Looking good Mark. Cockpit looks great in the fuselage.
Kinetic 1/48 f104g starfighter
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Great progress mark , lovely cockpit . Personally I would use the later Martin Baker seat as most european starfighters ended up being fitted with variants of these, plus the early Lockheed ( licensed from Stanley ) C2 had the messy arm restraint belts which the kit hasnt supplied . Cheers tony
Some more progress on this, fuselage not far away from seeing some paint and landing gear put together.
GREAT work mark its comin on an to me i always loved the starfighter as to me the plane just looks right an i love to see it in metal finish an us air force deacals
chris
chris
Loving it. Very SciFi aircraft is the starfighter. Almost straight out of Star wars…
Hi Mark
Instrument panel does look good. I can see why you're pleased with the seats :thumb2: Nice to see how well the fuselage halves have gone together.
Jim
Instrument panel does look good. I can see why you're pleased with the seats :thumb2: Nice to see how well the fuselage halves have gone together.
Jim
Thanks for your comments guys :thumb2:
Base colour on, next is start masking for the first lot of camo.
had already painted wheel bays but will do again as it's easier to paint them after everything else rather than trying to mask them.
It doesn't look like it but there is a lot of nice surface detail, can't see it in my rubbish pictures :rolling:
had already painted wheel bays but will do again as it's easier to paint them after everything else rather than trying to mask them.It doesn't look like it but there is a lot of nice surface detail, can't see it in my rubbish pictures :rolling:
Looking good mark , careful with that pitot ! Cheers tony
Second colour on, the green next and time to start masking the canopy, got a mask set to make life easier.
Cracking work so far Mark.
Looking really nice Mark, can't wait to get going on mine now.
The moment of truth was pulling the tape off,the paint stayed on as did all the bits of plastic !! Result ! but the green is on and as this is my third ever camo attempt I'm pretty pleased with how it's turned out, a few details to paint then a light gloss for decals. On to painting the canopy and wheel flaps next.
G
Wow that tape really worked Mark, looks very clean.
Always nice to read that a kit is good and things are right, to many times we read of poor instructions, design and manufacturing.
Always nice to read that a kit is good and things are right, to many times we read of poor instructions, design and manufacturing.
Fantastic paint job Mark. As you say pulling that tape off is a heart stopping moment.....
Thanks John, yes it's a lovely kit to build, paint instructions could be a little better but that's the only negative point.
Thanks Andrew, big sigh of relief when the last bit came off.
G
Looks very good, the camo is nice and sharp and straight, so very well done for your third ever attempt at camouflage 
Excellent job Mark. Camo looks top class.
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