ESCI / Italeri 1/72 Lockheed / Fiat F-104G / S
Here's the generally attractive fuselage, cockpit tub, landing gear, replica of the Lockheed C2 ejection seat and the instrument panel cover / glare shield. As you can see, the engine intakes and 'mice' + boundary layer splitters all went together and look good. The aft fuselage also looks good, although I have a uneasy feeling that I should have assembled and painted the afterburner exhaust and trapped it between the halves of the aft fuselage...
The mass-flow of the Phantom J-79 that Fiat and Lockheed chose for the F-104S meant that it is said to have noticeably larger intake and associated ducting, larger aft fuselage, etc. This kit, while generally nice, cannot be both an F-104G and an F-104S
On the good news/bad news front, there is a luggage pod in the middle of the parts tree above. On the bad news side, the too skinny wing tank halves visible above simply aren't contenders.
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ESCI / Italeri 1/72 Lockheed / Fiat F-104G / S
Here's the generally attractive fuselage, cockpit tub, landing gear, replica of the Lockheed C2 ejection seat and the instrument panel cover / glare shield. As you can see, the engine intakes and 'mice' + boundary layer splitters all went together and look good. The aft fuselage also looks good, although I have a uneasy feeling that I should have assembled and painted the afterburner exhaust and trapped it between the halves of the aft fuselage...
The mass-flow of the Phantom J-79 that Fiat and Lockheed chose for the F-104S meant that it is said to have noticeably larger intake and associated ducting, larger aft fuselage, etc. This kit, while generally nice, cannot be both an F-104G and an F-104S
On the good news/bad news front, there is a luggage pod in the middle of the parts tree above. On the bad news side, the too skinny wing tank halves visible above simply aren't contenders.
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