F-104G Italian Air Force 3rd Wing
Villafranca
Hi to everybody.
This is my second submission to ARC and this time I chose an Italian Air Force
aircraft, the F-104G. It is a very well known subject especially for the ITAF
enthusiasts. The kit is a Revell 1/72 and I just decided to build it straight out
of the box adding only a TAURO decal set dedicated to Desert Storm aircraft.
The Tauro decal sheet provides enough material to "cover" 2 birds, an
F-104G based in Turkey in 1991 and a "yellow sand" Tornado based in Al
Dhafra. The kit is pretty simple with a little bit more than 50 pieces total.
I
started with the cockpit adding only scratchbuilt seatbelts and then assembling
the rest of
the aircraft. After attaching and masking the canopy, I gave the whole plane a
layer of matt Tamiya grey. After that I gave it another two hands of the same colour
that is the same of the mimetic scheme used by 104 at that time.
Once the paint was dry I masked the plane to spray the green flat Tamiya acrylic paint
and completing the top half mimetic scheme.
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I let it everything
dry and after two days I began masking the top half plane I painted the bottom
with X-11 Tamiya acrylic paint. Two layers of gloss Tamiya varnish and I started
to apply decals of "Buscaglia" squadron. They are very nice and thin
except for some silvering appearing after a while (probably not enough skills on
my building techniques...anyway I'll work better next time...). For weathering I
used an oil wash using black and covering it with Tamiya smoke airbrushing it
following the mimetic scheme.
It was a quite fast
building concentrating more on improving the paint and weathering technique.
Hope you enjoy the pics!!
Greeting from Italy
and hope to post again soon my next model.
Fabio Bongiorno
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