F-5A 1/48 Testors HAF

Nikolaos Kouzinis
An old kit. First I replace the pilot and the pilot's seat Icutted the flaps. In progress...

Carlos Cisneros
I'm going to watch this project!

Nikolaos Kouzinis
The kit has a good application without problems in general. The only mistake is the carriers on the wings where the instructions are wrongly given by the small body on the outside of the wing and the larger one on the inside. And of course I did the mistake because now I can not correct it by changing their positions because they fixed very well and any intervention will cause great damage. Also, the points of application of the carriers with the wing have different recess and application length, so it does not prejudge you to make the change if you do not look for the real plans of the aircraft and if you follow the instructions, unfortunately you make the mistake.

Carlos Cisneros
I like the dropped flaps! That's a very nice touch.

Maciej Bellos
It looks very good Niko!

Nikolaos Kouzinis
Thank you guys. I made some changes to the both sides tail colour forms because was wrong and now I believe is correct as the original colour plane aircraft.

Nikolaos Kouzinis
The kit is very very simple. It has a small piece for pilot instruments only without instruments. I replaced it with a panel from spares parts. The pilot chair was very simple so I used an other more better from Mig-21 (spare part). I made the right and left cockpit instruments panels.I made holes for machine guns. There were n't nests for lights (tail-wings). I made them (wings with trasparrent plastic red green). The red light of tail is from the red magnet of an old memory disc. It has both red trasparrent sides as I wanted for that kind of light. Work in progress...

Nikolaos Kouzinis
Original for this kit is that although old it gives a mechanism to open and close the cockpit cover. A pioneering thing for an old model that today's models do not give. Remarkable is the perfect application that many current kits do not have, despite being designed with computers. The philosophy of assembling the fuselage with 2 one-piece pieces is much more ergonomic than that of Kinetic which divides the fuselage into 4 parts and creates application problems. For the pilot's mirrors I used metallic film from an old cell phone screen.