Paul Boyer

Beautiful!

Not an expert, but my guess is that it was a factory applied standard, and that it was gradually overpainted with routine maintenance.

I mentioned this same problem last year and there never seemed to be a solution.🤔

Only six small decals on this one, but they came from the Caracal U-2 sheet. Academy's old U-2C:

!!! Hope you can scale that one to 1/72 as well!!!

Again, no F/A-18 kit needs nose weight.

Ooooh, nice!

I'm not a fan of drawings when it comes to accuracy. I shy away from Aviation News, the folks whose drawings brought us the shortened Italeri B-58 Hustler. Don't get me started . . . .

The Osprey book on RF-8s over Cuba and Vietnam has very good looking drawings on all RF-8 variants.

I chop off the wall from each fuselage half and fashion a 0.010" sheet into a half tube and glue it inside the top of the opened nose. This half tube then dives down under the cockpit and looks like the intake duct. You can't see much farther, so it doesn't really have to lead anywhere. attaching the front of the intake hides the front edge of the half tube.

My recent 1/72 "Misty FAC" F-100F. Caracal decals on the AMT/Esci kit.

Dark metal.😊

Yeah, but he was talking about a NON CAG bird.

Cut Then Add has also recently done this one (No. 34).

Microscale re-did the VF-84 flamey sheet in 1/72 scale, this time adding the "flaming eyeball" but the flame area is about ½" too long in the front. https://www.microscale.com/Merchant2/merchant.mvc?Session_ID=bf20041d86abacac8c946bd9d65f84fb&Screen=PROD&Product_Code=AC72-0055&Store_Code=MD&search=F-8+Crusader&offset=&filter_cat=&PowerSearch_Begin_Only=&sort=&range_low=&range_high= But it can be made to look OK (my Academy model).

Modedecal from England did it in 1/72 back in 1971 or thereabouts. Unobtanium now:

The very first editing I did at FineScale Modeler was Bo Bosanski's article on his 1/72 scale B-50 conversion. He took the engine nacelles and fin from a RAREplanes vac KC-97 and grafted them onto an Airfix B-29. That was in December of 1982, coming up on 40 years ago! Man, I'm getting old!

Hobbycraft Canada packaged the original Korean-made 1/144 kits of the B-58, B-47, and a B-36. Academy eventually obtained the molds, but I don't think they were the originators. Minicraft used to be in a partnership with Academy, but that ended back in the 90s, IIRC. But old molds never die. Minicraft sold to new owners back in the oughts (again IIRC), and continued with some of the Academy kits and made their own line, principally 1/144 airliners and related military aircraft. I don't think they ever made it to a B-50, although some of the parts from the Boeing Stratocruiser kit could have be

Is there a 1/144 scale B-50?🧐

Beautiful!

Oh goody!😃

I think if I am reading it right, the added parts will work but the direction and location of the parts is unclear. I'm finding that more and more in kits these days - errors in the instructions. Things like numbers switched around or the part is turned around in the illustration. I'm looking forward to the Osprey COD. I'm going to do some surgery to it to show it all folded and tucked so it can join my other folded CODs in the collection.

Thanks for that!

Perhaps I'm used to building limited-run kits like Sword, Special Hobby, Valom, and Roden, but I didn't have much trouble with the Twogar kits that I built. I think the nose wheel is too small, and I replaced it on one of the two models. I made the trainer using Caracal decals, and I made the Marine FastFAC out of the box:

Yes. Hobbycraft Canada's original kit was made in Korea. Academy is a Korean company. Wolfpack is a Korean company. Rebadging plastic kits has been going on since the 1950s all over the world. It's what helps keep the hobby (and the industries) alive!