Royal Netherlands Airforce | F-104G 323 Sqn D-8341

Jos Jansen
My new project, a F-104G Starfighter of 323 sqn stationed at Leeuwarden air base. Back in the early eighties I spend many hours beside the runway of this air base to see this "rocket" jet....!

Erik Leijdens
Defintely following Jos. Have to make one too soon. Maybe even 2 at once

Jos Jansen
This remains a cool jet, modeling trips to armor remains fun, but my preference goes to jets. I still have the Kinetic NF5 and the F16 in my stash, both of course KLU versions. I still doubt with this F104 if I make a version of the 322 sqn or one of 323, at least one of Leeuwarden! Do you have any suggestions which jet this should be, it must remain an average jet, I do not want to make a demo version like the D-8331 from Hans van der Werf in 1979.

Erik Leijdens
Jos, sorry for the late response! I know what you mean with a average jet. I also dislike most of the demo airplanes. My suggestion would be a all grey QRA bird from 323/322 with a couple of Sidewinders or a camouflaged RF-104 from 306 squadron with a Orpheus pod on the centeline. At least that's what I am planing to do with my 2 one-0-fours in the stash. Suggestions for a specific serial I cannot give you but D-6666 is a very attractive serial, only that was a 311/312 bird.

Jos Jansen
Hey Erik (in Dutch...), ik ga voor een 323 kist...ooit vroeger meerdere malen op de basis van Lwdn geweest. Ik ben van plan om in de.toekomst een gave F16 van Kinetic (in stash) te bouwen in een Polly Grey versie. Ik ben wat one-o-four serials aan het verzamelen om hieruit te kiezen. Ik hou het bij een doorsnee kist met flink wat gebruikerssporen.