F-104 1/72 Matchbox Build Group - retro-modelling

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January 3, 2023
Box contents ,,, at least with this one I got the stand ,,,,,
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January 3, 2023
Colourful sprues
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January 3, 2023
Mould says 1976 ,,,,, pure nostalgia of those days whe we just built and painted it whatever decoration we lliked.
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January 7, 2023
Main fuselage parts glued together, This time I'm taking a more secure way with the nose ballast ,,,, just PVA glue, and some white metal (of course) that came from an old radial engine ... In the end I opted for an in-flight pose ... so I could have avoided that.
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February 26, 2023
First coat of FS24079 green Gunze H 309.
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February 26, 2023
Meanwhile I searched for vintage Sidewinders in the spare-box ... and I also found two spare tanks from an ESCI F-104 Red Idian. The fit is perfect to the Matchbox kit wing tips. Also found the sledge pylon suport for the sidewinders.
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February 26, 2023
This is how it lloks after three coats of H 309 green. Nose has been painted FS24087 Gunze H 304. All brush painted. Also ventral fin , intakes and tail plane have been glued in place.
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March 12, 2023
Missiles rack in place.
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March 12, 2023
Also wing-tip tanks in place.
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March 12, 2023
I've got the feeling that the stand provided in the box is too small for this model ...
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April 14, 2023
Kit decals were useless .... Protection paper had stuck to the decals. No way to use them. So I had to search in my spare decals box and I found decals from a Revell and a Heller Draken, which will we the donnors for the insignias, and tail badge and flags. Unfortunately I've got no decals for the yellow stencils .....
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April 14, 2023
First phase for decalling completed. Now I'm searching for some suitable decals that could be used as yellow stencils. More anon.
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May 1, 2023
Second phase
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May 1, 2023
I did decalling in 3 phases because I had to put decal over decal in several places.
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May 1, 2023
Danish flag didn't stick very well so I had to cover the decal with PVA glue.
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May 1, 2023
I know the decoration is not 100x100 true but this is the best I could get. Also , as this is a retro-project ... you know , at that time I didn't care so much about fidelity.
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May 1, 2023
After a coat of Vallejo semi-gloss rattle can .... when set aside for drying ,,, the model fell from the support and one wing and the nose probe went away. No difficult to repair any way.
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May 1, 2023
Calling it done
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May 1, 2023
Sidewinders came from the spare parts box ... but I'm sure are from Matchbox.
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May 1, 2023
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May 1, 2023
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May 1, 2023
The stand from the kit is much to small for that model. I grabbed a pretty one from a 1/100 Tamiya Draken.
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May 1, 2023
Which is quite nice and elegant.
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May 1, 2023

Comments

29 3 January 2023, 15:13

Jan Peters
I love these vintage things, following 👀

3 January 2023, 15:18

Simon Nagorsnik
Oh, a Starfighter- nice!

3 January 2023, 15:30

Rando Dude
I remember building the '91 rerelease of that one back in the day.
Following with great interest.

3 January 2023, 15:33

Robert Podkoński
Watching too 🙂

3 January 2023, 16:01

Julian Herrero aka Yuri
I built it long long time ago , probably in the late 70s .... pure nostalgia ...... let's see how it turns out ,,,
Thanks mates !
At that time the model was painted in the splinter German camo ,,,, I'll have to made my mind up for this one ,,,,, Greek , Danish, Belgian, Norwegian ..... depending on the decals I've got in my stash .....

3 January 2023, 16:07

Łukasz Gliński
Following of course

4 January 2023, 13:02

Thomas Espe
👀

4 January 2023, 21:30

Daniel Klink
Count me in Mate 👍

4 January 2023, 21:44

Roy McKay
Yes! Following as expected....

5 January 2023, 00:16

DerMattes
Following 👍

27 February 2023, 08:38

Neil Patrick
Nice start! Looking forward to seeing this. 🙂

10 March 2023, 20:23

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Another retro-modelling for the Matchbox group build .... Love those old kits with all those fancy colours. As usual with my retro-modelling projects no putty and no airbrush will be used. Also I usually take the "retro-information" I still have from that time .... But in this case ... as this is not one of my favourite subjects I don't have old books referring to the Starfighter ,,, So I'll take the information from the internet or more modern books. This will be a little license that I'll take
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