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Title: 1/72 scale Century Series Jets - F-104G..................(Completed 29 Mar 2015)
Post by: lastvautour on February 10, 2015, 01:32:09 AM
Drawings have been scaled and printed. Wood selection will be made shortly.

Lou
Title: Re: 1/72 scale Century Series Jets - F-104G
Post by: lastvautour on February 13, 2015, 11:00:44 PM
Wooden pieces have been selected and templates are glued to cardboard. Carving will start shortly.

Lou
Title: Re: 1/72 scale Century Series Jets - F-104G
Post by: lastvautour on February 15, 2015, 02:38:05 AM
Fuselage block marked. Carving to start tomorrow. Major snow storm schedules for later tonight and all day Sunday which converts to play time.

Lou
Title: Re: 1/72 scale Century Series Jets - F-104G
Post by: lastvautour on February 15, 2015, 06:58:39 PM
Moving along.

Lou
Title: Re: 1/72 scale Century Series Jets - F-104G
Post by: lastvautour on February 16, 2015, 11:12:03 PM
The previous F-104 fuselage(photo above) was discarded as the side view should have been applied 90 degrees to the location I used. That made the piece of wood too narrow to carve out the top view. Another piece was cut and carved. Now for carving the top view.

Lou
Title: Re: 1/72 scale Century Series Jets - F-104G
Post by: lastvautour on February 17, 2015, 07:01:04 PM
F-104 bringing up the rear. Block cuts. Shaping to begin shortly.

Lou
Title: Re: 1/72 scale Century Series Jets - F-104G
Post by: lastvautour on February 22, 2015, 03:49:23 PM
Moving along.

Lou
Title: Re: 1/72 scale Century Series Jets - F-104G
Post by: lastvautour on February 23, 2015, 07:08:00 PM
Rough carved fuselage. Two brown smudges are blood. I like to pour myself into my work.

Lou
Title: Re: 1/72 scale Century Series Jets - F-104G
Post by: lastvautour on March 01, 2015, 03:48:29 PM
Test fit wings to fuselage.

Lou
Title: Re: 1/72 scale Century Series Jets - F-104G
Post by: lastvautour on March 10, 2015, 07:20:44 PM
Major components glued and sanded followed by first coat of wet primer.

Lou
Title: Re: 1/72 scale Century Series Jets - F-104G
Post by: lastvautour on March 11, 2015, 02:42:42 PM
Primer dried. Just a bit of filler and some sanding followed by additional primer. Tip tanks, gun fairing and bottom fin are yet to be done.

Lou
Title: Re: 1/72 scale Century Series Jets - F-104G
Post by: Boomerang on March 11, 2015, 08:45:03 PM

  They all look great Lou.

  Cheers

   Gordon
Title: Re: 1/72 scale Century Series Jets - F-104G
Post by: lastvautour on March 12, 2015, 12:07:51 AM
Thanks Gordon.

Lou
Title: Re: 1/72 scale Century Series Jets - F-104G
Post by: Biggles on March 13, 2015, 04:14:44 AM
Looks great lou,
Is it french?
Its a pity about that first fuselarge :P
Biggles
Title: Re: 1/72 scale Century Series Jets - F-104G
Post by: lastvautour on March 13, 2015, 09:30:11 AM
The F-104 is American but was licence built in several countries including Canada.

Lou
Title: Re: 1/72 scale Century Series Jets - F-104G
Post by: lastvautour on March 20, 2015, 10:31:19 PM
Progress report. Wing tanks carved and sprayed on one side only. I fished them out of the paint shop for this photo. The gun blister(not visible) has been added. The exhaust ring is the part of a toothpaste tube cover cut down. It was the perfect diameter.

Lou
Title: Re: 1/72 scale Century Series Jets - F-104G
Post by: lastvautour on March 23, 2015, 07:22:33 PM
First coat of gloss white has been applied to the upper wing and top and bottom of stab. Most pictures show the more colourful red stab, however that was used only in country.

Lou
Title: Re: 1/72 scale Century Series Jets - F-104G
Post by: lastvautour on March 25, 2015, 02:22:00 PM
Wings and radome painted their respective colour. Now a coat of gloss white followed by chrome rather than silver. The chrome needs a glossy surface as it will show up every imperfection.

Lou
Title: Re: 1/72 scale Century Series Jets - F-104G
Post by: lastvautour on March 26, 2015, 02:17:31 PM
The masking has been removed and the canopy, engine intake lip masked and painted flat black. Tip tanks are in the paint shop and will be ready to attach later today if I find time. I still have the intake bullets and some shading of the rear fuselage and we will be ready for decals. I have some 1/72 scale aftermarket CF-104 decals in the spares box so home made one will be serial numbers only. I anticipate roll out sometime next week.

Lou
Title: Re: 1/72 scale Century Series Jets - F-104G
Post by: lastvautour on March 27, 2015, 07:06:27 PM
Just finished painting. Went with Krylon brilliant silver.

Lou
Title: Re: 1/72 scale Century Series Jets - F-104G
Post by: Boomerang on March 28, 2015, 07:39:17 AM

  Excellent work Lou.
Title: Re: 1/72 scale Century Series Jets - F-104G
Post by: lastvautour on March 28, 2015, 12:12:52 PM
Thank you Gordon. Just finished printing my decals. It takes about half an hour to dry and then another half hour for the Krylon gloss spray. With any luck, I may be able to have the roll out later today. The roundels will be aftermarket spares.

The image is a print screen image from the Word Doc I use to create the decals. I attach clear film over the serial numbers and white film over the flags and run through the printer again. I normally use the normal setting, but lately problems have occurred with some gaps so this time it was best setting and that seemed to work. I will know only after the image has dried if things went well.

Lou
Title: Re: 1/72 scale Century Series Jets - F-104G..................(Completed 29 Mar 2015)
Post by: lastvautour on March 29, 2015, 01:16:34 PM
All decals are home made as the aftermarket ones just crumbled when I attempted to move them of the paper.

Lou
Title: Re: 1/72 scale Century Series Jets - F-104G..................(Completed 29 Mar 2015)
Post by: Boomerang on March 29, 2015, 08:01:47 PM

Looks good with the decals, Lou.
I need to spend some time to sort out the "best" printer settings. I get fine white lines through
  mine and the colour is a bit washed out. Using the settings as detailed on the Testors paper.
Gordon
Title: Re: 1/72 scale Century Series Jets - F-104G..................(Completed 29 Mar 2015)
Post by: buccfan on March 29, 2015, 08:10:56 PM
Excellent model Lou, great decal work as usual. Best regards Paul J.
Title: Re: 1/72 scale Century Series Jets - F-104G..................(Completed 29 Mar 2015)
Post by: lastvautour on March 29, 2015, 08:17:43 PM
Thank you Paul and Gordon.

As to the decal setting, I use "Normal". I had that problem of lines, however it went away on its own. This would happen with the darker colours and mostly on white decal film. On occasion I have printed on clear film to place over the previously printed white film decal.

Lou
Title: Re: 1/72 scale Century Series Jets - F-104G..................(Completed 29 Mar 2015)
Post by: Boomerang on March 29, 2015, 11:11:29 PM

  I'll experiment.
  Cheers
  Gordon
Title: Re: 1/72 scale Century Series Jets - F-104G..................(Completed 29 Mar 2015)
Post by: R.F.Bennett on April 06, 2015, 06:39:38 PM
Great job Lou,. . . There is a variation of an F104A-10 that might inspire you too do another Century Jet subject. It is one of a kind and actually flown by Chuck Yeager.  http://www.landspeed.com/ (http://www.landspeed.com/) Vehicle specs can be found at; http://www.landspeed.com/project/vehicle (http://www.landspeed.com/project/vehicle)  :o
Title: Re: 1/72 scale Century Series Jets - F-104G..................(Completed 29 Mar 2015)
Post by: lastvautour on April 06, 2015, 07:12:18 PM
Thank you Ray. I down loaded the drawings.

Lou
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