Montana Guard scheme, but just for future reference there's an article in the November 2004 Finescale where Pat Hawkey does the scheme of an early production F-106 that broke the world speed record. It's mostly day-glo orange and really slick looking.

This is a total "what-if" here, but the USAF did include a paint guide for camouflaging the F-106 in SEA colors if the need were to ever come up. No F-106 is known to have actually flown in these colors.

 

 

 

 

Hi Mike,

Check out this link: http://www.f-106deltadart.com/186fis.htm

It shows the aircraft from the 186th FIS (Montana's "Big Sky" ANG squadron) 

Another Mike

Well for family reasons, I think I am gonna go with the Montana ANG scheme.  Anyone know of anyplace has good pics of it?  A specific aircraft would be good so I can replicate a specific aircraft.  I have no idea what the Montana ANG scheme looks like, but wife's family both sides is from Montana.

 

Michael

I built two of them, one of them a two-seater. I did both of them with markings of the 102nd FIS of the Mass, Air National Guard which is based at Otis AFB. I am a retired newspaper reporter/photographer. I used this scheme because many years ago I was invited to go on a mission with the 102nd. I made a model of the F-106B with I flew in for myself, I also made a model of the F-106 for the wing commander who gave me the opportunity to fly with the unit. Let me digress for a moment.
Two outstanding things about the mission: We did a straight up take off pilling nine Gs; and we broke the sound barrier at 100 feet off the ocean to intercept a "unknown" jet entering US air space.

chopperfan wrote:

I had been listening to some music earlier that had a low recording volume and forgot I had the volume on my speakers up!!!

Hehe... the Wolf strikes again...

 

Actually, I forgot to warn folks of that... D'oH!

 

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DANG, Steve!!!

I went to Pat's World. I had been listening to some music earlier that had a low recording volume and forgot I had the volume on my speakers up!!! Liked to have fell out of my chair!!!!

Other than that, it looks like it could be very interesting.

 

Here's one for 'ya...

USAF photo

 

That's the 159th FIS Bicentennial jet. Combine the noise from that J75 and the noise from that paint scheme, and you wind up with the loudest F-106 there ever was...

Microscale (Superscale) made a sheet with these markings in a couple different scales, I believe. Although it's probably going to be difficult to find these days.

 

I rather like the Montana markings too, although I'm a NY kinda guy and if I ever build an F-106, it'll probably be a 49th FIS jet...

USAF photo (TSgt Dennis Plummer, photog) 

 

They're not especially flashy markings, but they're NY markings. Here's a groovy shot of a couple of 49th jets at William Tell '84...

USAF photo (TSgt Edward Boyce, photog) 

 

I'm sure some of you have come across this site before, but if not, check it out...

Pat's World of the F-106 Delta Dart (EDIT: Make sure your speakers are not turned up all the way...)

 

The two shots of the 49th FIS Darts I posted came from DVIC. There's plenty more F-106 photos to be found there, just do a search for 'F-106'... 

 

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The  Montana one sounds like a good one.  Wife is from Montana.  Her dad was Montana NG, not ANG, but he still might appreciate it.  Brain I was hearing that there was a member from Camas.  I went up and met the member in Vancouver.  bought a kit from him.  Shared some of our work and such.

Regarding fit, they seem to have tweaked the mold.  It's not terrible.  Definately not as bad as the fit of their A10 which I am also working on.

Michael

I particularly like the Montana ANG scheme. You can find images of it at McChordairmuseum.org otherwise Google it, there are a number of F-106 pictures out there.

 

fantacmet wrote:

Thanks for the heads up.  I will do some test fitting before I start gluing things together.  Interesting the flaps are molded in the down position.  Anyway here is that scheme I was talking about. http://www.cals.lib.ar.us/miller/images/CON_F106.jpg

Howdy, neighbor!  (I'm across the river in Camas, WA) Test fitting for this beast is a must, but the end results are very well worth it!  I have seen that all red color scheme, and I belive it was a target drone scheme.  Try s Google of F-106 for a ton of info on one of the truly great aircraft of the Century series!

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Brian 

There are two pretty informative build reviews on Modelling Madness for the Monogram F-106.  It's not an easy build but when you get done you have a model of the bestest fighter out there, just ask me!

There are some F-106 photos here, on my web site:

http://yolo.net/~jeaton/century/106/106.htm

The best single source available that I have for color schemes on the F-106 can be found in Wings of Fame, Volume 12.  They are all there in side profile drawings.

Thanks for the heads up.  I will do some test fitting before I start gluing things together.  Interesting the flaps are molded in the down position.  Anyway here is that scheme I was talking about.

http://www.cals.lib.ar.us/miller/images/CON_F106.jpg

During the building you will find a fit issue on the left rear fuselage.  It will take some work to get the side to look right.  The kit has always had this problem.  The other things I remember are where the tail and undersides of the wings fit together. 

The lights on the wings and tail are best done by drilling all the way through and filling the hole with epoxy, Elmers glue, or something similar.  One thing to watch is that the wing lights have half covers on them. 

Most of the color schemes come from the squadron markings.  The Montana ANG was given special permission to have their aircraft interiors a light Russian blue.  Look over the available decal sheets and see what other markings are out there. 

The scheme you might ave seen could have been from when it was used as a target during the Willial Tell competitions. 

The 106 was also used as a chase plane for the B-1

NASA used some of the "B" models at Langley AFB for studies on lightning strikes.  A.F. TO. 1-1-4 shows a Vietnam cammo pattern but it was never applied as far as I know.  There was a push to get the 106 into combat in SEA but the idea was rejected due to its nuclear capabilities.