My kit-building enthusiasm has had a bit of an upsurge of late. The latest off the workbench is this Airfix F-80C Shooting Star.
Built straight out of the box, it represents an aircraft of 36th Fighter Bomber Squadron, 8th Fighter Bomber Wing, US Air Force in South Korea, 1951.
I chose this paint scheme because both of the build videos I've seen were of the other optional scheme and I wanted something a bit different. In addition, the other scheme has a painted blue nose heading into a decal side stripe and both builders found it impossible to accurately match paint colour to decal colour.
The kit was originally tooled in 1973 and it's now available in the Vintage Classics range from Airfix. The detail isn't bad for a kit of its age. I added masking-tape seatbelts and painted in cockpit detail but to be honest, you can't see much through the bubble canopy.
The modern Cartograf decals are superb and went on with virtually no problems. I did leave off a few tiny stencils on the underside.
6 comments:
Lovely work on the old kit:)! I did ponder having a display cabinet for my new games room, but there simply is not the space, unless I go for something rather small...
Thanks Steve!
Excellent work as always. I have have them dotted around the house on different shelves. Be nice to get them displayed together one day. Used to hang them from the ceiling in my younger days 👍
Cheers Richard!
There's something very aesthetically pleasing about the designs of the early jets. That looks very nice Mr C.
You're right there Andy. Also they're relatively small so displaying them is a bit easier.
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