Subject: Re: Gallery Article - F-101C Voodoo
From: "Steve Bamford ARC" <[email-masked]>
To: "Aibara Darius @Consult" <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 14 Mar 2004 10:42:06 -0800

Hi Darius,
Thanks for sending in your F-101 article.  I'm catching up on a backlog of
e-mails....sorry for the slow response.  I'll e-mail you when your article
goes on ARC.

Steve Bamford
Aircraft Resource Center
http://www.aircraftresourcecenter.com

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----- Original Message -----
From: "Aibara Darius @Consult" <[email-masked]>
To: <[email-masked]>
Sent: Monday, February 23, 2004 12:19 AM
Subject: Gallery Article - F-101C Voodoo

Gallery Template #05
"1:48 Monogram/C&H F-101C Voodoo"
by "Darius Aibara"
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Having built the 1:48 Monogram F-101B a few years ago and a 1:72 Revell
F-101C way back in the early 1970s I had always wanted to have a single seat
Voodoo in my collection - it looks meaner and sleeker than the two-seater.
I had seen reviews of C&H conversion sets in the UK model press but there
were no UK stockists.  Last year a thread in the ARC forum had a link to
Victory Models website with some C&H sets available.  I bought four on the
spot!!!  A few weeks later they arrived in the UK (many thanks to Paul
Cotcher).
With the C&H set you get a new one piece hollow resin nose, vac-formed
canopy, resin wheels, u/c doors burner cans, rear under fuselage spine and
NACA style air intakes to replace the F-101B types that come with the
Monogram kit.  You also get a very nice decal sheet with markings for a 81st
TFW, 91st TFS aircraft stationed at RAF Bentwaters in the 1960s.  The
instructions are clear with illustrations explaining how best to carve up
the Monogram kit.  That I duly did - the worst part was removing the moulded
on slime lights without obliterating the raised panel line detail.  I masked
around the area to be removed with a couple of layers of masking tape and
sanded away the raised lights - the masking tape was somewhat torn but did
the job of protecting the surrounding detail.  The Monogram forward cockpit
and nose gear well were fixed to the resin nose and the whole grafted onto
the main fuselage with cyano glue and Humbrol filler.
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The Monogram kit was not 100% complete as the starboard intake splitter
plate part was missing and the tail of port fuselage half had a deep rut
diagonally across it as if it had been seared with a hot poker.  Some
filling and sanding was required before this part was ready for use.   The
completed fuselage (including a starboard splitter plate made form plastic
card) was spray primed with Halfords Grey primer and then various panels
masked before a spraying a couple of coats of Halfords Nissan Silver.
With the masks removed the whole was polished using SNJ powder to give a
multi-toned bare metal finish - not as good as Alclad but the best I can
achieve without an airbrush.  The painting complete the decals were applied
and then the undercarriage was attached.  Monogram's kits are usually well
engineered but the undercarriage on the F-101B kit is an exception.  The
nose gear needed to be chopped and re-assembled to fit properly and the main
gear retraction struts needed to be completely rebuilt.  There is no
positive location point for the main gear legs so inserted steel pins in
pre-drilled holes to reinforce the connection.
That done I was sufficiently inspired to scratch build a boarding ladder
using reference photos in an F-101 article in Wings of Fame Vol 1.   At some
point in the future I will attempt the C&H RF-101G/H conversion, but for now
I will try something a little less complicated!

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Photos and text © 2004 by "Darius Aibara"

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Regards

Darius Aibara
TPS Consult

Tel:  020 8256 4090
Fax: 020 8256 4082

www.tpsconsult.co.uk

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