I built this for the Cold War GB, and as a proof for the markings of the 2nd FIS that we plan to put on the F-101B at the McClellan museum. The same airplane, 57-427 was also a subject of the Monogram kit, but in the markings it had with the Texas ANG unit. It was a fair amount of work as there is a lot of detail to the kit, and I added to it with custom decals, a Legend avionics bay, and a very useful Eduard PE set with nearly 100 pieces, as usual I did not use them all, only about 2/3 of them. Also, it ends up a pretty fair sized model, easily twice the size of the F-86 sitting next to it in the display case.
The base it is sitting on was made for me about 12 years ago by James Steel, who was an artist of a modeler and taught me more than I will know about the art of it. The loose ground equipment except for the tractor is from the very old 1/49 scale Revell F-102A kit with all the ground equipment, and was also built by James. I love that B-4 stand. I have another of those kits, but I just can't bring myself to take it out of the partitions that are still in the box. That would be sacrilege of the highest sort. There was no box with the first F-102 kit, actually it was the second. I built the first one I had when it was new in about 1958. I dimly recall painting deicer boots on the F-102. Or was that an A-4 I did that to?
On to the pictures. There are build pictures and notes on my website, here:
http://yolo.net/~jeaton/mymodels/f101/1f101/1f101.htm
