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German F104G Starfighter Aircraft
Academy Plastics German F104G Starfighter Aircraft
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Academy F-140G
I just completed an older boxing of this kit. It comes from even older molds. According to Scalemates, the kit dates to 1963 Hasagawa molds. There is not a lot of detail. The main landing gear bay is a gaping hole. The are speed bakes that can be opened, but there is noting behind them except a whole. Cockpit detail is pretty much non-existant. The tabs for the wingtip fuel tanks are quite week. I accidently snapped it off and had to create some exterior bracing to keep it in place. I did enjoy painting the kit to a close representation of the box art and the decals were mostly ok for being over 25 years old. I would not build this kit again. There is so much basic detail that is missing.
VERY FUN AND ENJOYABLE BUILD, NOTHING HARD NICE FIGHTER
My father bought me this also, If I remember correctly and I had to repaint it after using wrong color. This model is a pretty nice size almost as big as an f-15 but being very narrow and fast! It was also a delicate aircraft and the only little challenge was the missiles were very skinny and the arms that hold them kept on falling off of itself and off the a/c. Glue first missile to the arm and then after it dries, to the aircraft. I painted light blue bottom, medium blue top and with dark green as camo, do lightest color first. decals weren't hard. The only things I wish it this was a USA aircraft and had US decals, but then I guess its nice to have a variety of different airplanes
military jet
model has good raised panel lines but what can you expect with a 1/72 scale model. I enjoyed making this model and weould buy again but a different version. this model was tricky because alot of small parts but I like Hasegawa models. The benefit of making 1/72 scale is that they are easy to store when completed. The only thing is painting them can be a bear.
simple but good
All thow there is not a lot of detale. It is a simple plane to build the inst are good and paint inst are easy. The cockpit has no detale but there is a base pilot for seat. The detals are for one plane and are easy to use. It comes with four tanks and two sidewinders. A good but simple model a plane for all.
Good kit
This was a good kit but was a bit simplistic. Flash was present. Styrene was soft. Releasing Agent was thick on the parts and took forever to get off. I did not have any major issues with fit.
F104G
By: knippw
This was very nice to put together there was no flash.The decals went down great with some setting solution. All in all i really liked this kit
F 104G
VERY NICE KIT PARTS FIT WELL SO SLEEK LOOKING, QUALITY OF PARTS IS GOOD