OH! Do that VooDoo you do!
Ace 1/72 scale F-101B Voodoo
This model depicts F-101B Voodoo assigned to the first unit
to employ the F-101B: the 60th Fighter Interceptor Squadron circa 1965.
This is the Ace 1/72 scale kit from Korea with instructions
in Korean and absolutely no multilingual labeling. Clearly, it was intended
for the domestic market. This is the same tooling as the Revell kit; it even
has the Revell logo on the inside of the fuselage.
I replaced the seats with True Detail resin ones, and dressed up the cockpit with an Airways photo-etch set. The kit canopy actuator arm part was grossly out of scale, so I modified it using a straight pin. The decals are from the SSI 72-307 sheet. The blue & white stripe/ bird decal started to come apart in the water despite several clear coats; I guess the clear coats keep them from completely shredding. Regardless, after I pieced them all back together, it doesn’t look quite right…..sigh.
I painted it with Model Master enamels and used Alclad II for the bare metal areas and landing gear. Since this A/C is the epitome of the Cold War struggle, I just had to mount the Genie nuclear rockets on the model.
I replaced the seats with True Detail resin ones, and dressed up the cockpit with an Airways photo-etch set. The kit canopy actuator arm part was grossly out of scale, so I modified it using a straight pin. The decals are from the SSI 72-307 sheet. The blue & white stripe/ bird decal started to come apart in the water despite several clear coats; I guess the clear coats keep them from completely shredding. Regardless, after I pieced them all back together, it doesn’t look quite right…..sigh.
I painted it with Model Master enamels and used Alclad II for the bare metal areas and landing gear. Since this A/C is the epitome of the Cold War struggle, I just had to mount the Genie nuclear rockets on the model.
Oh yeah, I sanded off the slime lights.
Scramble!!
RJ
Scramble!!
RJ
What Alclad colors did you use? I have an RF-101B in the stash and I really like the way your exhaust area turned out.
ReplyDeleteIICR, I used duraluminum (ACL-102) in the long exhaust tube & added a little MM Metalizer Magnesium to darken the AB cans. I used powered graphite from a soft lead pencil to darken the various sections of the exhaust. Using a pointer sharpener, I made a pile of graphite powder then used took a bit of paper towel held in locking tweezers to rub on the powder. The more graphite you apply the darker AND shiner it gets. I varied the hue up & down the exhaust. That sounds much harder than it really. HTH!
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