Beyond The Sprues
Current and Finished Projects => Physical Models => Aero-space => Topic started by: theplasticsurgeon on November 11, 2013, 01:18:24 AM
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Now a US Navy Starfighter - just a change of markings.
(https://i.postimg.cc/DzBstCjm/Matchbox-F104-Navy.jpg) (https://postimages.org/)
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That just looks right somehow.
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that looks really pretty!
also looks flipping dangerous to get it back on deck lol
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It does "just looks right somehow".
It does "looks flipping dangerous to get it back on deck ". Must be the one model of land based only fighter the Navy used.
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Perhaps their successful use by China Lake in Sidewinder development persuaded the USN to purchase a few squadrons as interceptors defending their various NAS and MCAS establishments.
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Terry Moore, aka braincells37, of IPMS-Seattle did one as the XF5V-1 for the April 2004 Internet Modeler:
http://www.internetmodeler.com/2004/april/aviation/f-104e.php (http://www.internetmodeler.com/2004/april/aviation/f-104e.php)
It was picked up by The Hook and published as real:
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v11/braincells37/XF5V-1article.jpg)
http://www.whatifmodelers.com/index.php/topic,23014.msg332969.html#msg332969 (http://www.whatifmodelers.com/index.php/topic,23014.msg332969.html#msg332969)
;D
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That's pure eye-candy in those Navy colors!
What an imaginative project and a sharp, clean looking bird!
Brian da Basher