1/48 Kinetic F-5A Freedom Fighter

Gallery Article by Tolga Ülgür on July 14 2015

 

      

F-5A Freedom Fighter TuAF

This is my 1/48 Kinetic F-5A in TuAF markings circa 1971.

The kit is designed in modular fashion, boding well for a variety of F-5 types to be done. Basically, The kit fuselage is broken down into forward and rear sections, so more variants are obviously planned.

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The kit comes with complete intakes, a nice touch, though perhaps somewhat difficult to build and eliminate the seam that runs down the length on both sides.

The instrument panel is not accurate for a classic F-5A. It s a kind of modernized version. So it needs some correction. I used the Eduard PE instrument panel for correction. But this time the color of the PE instrument panel was wrong.  It s a purplish color. That's why I repainted it to the accurate cockpit grey color. Second modification is the Wolfpack F-5A seat.

The kit went together easily, but with some problems. Multi part air intake area needs some works with puttying and sanding.

Painting was done with Gunze Sangyo acrylics. Decals are from Turquoise decal set and my spare box.

Thanks to Ozkan Turker and Levent Basara for their support during project.

Happy modelling

Tolga Ülgür

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Photos and text © by Tolga Ülgür