The Thunderjet was
the Portuguese Air Force first jet fighter and Portugal received as many
as 125 F-84´s in the 1950´s through MDAP. These were used by two fighter
squadrons: 20th and 21st FS at Air Base 2 in Ota.(near Lisbon)
When war broke out
in the Portuguese colonies in 1961, 25 Thunderjets were sent to Air
Base 9 in Luanda and these formed the 93rd FS where they were used in
the heavy fighting in Angola and Mozambique. These were the last
operational Thunderjets in the world.
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My kit de picts a
F-84G of the 21st FS "Barretes" in 1956 and i used the Tamiya kit and
Eduard´s zoom fret. I used Ferrario Artist acrilic silver paint spray can for
the paint job, which I used for the first time and I liked the result and Humbrol
paints.
Decals came from the
Santacruz s heet, but
I didn´t use the portuguese crosses because they seemed a
little oversized,so I used ones from "Esquadrão 33" .
"168" came
from USAF surplus stocks with us serial nr 51-16648 and later was used in Angola
until 1970 when it was phased out.
Hope you like it.
Fernando
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