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Robert Podkoński
Taking a seat here as well 😉

Roland Sachsenhofer
An ambitious project: I am building this TF-104 in Italian colours for a friend. The two-seater starfighter brings a welcome and extremely good-looking change to the currently somewhat corrugated metal-dominated modelling scene! In the cockpit of this beautiful Hasegawa kit you can see Eduard's cockpit interior made from etched parts.

Vincent
This already looks great!

Roland Sachsenhofer
Thank you Vincent!

Roland Sachsenhofer
I've just realised that it's been a while since my last update here, so here are a few new pictures! This is the current state this morning, but today Gunze H 308 will also be applied over everything as a surface colour for the attractive Italian machine. The build itself, a friendship build for a friend, will be built with the Eduard etched parts out of the box except for the cockpit.

Roland Sachsenhofer
The Starfighter in the smart Italian colours is slowly but surely crossing the finish line: now all that remains to be done is to put the finishing touches to the last few areas that still need attention or correction. These include the position lights, which still need to be sealed with Klearfix, and a few traces of dirt and wear on the underside. Hasegawa's F-104 is still a beautiful kit that forms a good basis. However, I did a lot of upgrading on the seats and especially on the inside of the open cockpit canopies, using wire, etched parts and Tamiya masking tape. At least it now looks better than before! 🙂

Jakub Fiala
It looks perfect, to me 👍

Michael Kohl
The Italians squeezed the last drop out of the Starfighter. Beautiful model you build.

Roland Sachsenhofer
Jakub and Michael, your comments are very appreciated, thank you both!

Juergen Klinglhuber
Boa,.....😉 oder wie die Nicht-ÖO sagen würden WOW
Sehr fesch geworden.

Roland Sachsenhofer
Thanks Jürgen, the 'boah-wow' is very appreciated! 🙂
I will send you a few pictures of the now really finished TF-104G later. This was a very nice, refreshing project for me without long sanding and filling sessions but, despite the solid Hasegawa quality, with a certain amount of scratch-built parts. I did the modelling of the two open cockpit canopies myself, as these should not remain empty when they are shown open.
I don't think this will be the last build of this fascinating aircraft!

Mr James
So very good. The last few pics look so realistic. This is excellent paint and weathering.

Robert Podkoński
Awesome photos indeed, and the fantastic model.

Guy Rump
Initially, I thought the photo was the real thing, awesome modelling and photography. 👍

Vincent
I agree with everyone above. Great photos and amazing result!

Roland Sachsenhofer
I am very happy about your positive reactions - thanks for that, mates!
Scale remains scale and model remains model and it makes me happy when the modelling skills behind it are judged positively, but I'm still amused at the moment to make the final pictures look as 'real' as possible. If that's how it comes across, then that motivates me!

René "Lord Bilbo" Bartholemy
Sehr gute Zusammenfassung, Roland. Gibt mir Lust um mein Kit endlich zu Ende zu bauen.
Ich habe allerdings eine Frage: das "Wellblech" "wellt sich" auch innen, oder? Das fehlt mir irgendwie im Cockpit des Bausatzes...
Ich hatte da ein paar Sachen probiert, aber ohne Erfolg.
René

Roland Sachsenhofer
Potzblitz! Erwischt! 🙂 Thank you, Rene, I've obviously missed something important - I think you're absolutely right about the corrugated metal interior structure! Now that you've indicated that you've thought about a solution, I've also considered how to improve this..... I might try using black decal strips next time to at least give a visual hint of the structure, but I'm sure there are even more sophisticated approaches.

Gerald
Hello Welcome here 😉

damavik
Thanks!
Nice to see you too!

Robert Podkoński
Wow! This is going to be a true masterpiece... Watching with pleasure and interest!

Ben M
🤯

CaptGPF
That PE work is insane! Gotta watch this!

Michael Kohl
Very interesting project

Pietro De Angelis
😲

gorby
Looks very interesting build.

Desert Marlin
Oh, very nice!

Hanno Kleinecke
Hell(cat) yeah ! 👍

Mr D
Wow 😲 brilliant 👌👌👍

John Thomas
Very nice work

Desert Marlin
Okay, that's getting crazy good!

Lorraine Lin
Thank you for the encouragement, will keep on working on this.

Lochsa River
very cool....

Pepe
😳😳😳😍

Neuling
Wow !

David Taylor
Wow.