1/48 Classic Airframes Northrop F-5A

Gallery Article by Tolga ULGUR on Sept 17 2009

 

Northrop F-5A in TuAF

This is 1/48 Classic Airframes F-5A finished with Turkish Air Force markings. This ex-Norwegian freedom fighter (5-575) was in use between the mid of eighties and nineties by 5th AFB at Merzifon-Turkey.  

The construction started with cockpit.  The resin components are prepared and painted to “aircraft grey” with Gunze Sangyo acrylics. The seat belts are from my spare box.

Gunsight does not exist in the box. So it’s scratctbuilt. 

Natural metal painting was done with Alclad lacquers.

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National insignias, the flag and the numbers (5-575) are from “Turquoise Decals”. For the stencils I used the box contents. The numbers on the tail (575) are from my eternal spare box  

I had some problem during installation of windscreen.  The fit is not good. It needs some filling. Similar problems exist on the wing roots and wing tanks. Main wheel well covers are handmade. Because the parts from the box are “Thick as a brick “

Finally I replaced the pitot tube and glued opened canopy part. 

Happy Modelling

Tolga ULGUR

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Photos and text © by Tolga ULGUR