Does anybody make a Fancy-Doo-Dah decal sheet for a 1/32 scale F-104 for any of the fancy "Last Starfighter" schemes?
Thanks, John Bronk
Does anybody make a Fancy-Doo-Dah decal sheet for a 1/32 scale F-104 for any of the fancy "Last Starfighter" schemes?
Thanks, John Bronk
If we're talking Italian F-104S....
Cutting Edge had a really nice one for the 96' Tiger Meet....
You'll want to check out Tauro Decals, they have a few commemorative schemes- mostly in 48th. A few in 32, but nothing recent.
Sat
Do you mean a scheme in particular? I.e. Tauromodel has issued some decal sheets for Italian A.F. fancy F-104, but here the "Last Starfighter" has still to come ;-)
-- Luca Beato -
here the "Last Starfighter" has still to come ;-)
Luca:
This thread has struck a nerve with me. You may be the one person on this newsgroup with the answer. As far as I know, no one has actually released an accurate kit for an F-104S. All Hasegawa did was re=pop their G with new decals. Has anyone done an accurate F-104S. More to the point, are there any accurate drawings/publications that would tell a Modeler exactly what the changes were so he could use sheet styrene and Milli-Putt to make an S from a G? I always thought that the S with those extra missile rails was the meanest looking of all the Starfighters.
Bill Shuey
but here the "Last Starfighter" has still to come ;-)
Esci did something similar with their F-104Gs. I'd like to know just how much difference there was externally, too. I know about the extra missile rails and the additional ventral fins but was there any other noticable difference?
Bill Banaszak
There are no accurate F-104S kits at all, in any scale. I repost an excerpt from a very old message of mine (1998) about the main external differences between F-104G and F-104S:
Today I'd list also the engine nozzle feathers as a difference. Search the message ID " snipped-for-privacy@news.iol.it" on google groups to get the full original thread.
I'll ask to some friends modellers far more informed on this fetish subject, both for suggestions and for publications, BTW you see that apart from the tail fins and the obvious Sparrow's fittings, differences are rather small. What scale are you interested in?
-- Luca Beato -
Bill Shuey
Luca Beato wrote:
external differences between F-104G and F-104S:
the full original thread.
both for suggestions and for publications, BTW you see that apart from the tail fins and the obvious Sparrow's fittings, differences are rather small.
external differences between F-104G and F-104S:
get the full original thread.
both for suggestions and for publications, BTW you see that apart from the tail fins and the obvious Sparrow's fittings, differences are rather small.
If you reshape the ventral fin, the 1/72nd Hasegawa F-104S kit is pretty close. It has the larger intakes.
Cheers,
Andre
Have a look at
HTH
That CE conversion set isn't correct either. The ventral fin is still wrong! HTH
The CE conversion is only wrong in that it does nothing about the ventral fin. Otherwise, the CE set is excellent. I simply reshaped the leading edge of the kit part. Took all of a minute or two.
Starfighters.
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