1/72 ESCI Armée de l’Air F-100D

by David Fredericks

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Picked up at a swap meet, this 1/72nd scale North American F100D was made up from the old Esci kit #9042. I made it straight out of the box, deciding to finish it in the colours of the Armée de l’Air (French Air Force) to add to my collection of aircraft used by the French military since the end of WW2. The kit came with decal options to make an aircraft of either the French or Turkish Air Forces.

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A straight forward kit to build, the only additions were in the form of some detail to the cockpit and the drilling out of the nose intake so that it didn’t appear to be blocked! Challenges came with trying to replicate the different metallic effects at the rear of the fuselage and overcoming crumbling decals, caused obviously by the period of time that the kit had sat in its box before I picked it up at the swap meet. This decal problem also necessitated my having to hand paint the two red warning stripes around the rear fuselage.

All up, and enjoyable kit to make.

David

Photos and text © by David Fredericks