Mig88 Posted December 28, 2020 Share Posted December 28, 2020 Here is the second of a trio of two-seater Starfighters I have been working on the past month-and-a-half. It's F-104F Starfighter BB+362 (s/n 59-4996, c/n 5049) of WaSLw 10 (Waffenschule der Luftwaffe), Luftwaffe, at Jever AB, German Federal Republic, in the late 1960s from Mark I's reboxing of the Revell kit. Only 30 of this variant were built, all exclusively for Germany. The F-104F was basically an F-104D with the F-104G's uprated engine. Like the F-104D, it had no radar and no weapons capability and was exclusively for pilot training. Apart from sanding down the main undercarriage door bulges as indicated in the instructions, I made some more modifications that Mark I missed. The arrestor hook was removed as this variant didn't have it. The tip tanks had symmetrical horizontal fins so I reshaped the inner ones to match the outer ones. No underwing stores were carried either. One good addition by Mark I was the Lockheed-type ejection seats. Although simplified, they do the part being very different from the Martin-Baker seats that come in the original moulds. The kit was fully painted and varnished with brush. This scheme required more work but the end result was worth it. Thanks for looking Miguel 16 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mike Posted December 28, 2020 Share Posted December 28, 2020 Nice (tiny) work Miguel I deduplicated the server hiccup copy, merging the threads to keep the view tally honest, which seems to have worked 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mig88 Posted December 28, 2020 Author Share Posted December 28, 2020 2 hours ago, Mike said: Nice (tiny) work Miguel I deduplicated the server hiccup copy, merging the threads to keep the view tally honest, which seems to have worked Thank you Mike! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
swralph Posted December 29, 2020 Share Posted December 29, 2020 Nice one Miguel.😀 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
F-32 Posted December 29, 2020 Share Posted December 29, 2020 Very smart, I'm actually finishing one of these at the moment! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mig88 Posted December 29, 2020 Author Share Posted December 29, 2020 10 hours ago, swralph said: Nice one Miguel.😀 Thanks! 6 hours ago, F-32 said: Very smart, I'm actually finishing one of these at the moment! Thanks! Looking forward to seeing yours. I'll be posting the third one shortly. Miguel 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hamiltonian Posted December 29, 2020 Share Posted December 29, 2020 That's a beauty. I had to scroll back up to check that it was actually 1:144 scale! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mig88 Posted December 30, 2020 Author Share Posted December 30, 2020 14 hours ago, Hamiltonian said: That's a beauty. I had to scroll back up to check that it was actually 1:144 scale! 😉 Thank you very much! Miguel Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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