franky boy Posted April 12, 2019 Share Posted April 12, 2019 Hi all Im planning on building this Starfighter below for the Lockheed gb. Does anyone have an idea of the colours? Does the Japanese airforce have colour standards such fs or bs? The underside looks similar to RAF pru blue? Thanks James Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Junchan Posted April 13, 2019 Share Posted April 13, 2019 (edited) This photo was taken by a good friend of mine, "nabe3" during the annual Fighter Meet in 1982. According to the photo caption by him, these F-104Js were painted in grey two-tone overall. I'm not sure but they could be Dark Grey (1) (#3706) and Light Grey (2) (#3702). Here's the link to his photo page. http://nabe3saviation.web.fc2.com/aF1042j.html The Ministry of Defense Japan has its own color standard NDS Z 8201E for the equipment and a PDF version can be downloaded from the link below. https://www.mod.go.jp/atla/nds/Z/Z8201E.pdf I will ask nabe3 to post here more information on Komatsu F-104J. Jun in Tokyo https://www.flickr.com/photos/horaburo/albums Edited April 13, 2019 by Junchan 2 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JeffreyK Posted April 13, 2019 Share Posted April 13, 2019 TwoBobs did a decal sheet with F-104J's in two-tone camo ( https://www.twobobs.net/contents/en-us/p141.html ) . I don't have it and it's OOP, but you may be able to get one second hand or ask around for people to identify the colour call outs. J 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
franky boy Posted April 13, 2019 Author Share Posted April 13, 2019 Thanks Jun Thats great info. I'll have a look around for those colours. I'm thinking Mr Hobby must do them? I hope your friend doesn't mind me using his photo. Regards James Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Red Dot Posted April 13, 2019 Share Posted April 13, 2019 (edited) Don't hold your breath on getting the colours. Just about the only ones available off the shelf are the two blues of Mitsubishi F-2s and the Mitsubishi F-1 greens and browns. To be honest you could easily use FS colours simply matching to photos and as long as they look close, no one will notice. Jun - i may meet you in May at Shizuoka as i will be with Akira on the Silver Wings table. It would be nice to get together. Andy Edited April 13, 2019 by Red Dot 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
franky boy Posted April 13, 2019 Author Share Posted April 13, 2019 1 hour ago, Red Dot said: Don't hold your breath on getting the colours. Just about the only ones available off the shelf are the two blues of Mitsubishi F-2s and the Mitsubishi F-1 greens and browns. To be honest you could easily use FS colours simply matching to photos and as long as they look close, no one will notice. Jun - i may meet you in May at Shizuoka as i will be with Akira on the Silver Wings table. It would be nice to get together. Andy TBH I was expecting to have to do a bit of mixing but that’s fine. James Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nabe3 Posted April 14, 2019 Share Posted April 14, 2019 Hi James, I took the F-104J photo back in 1982 and I cannot remember the exact camouflage colours in comparison to other low-vis greys on military a/c. The photo shows a little too pinkish due to the poor developping process of the Kodachrome KM film. According to Hasegawa's instruction sheet for this particular F-104J kit, it says. . . . . . Darker grey; mixture of Gunze Mr.Color #308(FS36375) x 6 plus #305(FS36118) x 4. Lighter Grey; mixture of Gunze Mr.Color #308(FS36375) x 9 plus #305(FS36118) x 1. I hope this will help you to some extent. Hi Andy, You surely will meet Jun-san at Hora-Buro's monthly meeting to be held at Harajyuku/Tokyo on 18MAY19, as he is a Top Dog of Hora-Buro. Hi Jeffrey, Looking forward to seeing you at Shizuoka Hobby Show. Please join our big dinner in Shizuoka on 10/11MAY19 with your wife. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
franky boy Posted April 14, 2019 Author Share Posted April 14, 2019 Hi nabe Thanks so much for the reply. I’ll follow those colour mixes. One last question. Can you remember what the underside colour is? Regards James Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nabe3 Posted April 14, 2019 Share Posted April 14, 2019 Hi James, The underside colour is the same as the upper surface colour. Also the camouflage pattern of the undersurface is basically the as the upperside pattern. Akira 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Red Dot Posted April 14, 2019 Share Posted April 14, 2019 hi Akira, Excellent news all round. 24 days to go!! Andy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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