This is
my 24th Starfighter. My SIXTH big scale Hasegawa one. I have been getting good
deals on these things. Some from ARC's best trader DonG, and others from hobby
shows. This one was a parts kit from a show. It started as a F-104C. Lucky the
cut away CF-104 style tail was still in the box. The landing gear was badly
damaged. I tried to fix it during my last build but it would not work. So, I
made this one wheels up. That went surprisingly well.
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To make
it wheels up I needed a stand strong enough for a 1/32 scale kit. I had a coat
hanger in the basement with a star base for years not doing anything. So I built
the kit around the coat hook. Finished the model and started the paint. The
difficulty on this paint scheme was not the yellow and black but the white. Under all
the decals is the white. In 1/48 scale you can use Belcher Bits decals for this
project. In 1/32 the white backgrounds do not exist. Hence, paint. The decals
used are a mix of Leading Edge and Canuck.