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My F-5 Tiger II
REMF11M
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Posted: Wednesday, March 05, 2003 - 11:49 AM UTC
This is Italeri 1/72 F-5E Tiger II that I built OOB.
This was a fun and easy kit to build, took me about a week to build. All the parts fit together nice. It is all hand painted.
I didn't have time to put the decals on before the Army sent me on a little "vacation"







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Posted: Wednesday, March 05, 2003 - 11:52 AM UTC
It's looking good !
I like the aggressor paint scheme !
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Posted: Wednesday, March 05, 2003 - 12:00 PM UTC
Looks like a winner!
very good indeed...
Itīs an agressors scheme?
Cheers
Favorisio
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Posted: Wednesday, March 05, 2003 - 12:18 PM UTC
Looking good, like to see it with the decals on.

Enjoy your "vacation"

Roger
REMF11M
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Posted: Wednesday, March 05, 2003 - 01:16 PM UTC
No this is not an agressors scheme. I took the the paint scheme from the box and changed the colors to make it a desert scheme.

Here's the agressors desert scheme
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Posted: Wednesday, March 05, 2003 - 09:25 PM UTC
:-) Very nice F-5E, I admire your hand painting, I only ever use an airbrush. I particular like the second aircraft, looks almost real and that shodow box diorama is just amazing, really looks as if she's flying :-)
Mal
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Posted: Thursday, March 06, 2003 - 10:40 AM UTC
The pic of the agressors desert scheme is a real plane, I just posted it to show what that scheme looks like.
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Posted: Thursday, March 06, 2003 - 10:43 AM UTC
:-)
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Posted: Friday, March 07, 2003 - 05:35 AM UTC
I see where the movie "Top Gun" got the inspiration to use the F-5 for the Russian "Mig-28". Never seen the Russian star and the American isignia on the same plane before!! Would be a cool model!! I know they have a whole group of "Russian" planes to play with, never seen it though...

Great job on the model BTW!! Makes me want to go out and get one just to relive old memorys!!
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Posted: Friday, March 07, 2003 - 06:07 AM UTC
Brian, Twobobs does a whole range of aggressor aircraft decals. F-5, F-14, F-15, F-16, and F-18 are all represented in various scales.
REMF11M
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Posted: Saturday, March 08, 2003 - 01:01 PM UTC
Here's a link to some really good pic's of the navy's Agressor Squadron
http://clubhyper.com/reference/f5dp_1.htm

and some history on the unit
VFC-13 Page
chip250
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Posted: Saturday, March 08, 2003 - 07:29 PM UTC
That is really a work of art. It has a nice paint job! I guess a great paint job for a great plane Right?!! Love It!

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