Finally finished the Monogram F84-F Thunderstreak. Overall, the kit was a pleasure to build.
Well, almost finished, as I'm uploading the pictures I noticed I forgot to paint the wing lights!
The build was straight forward, a little bit of seam work and scribing to replaced the raised panel lines. The decals were a bit old and were difficult to use. They are very thin and wanted to curl up on itself. They reminded me of that thin inner membrane in onions.
I broke the landing gear off a couple times, and I think they are still off a bit. Lesson learned: use 5 minute epoxy for landing gear. Plastic cement dissolves too much and leaves a weak joint, superglue does not allow enough working time.
I probably put too much weight in the nose, it feels really heavy.
Almost had a mishap late in the build. I put drying WIP things on a high cabinet to keep them out of the way. One night I heard something hit the floor, thought it was the cat knocking my son's legos off the lego table. She likes to knock them off and bat them around the floor. The next day I found she knocked a F4D Skyray down, luckily it only broke into three pieces. The heavy weight of the Thunderstreak saved it from certain doom.
My anti-aircraft cat:
I'm going to finish up a few projects, then start on the next Revell/Monogram build.