Subject: Re: 1/72 Italeri & Hasegawa CF104 - Canadian Forces
From: "Submissions for ARC" <[email-masked]>
To: "ALESSANDRO CIMENTI" <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 10 Jul 2011 13:47:11 -0700

Hi,
I just wanted to let you know your article went on ARC today.  Thanks again for sending it in.

Steve Bamford
ARC Air - Aircraft Resource Center
http://www.arcair.com

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  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: ALESSANDRO CIMENTI 
  To: [email-masked] 
  Sent: Saturday, July 02, 2011 7:19 AM
  Subject: 1/72 Italeri & Hasegawa CF104 - Canadian Forces

        1/72 Italeri & Hasegawa CF104 - Canadian Forces

        by Alex Cimenti

        Good Canada day to everyone, just a few days ago I finished a couple of CF104 Starfighters in full smart Canadian markings, for the occasion I made two 1/72 kits, one from a box dedicated to the CF104 of Hasegawa (in natural metal with red tail), the other is an old ESCI (now Italeri) F104G kit but with some parts coming from Hasegawa, or scratch built and painted in the last camo scheme applied to canadian starfighters in Europe.

        Full size version of photo01 here

        The assembly of the two models is quite simple and do not require much extra work, obviously the Hasegawa kit has a superior quality compared to the old ESCI one, but both gave me juts little problems except for the lack of interior detail for the italian one.

        Clickable version of Photo02 here                                   Clickable version of Photo03 here

        One of the main concerns for the Italeri model was the poor cockpit details, that have been improved with scratchbuilt and spare Hasegawa parts, and the wing tip tanks, that are in the wrong format (underscaled diameter and other issues) as well the main gear and the canopy size, that had to be modified and detailed.
        I also modified some old Monogram F104C underwing tanks with scratchbuilt fins, the result is pretty good, and gave me a lot of satisfaction once fitted to the Italeri example.

        Clickable version of Photo04 here                                   Clickable version of Photo05 here

        The camo version of the CAF Starfigher (1st Group - Air Baden Sollingen - Germany) have been made with full load of 5 x Mk82 snakeye retarded bombs, the double underwing ejector has been made by scratch using Belcher Bits external store drawings as reference.

        Clickable version of Photo06 here

        The decals come from the Hasegawa box, that gives the modellers option for all three main paint scheme used by Canadian starfighters during their service, natural metal, khaki green and three tone low viz camo.
        Next one will be a khaki green CF104 using the last CAF decals of the box and again a lot of scratchbuilt work.

        Happy modelling and Happy Canada day to everyone