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Current and Finished Projects => Physical Models => Aero-space => Topic started by: davecov on September 12, 2014, 06:13:53 PM

Title: Airfix 1/72 Northrop F-5A ("Purse out of a sow's ear build" #2)
Post by: davecov on September 12, 2014, 06:13:53 PM

Airfix 1/72 Northrop F-5A Freedom Fighter

The second of my "Purse out of a sow's ear builds" which is OOB apart from the pilot:
(https://www.davecov.org/modelling/models/pictures/aircraft/Freedom_Fighter/Freedom_Fighter_004.JPG)

(https://www.davecov.org/modelling/models/pictures/aircraft/Freedom_Fighter/Freedom_Fighter_005.JPG)

(https://www.davecov.org/modelling/models/pictures/aircraft/Freedom_Fighter/Freedom_Fighter_006.JPG)

A poor quality kit that required a lot of TLC to get something passable enough to take pictures of!

Dave

Title: Re: Airfix 1/72 Northrop F-5A ("Purse out of a sow's ear build" #2)
Post by: kitnut617 on September 12, 2014, 09:45:09 PM

Very nicely done Dave, I have a book called Canadair CF-5, Freedom Fighter by Anthony L. Stachiw which says in the chapter about model kits available of the F-5, that although the Airfix kit is rather basic, it's the most accurate of the 1/72 kits (for an 'A' variant that is).  I have to say having worked on a 1:1 scale one, how the kit goes together is pretty much how the real thing's parts get assembled.

Title: Re: Airfix 1/72 Northrop F-5A ("Purse out of a sow's ear build" #2)
Post by: davecov on September 12, 2014, 09:50:20 PM

Thanks, Robert :)

Yes, the outline of the completed kit is pretty good but the real test is getting the dodgy bits of plastic to come together in such a way that they match the expected outline!

Dave

Title: Re: Airfix 1/72 Northrop F-5A ("Purse out of a sow's ear build" #2)
Post by: kitnut617 on September 12, 2014, 09:55:14 PM

I've got one of the Airfix kits in my stash (nostalgia), do you think it's because the moulds are worn out or something?

Title: Re: Airfix 1/72 Northrop F-5A ("Purse out of a sow's ear build" #2)
Post by: davecov on September 13, 2014, 04:17:30 AM

No, Robert, I think it is because it is an ill-fitting kit requiring a ton of filler! My kit was an Eighties boxing if I remember rightly.

Dave

Title: Re: Airfix 1/72 Northrop F-5A ("Purse out of a sow's ear build" #2)
Post by: FAAMAN on September 13, 2014, 07:55:46 AM

Great job on the "sow's ear", difficult to do without some "work" :D :D