Kit Collect-aire Models
Kit no 3209 Limited edition Kit no 86
Price $275.00US
Kit decals
Review & photos Darren Melia
Republic F105D Thunderchief, after market items
include PJ Productions figure. Cutting Edge 750lb GP Bombs, Plenty of Reheat
photo etched console parts. I’ve been modeling for 30years and a thud
fan for about the same length of time. Imagine my excitement when I learned
about the Collect-Aire 1/32 scale F-105.
Having built many thuds in 72nd & 48th Scale,
I could not wait to see this Aircraft in the larger scale.
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The kit over all looks to be quite accurate and
that what I go by, if the measurement don’t quite add up then so be it, but
the kit looked good, Plenty of hollowed out light weight resin pieces, lots of
nice flash on every part, quite pleased I thought, until a former friend told he
about Trumpeter pending releases, Never mind, back to the job in hand.
I was most disappointed with the interior of the
cockpit as this comprised of 4-5 slab sides resin pieces with lots of bubble
holes where I think knobs and buttons are supposed to be.
I was expecting the cockpit to be Aires, Cutting
Edge, that kind of thing. But hey it a thud and its big!
Construction took, and I can honestly say “construction”
because it was my first complete resin kit, ”ssshhhhh and my last!” about
five months of evenings, average shift of three hours a night. And the odd hours
overtime at weekends.
The kit canopy is a bit misty in places, the
white metal undercarriage legs are different length, but the decals are
excellent with three options, these are overall silver lacquer early versions
and the “My Karma European lizard scheme, but because thuds were best known
dropping iron from the skies of Vietnam, the south east Asia or SEA scheme won.
The Polish glider was the personal mount of major Don Kutyna of the 355th
tactical fighter wing from Takhli Thailand 1970.
The Access ladder was scratch built the consol
placards are reheat, and the 750’s are cutting edge, the Figure is PJ
production with a reshaped sand bag for a Chute!
Please Trumpeter let us have a Twin Tub, or F105
F/G
Darren
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