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Kinetic: Starfighter Sprues & Test Build
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Posted: Thursday, July 11, 2019 - 09:09 AM UTC


Kinetic Models has released a great many images of their new tool 1/48 scale F-104G Starfighter which be released in the ‘Kinetic Gold’ series

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Grindcore
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Posted: Friday, July 12, 2019 - 01:06 AM UTC
That looks really nice, but something looks wrong with the front windshield.
Jessie_C
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Posted: Friday, July 12, 2019 - 01:59 AM UTC

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That looks really nice, but something looks wrong with the front windshield.



The frames for the centre panel may be a bit thin, compared to the real thing:
redcap
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Posted: Friday, July 12, 2019 - 04:13 AM UTC
I like Kinnetic kits (their SU-33 is superb) but I see nothing here to make me ditch my 20+ years old Hasegawa F-104 kits. I appreciate the 'issue' the Has' kit has with riveted wings, but that's a 2 hours max job with some Mr Surfacer.

The cockpit and other details on this new kit certainly don't seem to be a significant improvement on the Hasegawa kit which builds beautifully.

Gary
Jessie_C
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Posted: Friday, July 12, 2019 - 09:09 AM UTC
Plus, if you have silly amounts of money, you can get the DACO improvement kit and end up with tons of spares box fodder.
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