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Will use the Lockheed C-2 seat since it will be an early F-104G in natural metal. Resin cokpit is from Black Box.

As you can see the F-104s had no floor in the cokpit, that way seat could be removed from the bottom.

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Niels, since you are here, can you please help me with the colour of the deck on the back of the seat, I'm building K-FN, deck looks dark in photos but can't really tell if black or dark olive drab, thanks!

I also notice that fiber glass panels were lighter shade on Norwegian G, not the dark yellow seen on other air forces, can you confirm this?

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during the weekend I was able to close the fuselage without any gaps and after sanding a bit the spine I starte srying some base coats to prepare the model for the metallic paints.

I choose to use different kind of paint, some glossy, some flat, some light some darker, to try to achive different metallic shades later.

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when possible I used old Eduard's masks Laser-cut from Vinil, these were less adjustable than current Kabuki -mad ones, but could be used several times without any damage.

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Wings top got a coat of Mr. Colour white, my favorite. No glue is required to attach the wing to fuselage, they stay in position strongly alone.

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Gunze's Aircraft Gray for the lower part of the wings looks too much yellowish for my personal taste, will probably change this with something more bluishò

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Since I was unappy with the shade of Gunze's Aircraft Gray I choose to lightly respy those panel with a light coat of JASDF light gray

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the anti-glare panel come from the DACO decals for the Luftwaffe, same for all the few stencils, just mind to use only those written in English for the early 104s

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in the background of these photo you can see the airframe I'm building, photo i published in Jan Jorgensen's book, Nordic Airpower about RNoAF

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here again a nice touch of details from DACO decals: the black holes for the grill!

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The lower part of the wings also got the JASDF light gray, unfortunately the Norwegian roundels from Army Cast have a too light blue shade but there is nothing I can do about it and I have no replacement from better producers :explode:

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Top of wing view with fuel tank attached with white glue

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the red stencils you see in the photo here below come from the old Revell F-104 box

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To be finished next weekend!

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I think I can call her finished now, will probably just add some RBF banners (ordered from CMK) and (maybe) red covers for the air intakes to add some colour.

I'm not 100% avbout the caps for wing-tip the fuel tanks, ave no photo of this detail for Norwegians :bandhead2:/>, so I just cut 4 red circle and put them over the caps but I can remove at any time if something more appropiate is needed, any idea? Niels or someone else know more? TIA

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I had some troubles with the very nice Chorme by Mr. Colour (laquer): it was actually completely "eaten" by Micro Sol and Set (don't you know acid eats metal? :explode: ) during decalling sessions! :crying2:

So I masked the area around the rear fuselage with low-sticky paper and had to re-spry the chome.

This time I added 10% aluminium to the Chrome paint, I loose some shining but I guest I made it stronger and it will last forever this time (no more acid due on model! :whistle: ):

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here some details of front fuselage and cockpit

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Excellent work! I'm always in awe of a BMF finish, as you really need to spend time on tonal variations.

I see you did some heat discoloration too. That's a skill I also need to learn some day; probably before I do BMF airframe...

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Well, Paolo, Italians really know how to make goooood acid....red and white wine vinegar! I like that stuff...giving the boring dutch salad the kick, together with olive oil! So no wonder...your acid is strong! hehe

I just can say that I used Gunze Metalizer too and it gave me several problems when I made a Mirage III some years ago. Especially masking is tricky. That's why I prefer the Alclad II. Sometimes the good old Humbrol metal paints you can polish...

also very good!

BUT I have to say, your Zipper looks great!! I see, one day I have to visit you to see all your jawdropping models in real! Hehe

Ciao, buona domenica!

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Great work Paolo! Great to see a NMF RNoAF Zipper!

I checked my reference photos and it looks like the caps on the wing tanks were a darker color. My pictures are all b/w, so i can see what color it is though. (i only looked at the NMF code letters RNoAFs).

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