GAF Grumman Tiger

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April 25, 2015
I'm actually using a Korean knock-off of the Hasegawa 1/72 Tiger. Not too awful bad, just some odd molding imperfections here & there. Picked it up for very cheap anyway. BTW, unless one uses BOILING water, the decals are NOT coming off that paper!!
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April 25, 2015
Tried to paint a German flag on the pilot's coveralls. Didn't come out a well as I had hoped. I don't have a photo but when I when to put a couple of fishing weights in the nose, I put one too far forward and had to un-glue it and move it back.
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April 25, 2015
I still have to make two more Sidewinder launch rails. This Tiger will have some teeth - 8 AIM-9's plus it's four 20mm cannon! 😉
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April 25, 2015
I'm using an old sheet from an Italeri F-104G Starfighter, along with the kit and some aftermarket decals.

25 April 2015, 22:43

Thomas Bischoff
I built this kit years and years ago! I look forward to the final result

26 April 2015, 08:29

Calvin Gifford
☻

26 April 2015, 21:12

John Thomas
Cool idea

27 April 2015, 12:39

Calvin Gifford
Thanks!

28 April 2015, 07:24

Burkhard D
Great idea - not even outlandish, could have happened!

13 August 2015, 09:44

Holger Kranich
Btw Calvin, its not a Luftwaffe bird you wanna depict, its a Navy one😢

13 August 2015, 11:16

Calvin Gifford
You are correct but at the time I was not certain I could find decals for a Marineflieger version! 🙂 That is right Burkhard. General Wernher Panitzki himself, years later, wrote that he very much regretted giving in to the political pressure from above - stemming from the massive bribes Lockheed had given Messerschmitt-Fokker-Fiat.

13 August 2015, 18:35

Burkhard D
Later it could have been replaced in German service by the F-20 then. The program was reportedly offered wholesale to the German industry at one point in time. A what-if on my project list, next to the X-29 in German markings 🙂

BTW, very nice F-104S in your Gallery over on IMPS/USA 👍👍👍
web.ipmsusa3.org/con..ro-1-limited-edition

14 August 2015, 08:54

Calvin Gifford
Yes, a very nice 1/48 F-104S indeed! Hmmm... a GAF F-20! Nice!

14 August 2015, 16:51

Holger Kranich
GAF F-20? GAF X-29?So less time, so much to build...😄

17 August 2015, 06:29

Calvin Gifford
😉

17 August 2015, 09:04