**** DONE: GB-44 1/48 CF-104 441 Sqn Checkerbird - Military A/C of post-war time

[fubar57]

Username: fubar57
First name: George
Category: Advanced
Manufacturer: Revell
Model: Canadair CF-104
Scale: 1:48

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This aircraft wore this scheme for the 30th anniversary of CFB Baden Soellingen, Germany

 

[fubar57]

A word of warning; shield your eyes.....the innards....

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As can be seen, I sprayed these when I did the two-seater.

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These are the kit decals which I won't be using. If anyone wants them they're yours

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These are the Leading Edge decals I will be using which includes some resin sensors the Canadian aircraft used

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You can see why I chose Ole Yeller to do as the black bird as opposed the -104 with the grey sprues. I've only read one revue and there will be mud

 

[Wurger]

 

[T Bolt]

A third 104?! You going to have a dedicated Starfighter desplay shelf?

 

[Airframes]

Good one Geo.
I thought at first that the kit parts were one of Jeff's photos, being yellow !!

 

[rochie]

Good one Geo.
I thought at first that the kit parts were one of Jeff's photos, being yellow !!

must be a Canadian boxing of this kit

 

[Airframes]

Yep !

 

[Crimea_River]

Taxi!

 

[Airframes]

It's a lemon entry, my dear Watson !

 

[fubar57]

 

[fubar57]

Nice try Revell...

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Plan B: I do like the decals so I'm going to remove the raised detail on the IP and side consoles. I'll then install deecals 1 & 2 first. This way I can see if there's room for the two end parts I'm going to remove from deecal 5

 

[fubar57]

Offending raised detail removed; also removed from the IP of my other single seat -104.

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A bit of clean-up and then I'll paint them gloss black

 

[Wurger]

 

[rochie]

Nice start Geo

 

[fubar57]

Thanks guys. ♪They call me mellow yellow, quite rightly♫ Moving by Step 2 and on to Step 3 as apparently gloss paint takes forever to dry.

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The details just screams out at you

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I'm just going to glue it in place to make sure the door doesn't fall inside when I seal it up

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2011, Revell gets it right

 

[Wurger]

The gun bay begs building from scratch or replacing with a resin part at least.

 

[vandee]

Beautiful job so far George! That lovely yellow plastic brings back memories ! LOL- John

 

[Crimea_River]

Sooner you get that damned plastic painted the better!

 

[fubar57]

Yep and I have to stare at it continuously. For whatever reason, the gun hatches from the other kits fit better. The grey didn't quite conform to the curve on its own fuselage even when I added more curl yet almost a perfect fit on this fuselage.

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I briefly thought about swapping a lot of the other kit parts......briefly but I figured it might cause a few seizures

 

[Wurger]