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Article by Patrick Spitaels |
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Here are the shots
of my latest job...the wonderful F-104C at 1/48 scale from
HASEGAWA. I bought the kit during the US Nats at Dallas...it was so great
to have
this brand new kit, and when I opened the box I could see what I had for my
money !
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This kit is without
problems, crisp scribing, great details, from the gear to the cockpit, it's
great. I made some modifications- I added some parts of the photoetched
sheet
from Eduard, normally for the MONOGRAM kit, but I just used the parts for the
seat and rails of the canopy. In the cockpit I added some little stuff and used
the decals for the instrument panel, it looks really great - just drop in some
FUTURE for the instruments.
I also decided to open a part of the gun bay, using
primarily the part from the MONOGRAM kit. I replaced the barrels
with plastic tubes and added some little stuff too. Second, and the most
difficult, I decided to open the engine bay, which is usually opened when on the
ground. So I built part of the engine....(looks like !) and the
opened panel! Those parts are in fact really difficult to build, because
it's so tricky and wired, so I just tried to make it look correct. For the
paint, I used the TESTOR metallizer, first a coat of MAGNESIUM and then
ALUMINUM, some darker shades at the back and it's done. Thank the motortool for
the polishing !
I used the decals
from the box, it looks like the most colorful STARFIGHTER. Just one
problem- take care if you use MICRO SOL, HASEGAWA decals don't really like
that! Hope you'll like the shots. Have a great time building this
wonderful jet, I'm waiting for the next version to build a Belgian one!
Patrick Spitaels
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