F-104 Starfighter Gallery - Poll Open

[Enzo the Magnificent]

Post your completed builds here. No more than five photos per entry.

Please do not post comments in this thread. All comments should go in the subject's build thread

[theplasticsurgeon]

Tim's Starfighter - MFG-2 Marineflieger.  1/72 Hasegawa kit.

 

 

 

 

Edited December 26, 2017 by theplasticsurgeon
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[Peter Marshall]

Well it's done - not sure what to make of this kit, it's full of 'niggles' and silly errors by Italeri but it does end up quite nice. If it was Revell pricing it would be great, but it's Tamiya pricing so feels overpriced for what you get, especially with the errors.

Peter

[Lex77]

1/48 Hasegawa TF-104G Italian Air Force

Kit decals (except for the roundels) and Eduard mask used.

 

Build thread

 

DSC_9439 by Lex de Kort, on Flickr

 

DSC_9436 by Lex de Kort, on Flickr

 

DSC_9435 by Lex de Kort, on Flickr

 

DSC_9432 by Lex de Kort, on Flickr

 

DSC_9433 by Lex de Kort, on Flickr

 

[Navy Bird]

Here is my effort for the F-104 Group Build. This is the 1:72 scale Hasegawa kit with some aftermarket resin from CMK, a turned brass nose probe from Master, and NASA chase plane markings from Rocketeer Decals (the NMF, white, yellow, and fluorescent red-orange areas are painted on).

 

The model was built as a tribute to Joe Walker, who was one of the "Right Stuff" test pilots at Edwards during the 50s and 60s. Joe flew just about every rocket powered X plane there was back then, including several flights in the X-15 that reached altitudes high enough to earn him his astronaut wings. Joe unfortunately lost his life flying this F-104 in a mid-air collision with the XB-70 Valkyrie bomber. This occurred during, of all things, an unauthorised marketing photo shoot for General Electric. In an effort to maintain a tight formation with the XB-70 immediately to his port side, he encountered severe turbulence from the vortices off the Valkyrie's wingtip, which was a little-understood phenomenon at the time. The turbulence was so severe that it flipped the F-104 onto its back, and sent it rolling to port and into one of the vertical fins of the XB-70. Joe was killed instantly. He had radioed in when he first felt the turbulence, saying that he didn't support this mission as it had no scientific value. True words from a true hero. The XB-70 was also lost that day, and only one of its two crew members was able to eject. And all because the marketing guys wanted a nice picture for a shareholder's report.

 

Build thread here.

 

 

 

 

 

Reach for the stars!

 

 

Cheers,

Bill

[MarkSH]

For the F-104 Lockheed Starfighter STGB here is my finished (I really don't want to add any more decals) Lockheed NF-104 A Starfighter Aerospace Trainer for which I used the Italeri 1/72 F-104 A/C kit as a basis for my conversion.

Scratch built modifications include the housing for the rocket motor below the tail and the extended spine which accommodated the motor fuel feed lines and throttle control linkages, Extended wingtips and RCS ports top and bottom, extended air intake coves, larger area vertical tail and a lengthened nose sensor boom. Additionally I have modified an astronaut from the Airfix Lunar Module for the Pilot. The model is finished in Bare Metal Foil and Sainsbury's very best basics thin sandwich foil! The specific Aircraft markings and badges were home printed.  I've mounted the finished model on an acrylic rod set into a cheap MDF plinth sprayed gloss black with a name plate because I've always wanted a nice desktop model.

For reference I used the excellent and informative Air Force Legends Number 204 Lockheed NF-104A Aerospace Trainer booklet by Scott Landis.

The NF-104A was intended to help familiarise Pilots with the rigours of low lift/high drag flight profiles and the required reaction control systems for high altitude flight.

Would I foil an another model? Yes, but not at 1/72 although I do have a couple of 1/48 kits that would look great in foiled NMF.

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Mike Mcellaney]

Italeri 1/32 F-104G finished as one from the HAF

Overall I enjoyed the build on this kit fit of the kit was good but did require a lot of thinking ahead 

Decals from Icarus

Paint Gunze Aqueous

Base from Allwood Products with a Costal Kit printed base glued on

 

 

 

 

 

 

[modelling minion]

Hasegawa 1/48 F-104J 202 Hikotai JASDF.

Paint: Gunze Aqueous

Decals: Kit

Finished in one of many colourful schemes used by the JASDF for their annual Air Combat Meets.

 

 

 

 

 

Thanks for looking.

 

Craig.

[PhantomBigStu]

Italeri F-104G Luftwaffe, painted with a mix of paints, revell aqua providing the silver for the tanks and pylons, black and the basalt grey. Xtracrylix olive drab stood in for the olivegreen, with Vallejo color for the radome grey and missle white, and the main silver being from a halfords rattle can. Finished with Winsor and Newton Matt Varnish 

 

 

[CliffB]

1/100 scale, Ben Hobby F-104J (CliffB's Blue one)

 

Built OOB and finished using Tamiya paints and Alclad.  The build thread is here.

 

 

 

 

 

 

[CliffB]

1/100 scale, Ben Hobby F-104J (CliffB's Black one)

 

Built OOB and finished using Tamiya paints and Alclad.  The build thread is here.

 

 

 

 

[Tim Moff]

Kit: 1/48 Monogram F104G Starfighter

 

Subject: F104G Starfighter 26+47 JaboG 34 Memmingen, 1987 

 

Details: Modelled as per reference pics from interweb and decal sheet.

  

Misc: Mr Paint Paints, Humbrol paints, Mr Color Paints, various kit and other decal sheets kindly donated by @RMP2

 

 

 

WIP Link: Here

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Tim Moff]

Kit: 1/72 ESCI F104G Starfighter

 

Subject: F104G Starfighter 12883 439 Sqn, 1st Wing,Canadian Armed forces, RAF Woodbridege Tiger Meet 1969

 

Details: Modelled as per reference pics from interweb and decal sheet.

  

Misc: Mr Paint Paints, Humbrol paints, Mr Color Paints.

 

 

 

WIP Link: Here

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[1903flight]

Dutch RF-104 by flight1903.   The kit was the Hasegawa 1/72 F-104G/S. Decals from an old Modeldecals set that I have had for more years than I remember. Although D-8143 is not on sheet, I used the numbers to make up the serial.

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Giorgio N]

(R)F-104G 12232 FN-T,  331 Sqn. Royal Norwegian Air Force (Luftforsvaret)

Hasegawa 1/72 kit with Pavla resin seat and Flightline resin exhaust

Vingtor decals

 

 

 

 

 

 

Build thread here:

 

 

 

 

 

[Jb65rams]

ESCI 1/12 F-104 Cockpit

 

Build log can be found here.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Pinback]

ZELL F -104 G  Lockheed test pilot Eldon "Ed' Brown-  Edwards AFB 1963

 

Italeri 1/72 F-104 G

Scratchbuilt base, launch ramp and booster/booster frame

Decals created and from spares box

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Edited February 4, 2018 by Pinback
typo

[TEMPESTMK5]

                                         CF 104 1st Wing RCAF Marville France 1965

 

Hasegawa 1/72 kit with Quicboost resin seat , Eduard PE set and Belcherbits decals

Build thread here

http://www.britmodeller.com/forums/index.php?/topic/235031540-cf-104-1st-wing-rcaf-marville-france-1965/

 

 

 

Thank for this very interesting GB 

 

Patrice

 

 

[exdraken]

Spanish Airforce F-104G /  C.8

104 Escuadron, Torrejon / Madrid

 

 Hasegawa / Eduard Limited Edition 1/48

• Decals: Series Españolas
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Expal/ Mk83 bombs

Metal pitot

 

WIP thread

 

 

Finished more or less for a week now, but for a lack of sunshine and time , I was only able to take some better photos today!....

 

so here you are, was a GREAT GB, thanks a lot for all your kind comments and fantastic build threads!!

 

with the current Ala 12 emblem - no le busques tres pies......

 

 

 

 

 

thanks and muchas gracias!!

 

until next time, Werner