This is coming along very well Louis. Always an interesting story behind the F-84. Like many of the early jets in the 50's found many NATO operators. So you can actually build a few with different schemes, weapon configurations. And they also was a Photo recon variant that is well known. Always liked the coke bottle air frame the F-84 sported. I did start on the Monogram kit, never finished it. I do know it was to the point of getting it painted. And you know it may even packed up somewhere. Still love the multi build approach. Glad your back at it.

Robert, @roofrat
Thanks for stopping by ! It's good to hear from you. Please stand by, as I have another update coming right up...

Wow, what a great progress and gorgeous looks, my friend @lgardner!
Those panels look totally amazing, they look exactly like at the photo!
Looking forward to see the wings done!

Simply amazing foil work!

Greetings everyone, and thank you all for the kind words.
Spiros, @fiveten
Tom C. @tcinla
Robert @roofrat
George @gblair

Soon I promise to make a better reply to your latest comments, but tonight I am pressed for time. Meanwhile I made a little more progress tonight.

I was able to cover the tail feathers with various shades of Bare Metal Foil. Here are a few pictures showing the elevator / horizontal stabilizers are now done and permanently installed.

I also added a small section of foil on the vertical fin, in preparation of the partial serial numbers that will be added later. This is how it appears to have been done on most of the F-84's serving in this unit. Too bad the paint line between the red and white colors have shown through. Hopefully this will not be too noticeable once I add the numbers on.

As usual, comments are encouraged... I'm working hard to get this one done by November 10th.

Looking great indeed, my friend @lgardner!

I don't want to add to your work load, but how about a Thunderbird Thunderjet! with that same amazing foil work.

Tom, @tcinla
Spiros, @fiveten
George, @gblair
Thanks gentlemen for the kind words. I sincerely appreciate the compliments.

George,
I think you would not have any problems using foil. The nice thing is that you can tone down the shine of it, simply by spraying it with a flat clear coat. It's a great way to replicate a bare metal finish, because it's actually metal (to steal a line from their advertising).
Please follow along with tonight's update.

Tonight I was able to get the wings completed. I had to cut off the refueling probes located at the nose end of the wing tanks. This area was then sanded smooth, and repainted using Model Master Metallizer from a "rattle can". I noticed the planes from his unit in Korea in the pictures didn't have the probes present. So off they went !

Once this paint had dried sufficiently, I went to work covering the wings with foil. In several hours they were done.

Now all of the foil work is done on the F-84E.

Here are some picture of the foiled wings. Starting with the undersides first.

I flipped the wings over to show how they look from the top. The foil has a grain to it. You can use the same color, and achieve a different look, simply by changing the orientation by rotating the foil 90 degrees. You can see what I mean here, It shows up very well in this next picture.




I took these pictures from different angles to show how the light reflects from the foil, showing the different colors.

If things go as planned, tomorrow I will install the wings on the fuselage. The initial mock up shows they should fit nicely.

As always, comments are encouraged.