1/72 Monogram F-105G

by Gil Gregg (aka "dutycat")

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This build was the companion to the F-107B.  They were built alongside of each other.  The Monogram 1/72 F-105 really doesn't need much in the way of an introduction.  It is an old kit. Some of the pieces are a little tempermental, but it builds up pretty well.  The kit can probably still be found on if one looks hard enough.  But at this point, with the Trumpeter new tool Thunderchiefs coming out soon, why bother?

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A year or so ago, a very close friend of mine asked me to build this kit for him.  That's never happened to you before, has it?  I thought so.  Anyway, since I was already working on the F-107 as a SEA "what if" project, and the two aircraft are related, I thought it would be appropriate build them together.

The build itself was pretty straightforward, but not accomplished without few minor difficulties.  The biggest issue was the quality of the old Monogram decals.  The images were not printed precisely.  The stars and bars were mis-aligned to the point of unusable and the WW tailcode looked like two white blocks with little slits in them.  Not good.  After finding virtually no F-105 decals on the net, a fellow ARCer came to the rescue with a better printed stock decal sheet and some fragments from several old Microscale F-105D sheets.  I ended up getting the WW out of the spares box.  The kit decals did not want to adhere, so I forced them to with Future.  Weathering was done with watercolor washes over gloss after the decaling phase, and pastels after flatcoating. 

Gil 

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Photos and text © by Gil Gregg