Keith Diamond Posted March 30, 2005 Share Posted March 30, 2005 Any idea how to make this into a decent kit to represent a Phil AF F-5? Always wanted to build one and I'm considering it for a summer project. I don't have a kit right now, but I understand that the cockpit and gear wells are pretty much typical Testors/Hawk. I've heard a suggestion of kitbashing it with the Monogram F-5E, but I've also heard that is not a good idea. Thoughts? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Keith Diamond Posted March 30, 2005 Author Share Posted March 30, 2005 Thanks Mike. I'll start looking for pics of the landing gear to see the differences you mentioned. You said you modified a Black Box cockpit, is there anyway to modify a Monogram F-5E cockpit to make it passable? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
KursadA Posted March 31, 2005 Share Posted March 31, 2005 Keith, I still swear by the Testors/Hawk kit as a shapewise very accurate, inexpensive and nice basis for a good F-5A. The Monogram F-5E cockpit fits with some modifications, but it will take some work. The Black Box F-5E cockpit is a surprisingly good fit though, you can see photos of my work in the link Mike posted above. I am about to start a second one (not as detailed as the first one-no rescribing, no tip tanks etc.) which will be a modernized F-5/2000 LIFT trainer for the Turkish AF. I am using the Monogram F-5E cockpit base. Note that the Monogram F-5E cockpit has the seat built-in, and the seat in that case is the later improved Northrop seat, which will be inaccurate for most F-5A's. In my case I have cut the seat off, because the modernized Turkish F-5A use the Martin-Baker Mk.16L seat anyway. (Lighter version of the JSF seat). Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Keith Diamond Posted March 31, 2005 Author Share Posted March 31, 2005 Thanks Kursad. I've always heard that the Testors F-5A was a good basis too and it's good to know that the Monogram cockpit would work reasonably. I think I'll start with that. Not sure what I plan to do with the tip tanks yet, as I usually don't go aftermarket and Phil AF jets are usually seen with them. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
g0_command0 Posted April 10, 2005 Share Posted April 10, 2005 now i want to build a PHIL F-5A also, i have the super scale sheet and i want to build everything on that Quote Link to post Share on other sites
g0_command0 Posted April 16, 2005 Share Posted April 16, 2005 How hard is it to find the black box F-5E cockpit? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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