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Let Let Let - Warplanes => Aircraft Modeling => Topic started by: Jicehem on December 04, 2018, 03:33:54 PM

Title: McDonnell F-88 Voodoo, Lindberg, 1/48, 1955
Post by: Jicehem on December 04, 2018, 03:33:54 PM
Hello mates :-salut

A Lindberg kit of a very few-known airplane, the McDonnell F-88 Voodoo.
Studied as as an escort-fighter, the F-88 was cancelled abandonned the USAF abandonned the escort-fighter... But the formula will be retained later for the second plane named Voodoo, the F-101.
This kit is already to be seen in the 1955 catalog of Lindberg. Its assembly is near perfect ans surface detail is excellent. Cockpit includes a beautiful pilot in anti-G and high altitude suit abd a beautiful ejection seat.
The kit was built almost oob with actual decals which are of high quality. I suppressed only the anemometric nose boom replaced by a more classic pitot tube under the nose :
The first box with artwork by Ray Gaedke representing the first prototype without post-combustion but with six 20 mm guns :
(https://i58.servimg.com/u/f58/10/07/63/16/mcdonn10.jpg) (https://servimg.com/view/10076316/12036)

I represented the second prototype s/n 46-526 :
(https://i58.servimg.com/u/f58/10/07/63/16/mc_don11.jpg) (https://servimg.com/view/10076316/12030)

(https://i58.servimg.com/u/f58/10/07/63/16/mc_don13.jpg) (https://servimg.com/view/10076316/12032)

(https://i58.servimg.com/u/f58/10/07/63/16/mc_don14.jpg) (https://servimg.com/view/10076316/12033)

(https://i58.servimg.com/u/f58/10/07/63/16/mc_don15.jpg) (https://servimg.com/view/10076316/12034)

(https://i58.servimg.com/u/f58/10/07/63/16/mc_don12.jpg) (https://servimg.com/view/10076316/12031)

(https://i58.servimg.com/u/f58/10/07/63/16/mc_don16.jpg) (https://servimg.com/view/10076316/12035)

Jicéhem :-wave

 
Title: Re: McDonnell F-88 Voodoo, Lindberg, 1/48, 1955
Post by: No.1 on December 05, 2018, 10:37:48 AM
Production of Lindberg is amazing, they even make subject as this rare prototype!
Title: Re: McDonnell F-88 Voodoo, Lindberg, 1/48, 1955
Post by: modellius on December 08, 2018, 01:46:11 PM
looks superb, like the metal finish !