Starfighter TF-104G 1/48 Hasegawa

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Really nice work on the cockpit Derek. It is going to be a cracker.

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Thanks for your comments chaps, a bit of a delay in painting. The kit calls for the underside to be FS36320 (dark compass ghost grey in lifecolor), but from the photo's I have from 1967, the underside was much lighter. Looking up the internet last night, I found reference from ex luftwaffe technicians, that in or around 1967 the underside was painted RAL 9006 = white aluminium. This paint weathered fairly quickly to a light grey. This would tie in with my photo's and recollections. So I am experiment with paint to arrive at a light grey with a hit of metallic. Will post details of my final brew. Cheers.

p.s. Tony does the seats qualify me for becoming a junior s**t house rat??

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Thanks for your comments chaps, a bit of a delay in painting. The kit calls for the underside to be FS36320 (dark compass ghost grey in lifecolor), but from the photo's I have from 1967, the underside was much lighter. Looking up the internet last night, I found reference from ex luftwaffe technicians, that in or around 1967 the underside was painted RAL 9006 = white aluminium. This paint weathered fairly quickly to a light grey. This would tie in with my photo's and recollections. So I am experiment with paint to arrive at a light grey with a hit of metallic. Will post details of my final brew. Cheers.p.s. Tony does the seats qualify me for becoming a junior s**t house rat??

Definitely derek, well have you doing a 1/144 fighter yet!!! ps wait till you see the cats , all will be revealed soon . cheers tony

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Hi Tony, 1/144 scale!!! wooo I am still a junior, got to finish my apprenticeship still.

Anyway the story continues. Got all of the airbrushing finished. For the underside I settled on a mix of Tamiya paints as follows.

2-parts XF-2 (flat white)

2-parts XF-19 (sky grey)

1-part XF-16 (flat aluminium) quite pleased with it, its a pale grey with a small fleck of aluminium.

For the topsides base coat I used the kit recommendation of GSI aqueous hobby color H53 (neutral grey). After masking again used the kit recommendation GSI H64 (RMI71 dark green). After more masking used GSI H74 (duck egg green on the radome. As I had some Tamiya Orange X-6 used this instead of the GSI one. For the patch on top of the radome mixed approx 50/50 Tamiya XF-65 (field grey) and XF-2 (flat white).

First time I have used GSI acrylic, excellent paint like Tamiya but finish is a sheen, and much more scratch resistant than Tamiya. Will remove all the masking tape tomorrow once I have had the operation to remove the airbrush from my fingers.

Cheers

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This is it with all the masking removed except the cockpit where there is some additional colours to be added. Will coat the model in micro gloss, add the decals and some light weathering as I have only seen clean Luftwaffe Starfighters, and add the wheels, exhaust nozzle and some nav lights. So this will be my last 'under construction' posting for this model. Will post some photos of the finished aircraft in the 'Aircraft Photo' section in a few days. Overall one of the best detailed kits I have bought to date. Highly recommended for those who have a couple of kits under their belt. Almost no flash or seam lines, the kit can be made without any filler if you take care and obviously do a dry fit on everything. Hope this posting has been useful. Cheers Derek

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