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    St Hyacinthe, Quebec (near Montreal), Canada
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    Canadian Forces aircraft
    WWII fighters
    Modern jet fighters (USAF, RAF, etc)

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  1. Interesting information, Kursada. Janissary, that is one awesome build. Looks fantastic. As promised in a DM, here is what I found for RHAWR (Canadians called it the radar homing and warning receiver at the time, not RWR). A user here on ARC, called CF-104 of course, made a great version of a CF-104 that will show you how he did it. He knows a lot about the real aircraft, and I learned some stuff from him as well. For your interest, I dug up some photos I took in a museum at Edmonton Municipal Airport almost 10 years ago. The Starfighter they have on display is called a CF-1
  2. Thanks, Scooby! Great memories from Baden, back in the day. ALF
  3. So, Bekim... are the 3D prints made out of solid gold? I suspect the prices will be high enough to expect them to be made of gold. 😏 ALF
  4. Here's the pod, on a CF-104 that was involved in a Tactical Air Meet in 1974. Illu is correct, the CF-104 doesn't have a suffix, but the tail makes it look like a G. Differences include (CF-104 doesn't have): IR sensor at bottom of windscreen, bulged main gear doors, beefy main landing gear wheels.
  5. Super work! I especially love the authentic-looking paint job. 😍🏆 Here's what CF-104s looked like back in 1974, when my father flew them. This aircraft took part in the Tactical Weapons Meet. I was 15 years old, and used to climb under the barbed wire by the control tower in Baden to watch the jets taxi by. The Military Police never caught us, and the pilots all waved at us as they went by. The second picture is at a Tiger Meet, with my father at far right in the photo. Fantastic job, Janissary!
  6. Horizontal stabilizers and elevators installed. Tiny, fiddly parts for the hinges. I'm about to work on the radiators. Not sure if they should have open or closed fairings. Anyone know? I plan to have the flaps up, since I've learned from several reliable sources that Spits almost always got parked with flaps up, despite the kit having the flaps down option and lots of after-market stuff is made for this state. Fairings... looking into it. In the meantime, here is the finished upper and lower wing. It all fits very nicely.
  7. The bays are in place, and the long part along the top also fits perfectly in front of them. Now, the wing halves. They went together nicely as well, with no gaps. More soon. ALF
  8. Main landing gear. Parts L and R (the outer parts of the MLG bays) have about 6 parts each, which took a while to put together. Again, all fit nicely into place. The other L and R, the parts that cover the MLG struts, were interesting in themselves. There is reference to SB7, a 1.6 mm nut. Again, flipping to the back, I found drawings and references to the parts. Nuts and bolts are in a little plastic bag. There are four total nuts, one each 2.6 and 2 mm, and two 1.6 mm ones. I carefully fished out the tiniest ones, and saw that it fits the full-size drawing in this step of the inst
  9. The rudder put together. Also, it's important to use the right one. This Mk IXc has the rounded top rudder, while the kit also includes pointier tips for the Mk XVI. The little call-outs A,B, C are not easy to pick out all the time, but they clearly distinguish which Mark has which part. The fit was superb, of course.
  10. Now onto the rudder, elevators, and wings. The rudder is moveable, with some PE and metal parts. There's a rod that goes between the plastic rudder halves (part ST1). It has two little PE hinges, b-4 and b-5, that are to be inserted onto the rod but not glued in place. Interesting that the 'do not glue' icon is a Tamiya Extra Thin glue applicator, while PE would need CA glue... but I understand why. The part I had a difficult time with at first was the distinction between lower case b and upper case B. The lower case, as you can see on the PE at bottom in this pic, is for b-4, b-5, etc. The up
  11. Thanks, Mr. Happy! Not a 'mad' (crazy) thing to do, using such a pic. I'm not surprised just how many ref pics exist for Spitfires out there. I've always been fascinated by these aircraft, and I'll never forget the first time I saw one in person, flying. It showed up in May 1973 for the Squadron Colours presentation by Prince Phillip to our three Canadian CF-104 squadrons in Baden-Soellingen. The Spit was part of the airshow, and I got to walk around it and touch everything after the show, accompanied by my 104-pilot father. Years later, I got to sit in a Hurricane cockpit in the flyin
  12. You can see that the side panels fit beautifully with the various cockpit parts. Wonderful Tamiya kit engineering. I buttoned up the fuselage, and set it aside to dry. So far so good. Thanks for stopping by. ALF
  13. The other bits went into place more quickly. You can see in the kit instructions around where the air tanks go that the Tamiya green area is indeed larger and further forward than the example barkin mad showed above, but I had already buttoned up the fuselage by the time I read his comment. Nice try, something I will take into account during my next Tamiya build (my own kit, a Mk XVI).
  14. The kit instructions told me what I needed to know about shoulder strap placement, with the anchoring point on the bulkhead well behind the seat.
  15. You've done a great job yourself on that cockpit! I did paint some silver on the cockpit sidewall, but not much it would appear. Luckily, that area is hard to see unless you peer inside with a light, once the rear transparency is installed. Progress is slow, since a lot of this is very meticulous work. I got the compass installed, and put the panel and other parts in place on the lower frame. Notice the lovely Quinta details on the rudder pedals. The picture from Quinta instructions showed only part of the story for the shoulder straps, but I was able to get the other straps
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