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1/72 Academy F-89D - In Flight


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Looking through my stash I discovered I had this lil gem of a kit that had a Sharkmouth option on the kit decals. Not a lot to it, so I decided to add this one to the GB agenda.

The F-89 Scorpion gained a number of firsts in aviation history:

  • First jet aircraft designed from the start to be an all-weather interceptor
  • First aircraft to carry the Falcon guided missile operationally
  • First to achieve a hit on an airborne target using a Falcon w/ armed warhead
  • First aircraft to launch air-to-air weapon with live atomic warhead
  • First jet to land on a frozen sea
  • First aircraft designed to carry an all-rocket armament

The Scorpion was designed to be able to intercept Soviet piston-engined bombers in the class of the Tupolev Tu-4 aka Boeing B-29 Superfort, which explains the large amount of rockets carried on the wingtips.

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Been making some progress. New pilots have been recruited and should arrive in town here in the next few days. Those other shorties went back to their original aircraft!

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And here it is all finished up and in the air. This was only my second Academy kit I've ever done, and I don't remember having problems with the first one, but the decals on this one were HORRIBLE! No matter how many gallons of Micro Sol I put on them, the were completely unchanged. The only area this really bothered me was the sharkmouth decal because it covers such a large area. In the end, I guess it could've turned out worse though, but lesson learned, any future Academy kits will definitely be getting aftermarket decals.

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Sexy

How do you get chocolate foil to stick?

EASY, provided you've got the right stuff. I've found that Lindt Dark Chocolates (the balls :rolleyes:) work the best. They are the ones that come in a darkish blue wrapper. Just eat the chocolate, peel the foil from the plastic wrapper and burnish it down with something fairly soft, no harder than a wood craft stick. I like to use some sort of cuticle tool that came in the wife's stuff. It has a semi-hard rubber...thing... on one end and a point plastic tip on the other.

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EASY, provided you've got the right stuff. I've found that Lindt Dark Chocolates (the balls :rolleyes:) work the best. They are the ones that come in a darkish blue wrapper. Just eat the chocolate, peel the foil from the plastic wrapper and burnish it down with something fairly soft, no harder than a wood craft stick. I like to use some sort of cuticle tool that came in the wife's stuff. It has a semi-hard rubber...thing... on one end and a point plastic tip on the other.

So it sticks because of the chocolate residue?

Then you just clean it up?

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So it sticks because of the chocolate residue?

Then you just clean it up?

No, there's a type of "glue" that holds the foil to the plastic. It's kind of a very thin paste that sticks well to, well, our plastic canopies and kit parts. Once done, you remove the foil and wipe the residue off your canopy with a q-tip or paper towel.

BTW, I got a second at this years IPMS Seattle Spring show with this build! clap2.gif

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