qn30jEkPz7 Posted October 30, 2017 Share Posted October 30, 2017 (edited) I know this doesn’t start till next weekend but want to leave this here to remind me Exhibit A - an elderly 2nd hand Hasegawa F-104 Exhibit B - the somewhat basic innards plus a rogue additional set of HobbyBoss decals Edited February 9, 2018 by LostCosmonauts Abject failure 9 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
qn30jEkPz7 Posted January 4, 2018 Author Share Posted January 4, 2018 (edited) About time I made a start on this. Aiming for if not a silk purse then something at least a bit less sow earish I’m not a fan of the supplied seat or pilot Reshaping assisted by some scrap sheet, sprue and foil from the Christmas bottle of port we have With some side panels, paint, a couple of decals and obscured by a visor that might just about pass Edited January 4, 2018 by LostCosmonauts 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MarkSH Posted January 4, 2018 Share Posted January 4, 2018 Ah! one of the reasons I look forward to the Christmas bottle of Port! excellent scratch building and use of the foil. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CliffB Posted January 6, 2018 Share Posted January 6, 2018 It's nice to see this one underway. Presumably this is a Hasegawa product that pre-dates their current 1/72 offerings - do you have any idea how old the kit is? Cliff 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Navy Bird Posted January 7, 2018 Share Posted January 7, 2018 18 hours ago, CliffB said: It's nice to see this one underway. Presumably this is a Hasegawa product that pre-dates their current 1/72 offerings - do you have any idea how old the kit is? That boxing looks early to mi-seventies, but I think the tool originates in the early sixties. This may have been one that was also sold by Frog, as they had a relationship back then. Cheers, Bill 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
qn30jEkPz7 Posted January 8, 2018 Author Share Posted January 8, 2018 On 06/01/2018 at 19:53, CliffB said: It's nice to see this one underway. Presumably this is a Hasegawa product that pre-dates their current 1/72 offerings - do you have any idea how old the kit is? Cliff Afraid not - it has a red “C 3” label on it if that’s any help in identifying the vintage but I can’t find a year on the box, instructions, decals or sprues. It’s very basic with airbrakes and wheel wells just open voids (requiring some boxing in and reworking along the way) @Navy Bird‘s reckoning is probably about right given the aging of the paper & card 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Navy Bird Posted January 8, 2018 Share Posted January 8, 2018 I had a look over on Scalemates, and the C3 boxing of this kit dates to 1980. Here's a link, you can see the lineage back to the original tool in 1963: https://www.scalemates.com/kits/191206-hasegawa-c3-starfighter-lockheed-f-104j Cheers, Bill 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
qn30jEkPz7 Posted January 14, 2018 Author Share Posted January 14, 2018 I’m not sure what the smallest quantum of progress is (at the risk of straying into politics I’ll name the unit the Davis-Barnier) 1 Davis-Barnier forward - fuselage tacked together and some wheel wells added where there was just interior void previously 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
exdraken Posted January 21, 2018 Share Posted January 21, 2018 At least we see something resembling a104 already 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
qn30jEkPz7 Posted January 21, 2018 Author Share Posted January 21, 2018 Cheers @exdraken - hopefully getting steadily more F-104like now that the stubs where wings would normally go have been added Now to prime/fill/sand/repeat for a couple of iterations 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
qn30jEkPz7 Posted January 30, 2018 Author Share Posted January 30, 2018 This is destined for the shelf of doom. It can *#%& all the way off and when it gets there it should keep on going. Having seen good efforts from others I decided to have a go at applying foil and start with some paint Then a bit more Canopy framing moulding is way too thick and there is just something looks wrong about the whole thing. I decided to press on with the decals but despite care and liquid decal film they’ve turned into so much mush. Utterly unusable & I really can’t be bothered with buying nice new decals for this dog of a model so... abandoning it 2 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MarkSH Posted January 30, 2018 Share Posted January 30, 2018 There were several times when I was foiling my take on the 104 that I wondered why the hell I'd started, but it's a useful technique, maybe use the model as a test bed for future reference. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
qn30jEkPz7 Posted January 30, 2018 Author Share Posted January 30, 2018 Cheers @MarkSH - I’ll likely stash it out of sight for a while and then it can become a test piece/paint mule pending a decision to bite the bullet and get new decals or strip it back and start over with a new scheme 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
qn30jEkPz7 Posted January 30, 2018 Author Share Posted January 30, 2018 (edited) Be longer forlorn... I have a cunning plan. It won’t be accurate but I think I have enough random spare decals to represent (in the loosest sense) a USAF Q-104 target drone e.g. http://www.916-starfighter.de/916starfighter/pics/camo/55-2957 QF-104A 52957 AFSC Eglin 1964.jpg Due to a weekend away I’ll still miss the deadline but it might save the model from the scrapheap Edited February 8, 2018 by LostCosmonauts 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CliffB Posted February 1, 2018 Share Posted February 1, 2018 That looks like a good solution - keep us posted! Cliff 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
qn30jEkPz7 Posted February 7, 2018 Author Share Posted February 7, 2018 Ok, let’s try this again Paint stripped off, tail and fuselage modified to an F-104A and reprimed 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
qn30jEkPz7 Posted February 8, 2018 Author Share Posted February 8, 2018 Some progress in painting - touching up still to do but I’m already happier with it in this guise than I was in the Japanese finish I’d originally been intending 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
qn30jEkPz7 Posted February 8, 2018 Author Share Posted February 8, 2018 Decals in progress - only minor SNAFUs so far A bit of artistic license and sheer improvisation is paying dividends 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
qn30jEkPz7 Posted February 9, 2018 Author Share Posted February 9, 2018 Since I missed the gallery the RFI up at http://www.britmodeller.com/forums/index.php?/topic/235033624-qf-104a/ 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
F-32 Posted May 16, 2018 Share Posted May 16, 2018 Nice early model - looks great in that scheme 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marcin Wojciechowski Posted June 7, 2019 Share Posted June 7, 2019 I like this model. Very good job! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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