Subject: Re: Please post on 17 May 2008, Norwegian Constitution Day- Thanks, Steve
From: "Submissions for ARC" <[email-masked]>
To: "John Peters" <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 7 May 2008 14:19:27 -0700

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

Steve Bamford
Aircraft Resource Center
http://www.aircraftresourcecenter.com

Live like there is no tomorrow;
Love like you've never been hurt.
Work like you don't need the money.
Dance like nobody's watching.
Sing like nobody's listening.
Live like it's Heaven on Earth.

  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: John Peters 
  To: [email-masked] 
  Sent: Sunday, April 27, 2008 5:11 PM
  Subject: Please post on 17 May 2008, Norwegian Constitution Day- Thanks, Steve

    
  Aircraft of the RNoAF

  CF-104 and F-16AM

  Syttende Mai 2008

  by John Peters
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  Being the semi-lazy sort, building these particular models seemed like a really good idea.  I can induldge in my favorite hobby, and celebrate my Norwegian heritage at the same time.  

  The CF-104 is the 1/32 Hasegawa F-104G kit with the addition of a CAM C2 seat and a pair of resin external fuel tanks by PWMP.  I scratch-built the RWR antennas under the nose and tail, and managed to make the rear antennas a bit over-sized.  Perhaps I'll correct them later...riiiight.  I'm lucky if I finish putting all the little fiddly bits on a model in the first place.   The paint scheme is not completely accurate.  There's supposed to be a feathered edge where the green meets the gray.  After several botched attempts, I gave up and gave it a hard edge.  The decals came from Vingtor and went on with no problems.

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  I've always found F-16s rather...uninspiring.  It was only the Norwegian Nordic Tiger decals by Zotz that provided the impetus I needed to build a Law...er, Viper.  The model started as a 1/32 Hasegawa F-16A, with the parapack and birdslicer IFF antennas robbed from the Academy F-16C kit.  The parapack was grafted onto the Hase vertical stab, with the antennas modified to more accurately portray the -16A parapack.  I had no problems with the Zotz decals, but the Hasegawa stencilling was another story.  Uff da.  This is far from my best build, and thus sits behind the CF-104 on my shelf.  It doesn't look too bad when viewed that way. 

  It wasn't until I was photographing the models that I noticed I had forgotten one of the nav lights on the spine of the 104.  Adding that is right up there next to fixing the RWR antennas on my "To Do" list.  Or maybe taking up Photoshop should be my next hobby?

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  Photos and text © by John Peters