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Subject (TGM): Children & animals; Girls; Easter cards; Sheep; Black sheep; Eggs; Pharmaceutical industry; Drugstores; Pharmacists; Perfume stores; Perfumes; Dressing & grooming equipment;
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Subject (TGM): Coffee industry; Animals; Deer; Recipes; Trees; Tree limbs;
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Subject (TGM): Tomatoes; Vegetables; Fruit; Truck farming; Gardening; Gardens; Farm produce; Caricatures; Men; Humorous pictures; Seed trade; Seeds;
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Subject (TGM): Corsets; Lingerie; Clothing & dress; Clothing industry; Angels; Cupids; Testimonials;
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Title: Hotel Beach Party
Date of film: 1967
Physical descrip: color; sound; original length: 8:30
General note: Katherine Spaak, Kevin McCarthy, Gypsy Rose Lee, Henny Youngman, Richard Conte, Merle Oberon, columnist Virginia Graham, producer Wendel Mays, author Arthur Hailey, director Richard Kline and costume designer Edith Head all attend the press premiere of the film "Hotel." Everyone meets the reporters and photographers, eats and has a good time. A helicopter films from above. The location is Hotel Row, Miami Beach. Produced by Peter Barton Productions; sponsored by FDC in cooperation with Warner Bros.
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Format: Glass plate negative.
Rights Info: No known restrictions on publication.
Repository: Phillips Glass Plate Negative Collection, Powerhouse Museum www.powerhousemuseum.com/collection/database/collection=Phillips_Glass_Plate_Negative
Part Of: Powerhouse Museum Collection
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Persistent URL: http://www.powerhousemuseum.com/collection/database/?irn=385690
Acquisition credit line: Gift of the Estate of Raymond W Phillips, 2008
Persistent URL: digital.lib.muohio.edu/u?/tradecards,4073
Subject (TGM): Coffee industry; Landscape prints; Winter; Flowers; Birds;
Persistent URL: digital.lib.muohio.edu/u?/tradecards,3206
Subject (TGM): Angels; Cupids; Baking powder; Tree limbs; Flowers;
"I, Fidget, will attack my sister Mouse as she sleeps carelessly on the snow. I will vanquish her and ascend to my rightful position as top dog."
The problem is that it never takes more than two seconds for Mouse to get a firm hold on Fidget's face and shake her back to sanity.
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Subject (TGM): Pets; Birdcages; Birds; Patent medicines; Pharmacists; Drugstores;
There is no past that we can bring back by longing for it. There is only an eternally new now that builds and creates itself out of the Best as the past withdraws.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
www.youtube.com/watch?v=B-G272M77N0
2655=040512
Delano, Jack,, photographer.
On the coast of Puerto Rico?
1941 Dec.?
1 slide : color.
Notes:
Title from FSA or OWI agency caption.
Transfer from U.S. Office of War Information, 1944.
Subjects:
Bays
United States--Puerto Rico
Format: Slides--Color
Rights Info: No known restrictions on publication.
Repository: Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA, hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print
Part Of: Farm Security Administration - Office of War Information Collection 11671-25 (DLC) 93845501
General information about the FSA/OWI Color Photographs is available at hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.fsac
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Call Number: LC-USF35-408
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Title: Goodwood Plantation - Tallahassee
Date of film: ca. 1974
Physical descrip: B&W; silent; original length: 1.32
Local call number: V-251; AA536; V-251; S. 828
General note: Mr. Thomas Hood gives the history of Goodwood Plantation. The film shows the interior and exterior of the house. There is excellent footage of the fixtures and furniture. Produced by WFSU-TV.
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Local call number: N049170
Title: Judy Partin helping sister Kathy with her boots - Kissimmee
Date: 1953
Physical descrip: 1 photonegative - b&w - 5 x 4 in.
Series Title: General Collections
Repository: State Library and Archives of Florida
500 S. Bronough St., Tallahassee, FL, 32399-0250 USA, Contact: 850.245.6700, Archives@dos.myflorida.com
Persistent URL: digital.lib.muohio.edu/u?/tradecards,4610
Subject (TGM): Flowers; Plants; Pharmacists; Drugstores;
Digital ID: 416753. Ready for travel and going north, south and west. Immigrants with baggage lined up at teller's windows marked money exchange.. Levick, Edwin -- Photographer. 1902-1913
Notes: No. 7465.
Source: Photographs of Ellis Island, 1902-1913. (more info)
Repository: The New York Public Library. Photography Collection, Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs.
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My “Picture This” plant app reckons this is Dianthus sp. My partner picked it up from the otherwise unlabelled "Potted Colour” section at the hardware store 2 years ago when we just moved in, and planted it in the brickwork of our garden. Since then it has been subsumed by native violets until I remember to pull them away from the poor dear. Every year it puts on a nice display during Spring and Summer, despite the stiff competition all around it!
Have a blessed and peaceful Sunday, everyone.
Sorry I wasn't online much yesterday, gave my eyes a bit of a rest from looking at a computer screen.
Will catch up with you all soon!
Hoping to get out today and do some shooting.
No sun yet, but I will "be joyful in hope, patient in trouble, and persistent in prayer." =D (Roman 12: 12)
Photo details:
Canon 50D
Canon 50mm f1.4 lens
Sofa cushion as backdrop bokeh
Backlight of diffused sunlight from window
+ 430EX II Speedlite
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Subject (TGM): Coffee industry; Fairy tales; Children; Girls; Monsters;
Persistent URL: digital.lib.muohio.edu/u?/tradecards,3283
Subject (TGM): Flowers; Roses; Perfumes; Dressing & grooming equipment; Cosmetics & soap;
Persistent URL: digital.lib.muohio.edu/u?/tradecards,4652
Subject (TGM): Flowers; Roses; Artists' devices; Artists' materials; Paint industry; Paints & varnishes; Wallpapers; Wallpaper industry;
Fors church in Eskilstuna, originally built in the middle of the 11th century, on the initiative of the English monk Saint Eskil. A railway bridge and a footbridge across Eskilstuna river.
Fors kyrka i Eskilstuna, ursprungligen byggd i mitten av 1000-talet, på initiativ av den engelske munken Sankt Eskil. En järnvägsbro och en gångbro över Eskilstunaån.
Parish (socken): Eskilstuna
Province (landskap): Södermanland
Municipality (kommun): Eskilstuna
County (län): Södermanland
Photograph by: Unknown. The Magazine "Hemmet", 1900
Date: c. 1900
Format: Print
Persistent URL: kmb.raa.se/cocoon/bild/show-image.html?id=16000200093871
Persistent URL: digital.lib.muohio.edu/u?/tradecards,1718
Subject (TGM): Birds; Ravens; Crows; Parks; Lakes & ponds; Castles & palaces; Sailboats; Pharmacists; Drugstores; Patent medicines; Trademarks; Banners;
Persistent URL: www.floridamemory.com/items/show/296315
Title: Wakulla Springs Promotional Comedy
Date of film: ca. 1940
Physical descrip: color; silent; original length: 2:14
Local call number: V-259; BA436a
General note: This film appears to show the making of a short promotional comedy for Wakulla Springs. The film begins with shots of a motion picture cameraman along with two young men in bathing suits on one of the Wakulla Springs swimming platforms with swimmers on the beach behind them. The cameraman switches lenses and begins filming a comical fisherman in a small row boat. The fisherman reels in a fish and takes a drink from a beer or whiskey bottle. The cameraman appears onscreen again before the film cuts back to the fisherman, who is frustrated after reeling in a banana. The film cuts to a group of young men and women having an underwater picnic, complete with picnic basket, blanket, umbrella and campfire. One young man chops firewood. The film cuts to the fisherman, who turns in his boat to see smoke coming from the top of the water. Frightened, the fisherman quickly rows away. The film ends with title cards that read “Good-bye – see you in Florida” and “When in Florida don’t forget to go to Wakulla Springs and see ‘HENRY’ the famous pole vaulting fish.”
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Bain News Service,, publisher.
O'Neill
[between ca. 1920 and ca. 1925]
1 negative : glass ; 5 x 7 in. or smaller.
Notes:
Title from unverified data provided by the Bain News Service on the negatives or caption cards.
Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress).
Format: Glass negatives.
Rights Info: No known restrictions on publication. For more information, see George Grantham Bain Collection - Rights and Restrictions Information www.loc.gov/rr/print/res/274_bain.html
Repository: Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA, hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print
Part Of: Bain News Service photograph collection (DLC) 2005682517
General information about the George Grantham Bain Collection is available at hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.ggbain
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Call Number: LC-B2- 5542-3A
Persistent URL: digital.lib.muohio.edu/u?/tradecards,4634
Subject (TGM): Animals; Cats; Plants; Flowers; Insects; Dry goods stores;
Persistent
Persistence paid of finally today. After chasing swans all over the country for 6 weeks I finally got shots I liked today.
The wake to the right of the swan was caused by the other swans take off
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It's not yet 1:30 PM and this hawk has already visited our yard 3 times today in hopes of catching lunch.
Bain News Service,, publisher.
A. Stanley
[between ca. 1915 and ca. 1920]
1 negative : glass ; 5 x 7 in. or smaller.
Notes:
Title from unverified data provided by the Bain News Service on the negatives or caption cards.
Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress).
Format: Glass negatives.
Rights Info: No known restrictions on publication. For more information, see George Grantham Bain Collection - Rights and Restrictions Information www.loc.gov/rr/print/res/274_bain.html
Repository: Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA, hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print
Part Of: Bain News Service photograph collection (DLC) 2005682517
General information about the George Grantham Bain Collection is available at hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.ggbain
Higher resolution image is available (Persistent URL): hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/ggbain.31520
Call Number: LC-B2- 5316-11
Persistent URL: floridamemory.com/items/show/332515
Local call number: DC725941
Title: Customers in the Cedar Key Country Store.
Date: 1973
Physical descrip: 1 photoprint - b&w - 4 x 5 in.
Series Title: Department of Commerce Collection
Repository: State Library and Archives of Florida
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Format: Glass plate negative.
Rights Info: No known restrictions on publication.
Repository: Phillips Glass Plate Negative Collection, Powerhouse Museum www.powerhousemuseum.com/collection/database/collection=Phillips_Glass_Plate_Negative
Part Of: Powerhouse Museum Collection
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Persistent URL: http://www.powerhousemuseum.com/collection/database/?irn=386438
Acquisition credit line: Gift of the Estate of Raymond W Phillips, 2008
Persistent URL: digital.lib.muohio.edu/u?/tradecards,215
Subject (TGM): Sound equipment & supplies; Sound recording; Sound recordings; Phonographs; Phonograph industry;
Persistent URL: digital.lib.muohio.edu/u?/tradecards,4559
Subject (TGM): Flowers; Roses; Plants; Shoes; Boots; Insects; Bees; Furnishings; Clothing & dress;
The "Fountain of chronicles" in bronze at the Main Square, created in 1939 by the sculptor Nils Sjögren. The building to the right is the Cathedral School (after 1972 called Djäkneskolan).
Krönikebrunnen i brons på Stortorget, skapad 1939 av skulptören Nils Sjögren. Byggnaden till höger är Katedralskolan (efter 1972 kallad Djäkneskolan).
Parish (socken): Skara
Province (landskap): Västergötland
Municipality (kommun): Skara
County (län): Västra Götaland
Photograph by: Fredrik Bruno
Date: May 1948
Format: Colour slide
Persistent URL: kmb.raa.se/cocoon/bild/show-image.html?id=16001000239754
See previous image...........Mussenden Temple reflected in the beach after a heavy and persistent rainfall!
Persistent effort can yield weight loss results. The key, however, is to expend more energy than you take in! LOL! 😏 😀 😁
I had the priviledge of seeing and photographing this Barn Owl last evening while I was out with Beth, Terri and Don. Beth had seen the owl on this rock in the distance and thought she might have scared him off. But we were persistent. We waited patiently (okay maybe not so patiently) The owl was hunting in the field close by and flew back up onto the rock from the backside. He was quite surprised to see us there. He looked from Beth to me and decided it was best to fly off before we burned our shutter fingers off entirely.
Local call number: JJS0580
Title: Children watching calf branding at the Brighton Reservation
Date: October 19, 1949
Physical descrip: 1 transparency - col. - 4 x 5 in.
Series Title: Joseph Janney Steinmetz Collection
Repository: State Library and Archives of Florida, 500 S. Bronough St., Tallahassee, FL 32399-0250 USA. Contact: 850.245.6700. Archives@dos.myflorida.com
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Local call number: RC06829
Title: Ships silhouetted in the bay - Miami
Date: September 11, 1922
Physical descrip: 1 photoprint - b&w - 8 x 10 in.
Series Title: Reference Collection
Repository: State Library and Archives of Florida, 500 S. Bronough St., Tallahassee, FL 32399-0250 USA. Contact: 850.245.6700. Archives@dos.myflorida.com
Persistent URL: digital.lib.muohio.edu/u?/tradecards,1844
Subject (TGM): Frogs; Animals in human situations; Clothing & dress; Humorous pictures; Floor coverings; Draperies; Cornices
Description: Boys from the Toledo JCC basketball team chasing after ball
Creator/Photographer: Unknown
Medium: black-and-white photographic print
Date: undated
Persistent URL: digital.cjh.org/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=210756
Repository: American Jewish Historical Society
Parent Collection: National Jewish Welfare Board Records
Call Number: I-337
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+++ DISCLAIMER +++
Nothing you see here is real, even though the conversion or the presented background story might be based on historical facts. BEWARE!
Some background:
Clarence L. "Kelly" Johnson, vice president of engineering and research at Lockheed's Skunk Works, visited USAF air bases across South Korea in November 1951 to speak with fighter pilots about what they wanted and needed in a fighter aircraft. At the time, the American pilots were confronting the MiG-15 with North American F-86 Sabres, and many felt that the MiGs were superior to the larger and more complex American design. The pilots requested a small and simple aircraft with excellent performance, especially high speed and altitude capabilities. Armed with this information, Johnson immediately started the design of such an aircraft on his return to the United States.
Work started in March 1952. In order to achieve the desired performance, Lockheed chose a small and simple aircraft, weighing in at 12,000 lb (5,400 kg) with a single powerful engine. The engine chosen was the new General Electric J79 turbojet, an engine of dramatically improved performance in comparison with contemporary designs. The small L-246 design remained essentially identical to the Model 083 Starfighter as eventually delivered.
Johnson presented the design to the Air Force on 5 November 1952, and work progressed quickly, with a mock-up ready for inspection at the end of April, and work starting on two prototypes that summer. The first prototype was completed by early 1954 and first flew on 4 March at Edwards AFB. The total time from contract to first flight was less than one year.
The first YF-104A flew on 17 February 1956 and, with the other 16 trial aircraft, were soon carrying out equipment evaluation and flight tests. Lockheed made several improvements to the aircraft throughout the testing period, including strengthening the airframe, adding a ventral fin to improve directional stability at supersonic speed, and installing a boundary layer control system (BLCS) to reduce landing speed. Problems were encountered with the J79 afterburner; further delays were caused by the need to add AIM-9 Sidewinder air-to-air missiles. On 28 January 1958, the first production F-104A to enter service was delivered.
Even though the F-104 saw only limited use by the USAF, later versions, tailored to a fighter bomber role and intended for overseas sales, were more prolific. This was in particular the F-104G, which became the Starfighter's main version, a total of 1,127 F-104Gs were produced under license by Canadair and a consortium of European companies that included Messerschmitt/MBB, Fiat, Fokker, and SABCA.
The F-104G differed considerably from earlier versions. It featured strengthened fuselage, wing, and empennage structures; a larger vertical fin with fully powered rudder as used on the earlier two-seat versions; fully powered brakes, new anti-skid system, and larger tires; revised flaps for improved combat maneuvering; a larger braking chute. Upgraded avionics included an Autonetics NASARR F15A-41B multi-mode radar with air-to-air, ground-mapping, contour-mapping, and terrain-avoidance modes, as well as the Litton LN-3 Inertial Navigation System, the first on a production fighter.
Germany was among the first foreign operators of the F-104G variant. As a side note, a widespread misconception was and still is that the "G" explicitly stood for "Germany". But that was not the case and pure incidence, it was just the next free letter, even though Germany had a major influence on the aircraft's concept and equipment. The German Air Force and Navy used a large number of F-104G aircraft for interception, reconnaissance and fighter bomber roles. In total, Germany operated 916 Starfighters, becoming the type's biggest operator in the world. Beyond the single seat fighter bombers, Germany also bought and initially 30 F-104F two-seat aircraft and then 137 TF-104G trainers. Most went to the Luftwaffe and a total of 151 Starfighters was allocated to the Marineflieger units.
The introduction of this highly technical aircraft type to a newly reformed German air force was fraught with problems. Many were of technical nature, but there were other sources of problems, too. For instance, after WWII, many pilots and ground crews had settled into civilian jobs and had not kept pace with military and technological developments. Newly recruited/re-activated pilots were just being sent on short "refresher" courses in slow and benign-handling first-generation jet aircraft or trained on piston-driven types. Ground crews were similarly employed with minimal training and experience, which was one consequence of a conscripted military with high turnover of service personnel. Operating in poor northwest European weather conditions (vastly unlike the fair-weather training conditions at Luke AFB in Arizona) and flying low at high speed over hilly terrain, a great many Starfighter accidents were attributed to controlled flight into terrain (CFIT). German Air Force and Navy losses with the type totaled 110 pilots, around half of them naval officers.
One general contributing factor to the high attrition rate was the operational assignment of the F-104 in German service: it was mainly used as a (nuclear strike) fighter-bomber, flying at low altitude underneath enemy radar and using landscape clutter as passive radar defense, as opposed to the original design of a high-speed, high-altitude fighter/interceptor. In addition to the different and demanding mission profiles, the installation of additional avionic equipment in the F-104G version, such as the inertial navigation system, added distraction to the pilot and additional weight that further hampered the flying abilities of the plane. In contemporary German magazine articles highlighting the Starfighter safety problems, the aircraft was portrayed as "overburdened" with technology, which was considered a latent overstrain on the aircrews. Furthermore, many losses in naval service were attributed to the Starfighter’s lack of safety margin through a twin-engine design like the contemporary Blackburn Buccaneer, which had been the German navy air arm’s favored type. But due to political reasons (primarily the outlook to produce the Starfighter in Southern Germany in license), the Marine had to accept and make do with the Starfighter, even if it was totally unsuited for the air arm's mission profile.
Erich Hartmann, the world's top-scoring fighter ace from WWII, commanded one of Germany's first (post-war) jet fighter-equipped squadrons and deemed the F-104 to be an unsafe aircraft with poor handling characteristics for aerial combat. To the dismay of his superiors, Hartmann judged the fighter unfit for Luftwaffe use even before its introduction.
In 1966 Johannes Steinhoff took over command of the Luftwaffe and grounded the entire Luftwaffe and Bundesmarine F-104 fleet until he was satisfied that the persistent problems had been resolved or at least reduced to an acceptable level. One measure to improve the situation was that some Starfighters were modified to carry a flight data recorder or "black box" which could give an indication of the probable cause of an accident. In later years, the German Starfighters’ safety record improved, although a new problem of structural failure of the wings emerged: original fatigue calculations had not taken into account the high number of g-force loading cycles that the German F-104 fleet was experiencing through their mission profiles, and many airframes were returned to the depot for wing replacement or outright retirement.
The German F-104Gs served primarily in the strike role as part of the Western nuclear deterrent strategy, some of these dedicated nuclear strike Starfighters even had their M61 gun replaced by an additional fuel tank for deeper penetration missions. However, some units close to the German borders, e.g. Jagdgeschwader (JG) 71 in Wittmundhafen (East Frisia) as well as JG 74 in Neuburg (Bavaria), operated the Starfighter as a true interceptor on QRA duty. From 1980 onwards, these dedicated F-104Gs received a new air superiority camouflage, consisting of three shades of grey in an integral wraparound scheme, together with smaller, subdued national markings. This livery was officially called “Norm 82” and unofficially “Alberich”, after the secretive guardian of the Nibelung's treasure. A similar wraparound paint scheme, tailored to low-level operations and consisting of two greens and black (called Norm 83), was soon applied to the fighter bombers and the RF-104 fleet, too, as well as to the Luftwaffe’s young Tornado IDS fleet.
However, the Luftwaffe’s F-104Gs were at that time already about to be gradually replaced, esp. in the interceptor role, by the more capable and reliable F-4F Phantom II, a process that lasted well into the mid-Eighties due to a lagging modernization program for the Phantoms. The Luftwaffe’s fighter bombers and recce Starfighters were replaced by the MRCA Tornado and RF-4E Phantoms. In naval service the Starfighters soldiered on for a little longer until they were also replaced by the MRCA Tornado – eventually, the Marineflieger units received a two engine aircraft type that was suitable for their kind of missions.
In the course of the ongoing withdrawal, a lot of German aircraft with sufficiently enough flying hours left were transferred to other NATO partners like Norway, Greece, Turkey and Italy, and two were sold to the NASA. One specific Starfighter was furthermore modified into a CCV (Control-Configured Vehicle) experimental aircraft under control of the German Industry, paving the way to aerodynamically unstable aircraft like the Eurofighter/Typhoon. The last operational German F-104 made its farewell flight on 22. Mai 1991, and the type’s final flight worldwide was in Italy in October 2004.
General characteristics:
Crew: 1
Length: 54 ft 8 in (16.66 m)
Wingspan: 21 ft 9 in (6.63 m)
Height: 13 ft 6 in (4.11 m)
Wing area: 196.1 ft² (18.22 m²)
Airfoil: Biconvex 3.36 % root and tip
Empty weight: 14,000 lb (6,350 kg)
Max takeoff weight: 29,027 lb (13,166 kg)
Powerplant:
1× General Electric J79 afterburning turbojet,
10,000 lbf (44 kN) thrust dry, 15,600 lbf (69 kN) with afterburner
Performance:
Maximum speed: 1,528 mph (2,459 km/h, 1,328 kn)
Maximum speed: Mach 2
Combat range: 420 mi (680 km, 360 nmi)
Ferry range: 1,630 mi (2,620 km, 1,420 nmi)
Service ceiling: 50,000 ft (15,000 m)
Rate of climb: 48,000 ft/min (240 m/s) initially
Lift-to-drag: 9.2
Wing loading: 105 lb/ft² (510 kg/m²)
Thrust/weight: 0.54 with max. takeoff weight (0.76 loaded)
Armament:
1× 20 mm (0.787 in) M61A1 Vulcan six-barreled Gatling cannon, 725 rounds
7× hardpoints with a capacity of 4,000 lb (1,800 kg), including up to four AIM-9 Sidewinder, (nuclear)
bombs, guided and unguided missiles, or other stores like drop tanks or recce pods
The kit and its assembly:
A relatively simple what-if project – based on the question how a German F-104 interceptor might have looked like, had it been operated for a longer time to see the Luftwaffe’s low-viz era from 1981 onwards. In service, the Luftwaffe F-104Gs started in NMF and then carried the Norm 64 scheme, the well-known splinter scheme in grey and olive drab. Towards the end of their career the fighter bombers and recce planes received the Norm 83 wraparound scheme in green and black, but by that time no dedicated interceptors were operational anymore, so I stretched the background story a little.
The model is the very nice Italeri F-104G/S model, which is based on the ESCI molds from the Eighties, but it comes with recessed engravings and an extra sprue that contains additional drop tanks and an Orpheus camera pod. The kit also includes a pair of Sidewinders with launch rails for the wing tips as well as the ventral “catamaran” twin rail, which was frequently used by German Starfighters because the wing tips were almost constantly occupied with tanks.
Fit and detail is good – the kit is IMHO very good value for the money. There are just some light sinkholes on the fuselage behind the locator pins, the fit of the separate tail section is mediocre and calls for PSR, and the thin and very clear canopy is just a single piece – for open display, you have to cut it by yourself.
Since the model would become a standard Luftwaffe F-104G, just with a fictional livery, the kit was built OOB. The only change I made are drooped flaps, and the air brakes were mounted in open position.
The ordnance (wing tip tanks plus the ventral missiles) was taken from the kit, reflecting the typical German interceptor configuration: the wing tips were frequently occupied with tanks, sometimes even together with another pair of drop tanks under the wings, so that any missile had to go under the fuselage. The instructions for the ventral catamaran launch rails are BTW wrong – they tell the builder to mount the launch rails onto the twin carrier upside down! Correctly, the carrier’s curvature should lie flush on the fuselage, with no distance at all. When mounted as proposed, the Sidewinders come very close to the ground and the whole installation looks pretty goofy! I slightly modified the catamaran launch rail with some thin styrene profile strips as spacers, and the missiles themselves, AIM-9Bs, were replaced with more modern and delicate AIM-9Js from a Hasegawa air-to-air weapons set. Around the hull, some small blade antennae, a dorsal rotating warning light and an angle-of-attack sensor were added.
Painting and markings:
The exotic livery is what defined this what-if build, and the paint scheme was actually inspired by a real world benchmark: some Dornier Do-28D Skyservants of the German Marineflieger received, late in their career, a wraparound scheme in three shades of grey, namely RAL 7030 (Steingrau), 7000 (Fehgrau) and 7012 (Basaltgrau). I thought that this would work pretty well for an F-104G interceptor that operates at medium to high altitudes, certainly better than the relatively dark Norm 64 splinter scheme or the Norm 83 low-altitude pattern.
The camouflage pattern was simply adopted from the Starfighter’s Norm 83 scheme, just the colors were exchanged. The kit was painted with acrylic paints from Revell, since the authentic tones were readily available, namely 75, 57 and 77. As a disrupting detail I gave the wing tip tanks the old Norm 64 colors: uniform Gelboliv from above (RAL 6014, Revell 42), Silbergrau underneath (RAL 7001, Humbrol’s 127 comes pretty close), and bright RAL 2005 dayglo orange markings, the latter created with TL Modellbau decal sheet material for clean edges and an even finish.
The cockpit interior was painted in standard medium grey (Humbrol 140, Dark Gull Grey), the landing gear including the wells became aluminum (Humbrol 56), the interior of the air intakes was painted with bright matt aluminum metallizer (Humbrol 27001) with black anti-icing devices in the edges and the shock cones. The radome was painted with very light grey (Humbrol 196, RAL 7035), the dark green anti-glare panel is a decal from the OOB sheet.
The model received a standard black ink washing and some panel post-shading (with Testors 2133 Russian Fulcrum Grey, Humbrol 128 FS 36320 and Humbrol 156 FS 36173) in an attempt to even out the very different shades of grey. The result does not look bad, pretty worn and weathered (like many German Starfighters), even though the paint scheme reminds a lot of the Hellenic "Ghost" scheme from the late F-4Es and the current F-16s?
The decals for the subdued Luftwaffe markings were puzzled together from various sources. The stencils were mostly taken from the kit’s exhaustive and sharply printed sheet. Tactical codes (“26+40” is in the real Starfighter range, but this specific code was AFAIK never allocated), iron crosses and the small JG 71 emblems come from TL Modellbau aftermarket sheets. Finally, after some light soot stains around the gun port, the afterburner and some air outlets along the fuselage with graphite, the model was sealed with matt acrylic varnish.
A simple affair, since the (nice) kit was built OOB and the only really fictional aspect of this model is its livery. But the resulting aircraft looks good, the all-grey wraparound scheme suits the slender F-104 well and makes an interceptor role quite believable. Would probably also look good on a German Eurofighter? Certainly more interesting than the real world all-blue-grey scheme.
In the beauty pics the scheme also appears to be quite effective over open water, too, so that the application to the Marineflieger Do-28Ds made sense. However, for the real-world Starfighter, this idea came a couple of years too late.