Randy
Modifications to Monogram kit for CF-101?
Thu Jun 19 15:03:51 2003
I’ve got the recently-reissued Monogram F-101 and want to build it as a pre-unification Royal Canadian Air Force bird (I’ve got the excellent decals from Flightdecs that allow one to build almost any RCAF/CF Voodoo and plenty of reference photos). What modifications, if any, would need to be made to the kit beyond shaving/sawing the IR sensor off the nose and removing the formation light strips?
Sean Bratton, Voodoo nut
CF-101
Thu Jun 19 15:31:32 2003
For a CF-101B, leave off the air scoop on the lower port side of the nose – all CF-101’s had an NACA style flush scoop at this location. Only 101067 (the Electric Jet) had this scoop.
As you mentioned, sand off the slime lights. Again, only 101067 had these. The IR sensor comes off an early B, too.
If you’re going to do an armed a/c, don’t use the kit supplied AIM-4’s as I these are the wrong type for an RCAF/CAF Voodoo (I think they’re “F’s”). Use the AIM-9D’s out of a Hasegawa weapons set or the AIR-2 Genies supplied in the kit are applicable as well.
The CF-101F’s were dual control models (used partly for training) so these would have sticks and throttles in the rear cockpit, as well as a second splitter plate in the intake.
If you’re really looking to do it up Eduard has just released a PE sheet for the Monogram kit and the Black Box cockpit is REAL nice if you can find one.
Big Al
CF-101
Thu Jun 19 18:20:39 2003
Sean just about stated all of the changes except one, and that is that Canadian Voodoo’s had an ID light installed in the port fuselage under the canopy rail. Just look at some photos and you will see it.
Sean Bratton
CF-101 Addendum for Randy and Tom
Tue Jun 24 08:26:03 2003
I finally pulled out the references last night to get the scoop (!) on the differences between the early and late batches of CF-101s. Of course the easiest way to tell them apart externally is that the first batch did not have the IR sensor and the second batch did. The first batch was fitted with an IFR probe in the nose but these were never used in RCAF service – seeing as how they didn’t have anything capable of passing gas at that time.
As I mentioned the primary cooling intake on the lower left side of the nose is the other major difference (if you want to call it ‘major’). This is part #67, found in step 6B of the recent re-issue of the Monogram 48th scale kit.
The early batch DID have this scoop installed, the second batch did not, they were fitted with an NACA style flush inlet shaped much like the indentation on the existing nose half. The Electric Jet (101067) was fitted with this scoop as well. These are the main exterior physical differences, aside from paint and markings of course.
The CF-101F was the dual control version of the ‘B’ model and had the second stick and throttle in the rear cockpit. The rear cockpit also had a limited set of primary flight instruments installed. The front pit of the F was different from the B in having the pilot’s radar scope centrally mounted and raised resulting in a ‘barrel’ running down the centre of the front coaming.
Only the second batch of F’s had the dual splitter plates fitted and the only reason I can find for these is to ‘improve airflow’ (Random Thoughts 16/4). This was a USAF-intitiated mod and was completed before the two batches were traded. The F’s also had a second TACAN antennae – again, nothing major.
[The EF-101] 101067 is a total oddball, with all sorts of interesting lumps, bumps, pods and warts.
The RT I mentioned is a Chapter special on the Voodoo and is worth picking up if you can find it.
(thanks to Brett Green for permission)
