1/48 Tamiya F-84G Thunderjet

TIGRI BIANCHE

by Busolini Massimo

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  Italy National Day 2008 

 

REPUBLIC Co. is the company famous for producing the sturdy fighter bombers such as the P-47 Thunderbolt in WWII and F-105 Thunderchief in the Vietnam war.  The F-84 Thunderjet is the first practical jet developed and produced by Republic Co.      Its style had the image from the former reciprocating engine aircraft with the straight wings.  The exhaust system was the center engine layout which took the air from the nose of the aircraft.  It was emitted a jet of liquid fuel with the air from the air  intake through the engine placed in the center of the fuselage.

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The first trial F-84 aircraft succeeded in the maiden flight in Feb. 1946, then the second prototype established the new max speed record of an American aircraft, 978km/h in Sept. 1946.

The G type was introduced into Korean war and had a hard dog fight with the new and powerful jet, Mig.  However the G type played an important role as an ground attacking because of its special features such as the long cruising range.   

The 1/48 scale TAMIYA kit is a stupendous kit, in negative very elegant, and from the excellent quality.  Despite these good qualities, I have wanted to improve it, using the CMK resin set n° 4023 for the cockpit and I very much appreciated the control surfaces that were included in this set.  I finally purchased the limited edition CUTTING EDGE decal sheet n° CED48110, to represent a military F-84G of the aeronautics Italian,  more precisely her acrobatic of the TIGRI BIANCHE  part of the 51° wing, working from the Aviano airport in 1955-1956.  The painting once performed, naturally required me to ruin the paint to get that weathered chipped peeling paint look.  I then  gave it a shiny varnishfinish, and then I have painted certain panels with opaque varnish so there would ba a difference from one panel to another.        

I hope you like....

Busolini 

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Photos and text © by Busolini Massimo