of bringing to market an all-new
RF-84F in 1/48 scale. A few timely
emails to Baris Tansoy, owner of
Tan Model (in this article shortened
to Tan), and to SAMi led to each
agreeing for me to have an advance
of the kit for a “First Look” article.
The February 2016 issue of SAMi
featured my First Look article
about the RF-84F, Kit #2201, and
subsequently, a “Quick Build” of
the 2201 Tan RF-84F, by Michael
Chilestone, was featured in
the July 2016 SAMi. I then
proceeded to build the kit
I received out of the box(OOB), and, in general, found my
experience to be just as Michael
found. In short, a great kit, albeit
with a few issues with the kit
and a few instruction errors.
I, along with others, provided
our findings to Tan, and they
shortly gave notice that they were
making improvements to the kit
and correcting the instruction
errors. But wait, there’s more! An
upgraded kit, styled as #2201-1,
was in due course released.
To set the revised kit apart from
the initial release, the box featured
new artwork, and included a newdecal sheet with four additional
schemes compared to the original
release. The most notable addition
for me was a scheme for an RF-
84F in service in Norway. Even
better, just as I was commencing
the build, Vingtor decals released
Sheet 48-123 with several more
schemes for Norwegian RFs, which
made up my mind as to the scheme
my model was going to have.ON WITH THE BUILD
Decisions, decisions. This kit offers
many options: canopy closed or
open; camera bay covers; whether
to fit the cameras in the bays or
pose them outside; camera port
glazing closed or open; whether
to open the nose glazing, which
is moulded closed; and, of course,
which ferry tank options to use.
My plan from the start was to openGONE
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