Just keep practicing and work more and you will improve. Compare every new build to the previous one and watch the improvement. Even so, comparison is the theif of joy. Just have fun with it.
This is an incredible build. The F-104 was a great choice. It is one of my all time favorite fighters. Your weathering techniques is outstanding, and what I appreciate is how you use other colors than black to highlight the panels, so many overuse and misunderstand that. A five star build out of five stars.
If/when you make this model again I think that you should go 'That Far' on the weathering and damage. It would lake an excellent diorama piece 😀 I've only just found your channel, so I have some catching up to do. Thank you for sharing.
A good build and I like your videos. You've got the balance right between building and commentary. I must say I get bored when people talk for ages with no action, I think we need to see what is going on rather than listen to loads waffle. I agree with others on panel lining and washes. I hate it when some people cover the model with thick dark washes. It over emphasises panel lines and makes the model look too dark and like the model is dirty, and I don't mean authentic dirty.
Hello, if you are wanting to see a metal colour I have a made a video here th-cam.com/video/oeZ12iF26Ew/w-d-xo.html&lc=Ugy12P_L6s0GkbAxoVR4AaABAg. It's not on the Starfighter but may be of use. Thanks for watching :)
Watching your videos is like going to modelling university. I learn more in five minutes of your videos than I do in a whole year of trial and (lots of) error modelling. Thank you!
That takes me back. Despite living in the far SW UK we saw a interesting mix of fighters, maritime and transport aircraft. On our bike rides we go past the airfield and one time 8 Belgium F-104s howled across in formation and landed in the colours of the kit.
Haha guys like you are the reason, I won't start over making models again too soon... You're just too good, so I'm really spoiled with these great results - and I'd have to invest a good amount of money for all the equipment! Nice build and greetings from Germany!
Well I guess that's a good thing in a round about way and I'll take it as a compliment. Save yourself the time and effort and enjoy our work instead. Thanks for watching and I hope you enjoy my other content too :)
Outstanding job on this F104. You show a lot of patience as you detail your work. I wish I had been taught these techniques when I was building model aircraft back in the 1970s. Again, Fantastic work on this kit.
F-104 was the first jet I saw flying in person as a kid - it was LOUD!! So cool, best sound ever and forever in my memory bank. Great build! May try adding some wires to my wheel bays etc - if it doesn’t work I can always leave it off.
Outstanding job....beautifully done! What I really like about your builds which keeps me coming back is the detailed description of all processes and the tips you provide in the commentary. Thank you!
As usual beautiful job and build my friend. Toothpicks are an excellent detailing tool, I use them all the time for my small, intricate details. Have a good one, you and your family stay safe and healthy and always take care my friend
I've watched alot of builds and I love the way you explain the small details. Alot of builds just skip over the small things and you do a great job. your weathering parts and explaination are great. Keep up the great work.
My Kinetic Gold 1/48 F-104J has just arrived at my local hobby store and I’m heading there tomorrow to pick it up, this is the video that made me buy it. Looks like one of the best f104 kits out there currently. Kinetic gold is absolutely fantastic
Wow that's amazing! I hope you're getting on with it okay, the kit is superb and a real job to build. Kinetic gold from my experience with this one are some of the best kits right now
@@TheInnerNerd yeah man I’m on step 13 and I’m absolutely loving it! I’m taking my sweet old time with it and just finished outing together the fuselage halves. Tomorrow going to finish the tiny details and the landing gear, fantastic kit and can’t thank you enough for this video. It’s the reason why I got the kit and I fricken love it
Outstanding job! Great techniques, and; some great ideas. Particularly, the home made mottling mask. I did something similar many years ago using a piece of a worn out fly swatter. Using things at hand can be much more cost effective than paying for a model specific item. Sometimes with a much more realistic result. Again, great video.
Very nice model ! FX-90 flew with the Belgian Air Force from february 1965 till january 1987 (but the last Starfighter to fly with the Belgian Air Force was in 1983) , it then went into storage at Koksijde and now is on (sadly outside) public display in France at the Museum Savigny-Les-Beaune.
Great job! I saw a German Starfighter live at a musuem, it's actually quite big. One of my favorite planes, great lines and great performance for it's time.
For a splash of colour on natural metal Starfighters, techs used to add covers for the wings' leading edges. They were so sharp that they made covers from channel-aluminun and finished them in fluorescent red wit a Remove Before Flight tag at the outside end.
Love the F104 and would love to see a build in Italian colours one day, thanks for the video content they are invaluable to new builders and returning modelers alike i cant give you anything other than my best wishes and thanks again for the vids ! Regards Gav.
Awesome work! You demonstrated several weathering techniques I have been wanting to try and by you showing them how to do them, I feel more confident on trying them now.
Thank you, and yes, those Van Der Rosten spray mask things aren't very good in my opinion. I've got some and can't get along with them. Scouring pad for the win! Thanks for watching :)
I have made a bunch of Hasegawa F-104's over the years and I decided to give the Kinetic version a try. After watching this video I look forward to starting the building process. 😁
the videos are always very pleasant. your technique is perfect at each stage of the assembly. impress your tremendous ease in painting, making the camouflages so perfectly. admirable. Congratulations
Awesome build - I really like the way you described the way you did and clearly described the painting of the engine and weathering techniques. That's what's really holding me back from getting better builds - so need to try them on my current builds
Thank you. I try my best to actually describe what I'm doing rather than the video do the talking, I'm pleased to see it worked :) Thanks for watching :)
Thank you! And also thank you for the sub too - I'm not as active as I usually am right now since I'm buidling a whole new modelling studio after moving house. But over the next few months I should be back to uploading as I normally would. Glad to see you're enjoying my current content and thanks for watching :)
Will do! I'm going to make a time lapse of the build with a few detailed shorts of some of the things I make in there which I'll upload onto my public Patreon page. I know people have shown interest in the photo booth setup I have as well as some other bits and pieces to do with my modelling setup. Stay tuned and they'll be live over the coming months :)
Elegant work! A good balance of weathering and wear, without looking ready to be put paid. If you would like a real challenge, build a flight of four or so wheels-up, in an in-flight forced perspective diorama, a pilot in the driver's seat of each. One would be in 1:32nd scale, the second in 1:48th, the third in 1:72nd, and the last in 1:144th scale. (I might have seen one in 1:100th scale, and another in in 1:200th scale, but I cannot be certain.) They obviously would be of the same air force, of the same squadron, in identical paint scheme (well, natural metal), identical markings, except for the individual aircraft identification.
I would LOVE to see a 1970s USAF F104 Starfighter painted in the highly polished aluminum chase plane livery. That one would be a challenge! Those observation chase planes were used for dignitary and high ranking officer reviews of new planes. These F104s were kept much cleaner than usual and the bare aluminum was polished up like chrome plating.
Kinetic have now made the F-104C version so I will definitely be building that sometime in the future. That one comes with a NMF scheme which looks amazing on these things... Anyway more models to build first! Thanks for watching and stay tuned :)
Really great video mate, im currently building a 1/48th e2c 2000 hawkeye by Kinetic ( Italeri rebox) and after watching you blending with oils im thinking about giving it a go myself. I've always had bad experiences due to rushing them but the results you got out of the oils is amazing
The F-104 out-fought everything from that time period. Computer simulations have shown that the faster jet did much better during the age of guns, since it could control the pace of the fight, leaving and re-entering battle as desired. I have like 10 F-104 books, but they all seem to have the same pictures. Art books have provided me a much-needed escape from real life. When life was difficult I'd set up my easy chair with coffee, a desk lamp and a stack of art books beside me. They kept me going during the hardest times. My art books are the best investments I ever made. My 3 favorite books are: - Wonderworks by Michael Whelan - Beyond the Horizon by John Harris - Great Fighter Jets of the Galaxy 1 by Tim Gibson
DId anyone else notice the little red spider checking out his awesome airplane at 31:10? Fantastic model!!!
Yep 😂 I believe it was very happy with the results😂
I mite have seen it.
@@ChazCharlie1
*ba dum tss* 🥁 😂 🤣 😅
Haha I thought I'd leave this in for a bit of fun. It's my new mascot - Red Five (get the reference...) 🤓
@@TheInnerNerd I see a star wars fan, i press like.
I feel so inadequate after watching this and looking at my builds. Great build and great narrative. Cheers
Just work your best. A rare few of us polystyrene addicts are of professional calibre; certainly not I am!
Just keep practicing and work more and you will improve. Compare every new build to the previous one and watch the improvement.
Even so, comparison is the theif of joy. Just have fun with it.
This is an incredible build. The F-104 was a great choice. It is one of my all time favorite fighters. Your weathering techniques is outstanding, and what I appreciate is how you use other colors than black to highlight the panels, so many overuse and misunderstand that. A five star build out of five stars.
If/when you make this model again I think that you should go 'That Far' on the weathering and damage. It would lake an excellent diorama piece 😀
I've only just found your channel, so I have some catching up to do. Thank you for sharing.
Thank you and thanks for watching :)
Nice build of what looks like a very decent kit
Absolutely award worthy painting.
Thank you and thanks for watching :)
Love the orange tanks! Really sets off the rest of the model.
Yes as soon as I saw one when looking for references I had to include it in the build. Works well against the green. Thanks for watching :)
A good build and I like your videos. You've got the balance right between building and commentary. I must say I get bored when people talk for ages with no action, I think we need to see what is going on rather than listen to loads waffle. I agree with others on panel lining and washes. I hate it when some people cover the model with thick dark washes. It over emphasises panel lines and makes the model look too dark and like the model is dirty, and I don't mean authentic dirty.
Flaps on landing position and leading edge flaps on neutral position.... compliments! very good job!
You know quite well the aircraft...!
Brilliant build! I love the F-104, would love to see you build another in natural metal finish.
Thank you. Kinetic have now released an F-104C so that will definitely appear at some point over the coming years. Thanks for watching :)
Cant wait for this one.
The 104 is going to be my next if i can find it :)
I would love to see this in the metal color. And it would be instructive.
Hello, if you are wanting to see a metal colour I have a made a video here th-cam.com/video/oeZ12iF26Ew/w-d-xo.html&lc=Ugy12P_L6s0GkbAxoVR4AaABAg. It's not on the Starfighter but may be of use. Thanks for watching :)
Watching your videos is like going to modelling university. I learn more in five minutes of your videos than I do in a whole year of trial and (lots of) error modelling. Thank you!
Thank you and thanks for watching :)
That takes me back. Despite living in the far SW UK we saw a interesting mix of fighters, maritime and transport aircraft. On our bike rides we go past the airfield and one time 8 Belgium F-104s howled across in formation and landed in the colours of the kit.
One of the best modelling channels on You Tube....splitting the cocktail stick...Genius!
High praise! Thank you!! I'll keep pushing what I know in each video and try to learn something new each time for myself.
Haha guys like you are the reason, I won't start over making models again too soon... You're just too good, so I'm really spoiled with these great results - and I'd have to invest a good amount of money for all the equipment! Nice build and greetings from Germany!
Well I guess that's a good thing in a round about way and I'll take it as a compliment. Save yourself the time and effort and enjoy our work instead. Thanks for watching and I hope you enjoy my other content too :)
Outstanding job on this F104. You show a lot of patience as you detail your work. I wish I had been taught these techniques when I was building model aircraft back in the 1970s. Again, Fantastic work on this kit.
Thank you and thanks for watching :)
Found your channel recently and have begun binge watching. You make me want to pick up this hobby back up after a 30 year hiatus. More! More! More! 😁
Hello and welcome, I hope you'll stay and are enjoying the content so far! More on the way! Thanks for watching :)
F-104, it's my favorite fighter. Also it's very fine and politely work. Looks good and doesn't looks like a model.
Thanks for uploading.
F-104 was the first jet I saw flying in person as a kid - it was LOUD!! So cool, best sound ever and forever in my memory bank. Great build! May try adding some wires to my wheel bays etc - if it doesn’t work I can always leave it off.
In Italy the sound of the Starfighter was nicknamed "il lamento del contribuente", which roughly translates to "the taxpayer's wail" :D
@@TLTeo
LOL that's a very accurate description.
Outstanding job....beautifully done! What I really like about your builds which keeps me coming back is the detailed description of all processes and the tips you provide in the commentary. Thank you!
Loving this new descriptive style, and great work on the model!
Yes, the little red spider if you need one is Lockheed part number 85000-999x
As usual beautiful job and build my friend. Toothpicks are an excellent detailing tool, I use them all the time for my small, intricate details. Have a good one, you and your family stay safe and healthy and always take care my friend
Well done. Nice kit and a great finish! Well done. Greetings Ben
Hi Ben. Thanks very much :)
Great plane and a great build. Thank You! Takes me back to my Cold War childhood!
Excellent build and I really appreciate your explanations of your weathering techniques
Awesome work, and very inspiring. I especially enjoyed your splattering technique for the exhaust. Thanks for sharing your work.
Thank you and thanks for watching :)
no other channel on this theme can compete with you on youtube.... gold standart!!!
Wow thank you and thanks for watching :)
Beautiful F-104 Starfigther...from Brazil...
I've watched alot of builds and I love the way you explain the small details. Alot of builds just skip over the small things and you do a great job. your weathering parts and explaination are great. Keep up the great work.
Thank you and thanks for watching :)
Such a Beautiful and yes please build another one in natural metal finish!
My Kinetic Gold 1/48 F-104J has just arrived at my local hobby store and I’m heading there tomorrow to pick it up, this is the video that made me buy it. Looks like one of the best f104 kits out there currently. Kinetic gold is absolutely fantastic
Wow that's amazing! I hope you're getting on with it okay, the kit is superb and a real job to build. Kinetic gold from my experience with this one are some of the best kits right now
@@TheInnerNerd yeah man I’m on step 13 and I’m absolutely loving it! I’m taking my sweet old time with it and just finished outing together the fuselage halves. Tomorrow going to finish the tiny details and the landing gear, fantastic kit and can’t thank you enough for this video. It’s the reason why I got the kit and I fricken love it
Outstanding job! Great techniques, and; some great ideas. Particularly, the home made mottling mask. I did something similar many years ago using a piece of a worn out fly swatter. Using things at hand can be much more cost effective than paying for a model specific item. Sometimes with a much more realistic result. Again, great video.
Very nice model ! FX-90 flew with the Belgian Air Force from february 1965 till january 1987 (but the last Starfighter to fly with the Belgian Air Force was in 1983) , it then went into storage at Koksijde and now is on (sadly outside) public display in France at the Museum Savigny-Les-Beaune.
Very nice work, love the starfighter.Absolutly awesome paint and weathering job,beautiful.
Man.................Now that was Nerd-A-Liscious, wow. With this video I really noticed and appreciated your cinematic and video editing skills.
Great job! I saw a German Starfighter live at a musuem, it's actually quite big. One of my favorite planes, great lines and great performance for it's time.
For a splash of colour on natural metal Starfighters, techs used to add covers for the wings' leading edges. They were so sharp that they made covers from channel-aluminun and finished them in fluorescent red wit a Remove Before Flight tag at the outside end.
Love the F104 and would love to see a build in Italian colours one day, thanks for the video content they are invaluable to new builders and returning modelers alike i cant give you anything other than my best wishes and thanks again for the vids ! Regards Gav.
Great the f104 was one kf my fav cold war era fighters. Ty for the video
Very nice! Master Modeler!
One of the best builds I’ve seen yet. Great work man!
Thank you and thanks for watching :)
Outstanding work.
Awesome work! You demonstrated several weathering techniques I have been wanting to try and by you showing them how to do them, I feel more confident on trying them now.
You totally aced it man!!!!
Fantastic work here on the Starfighter. Good choice with the orange fuel tanks. Looks more interesting with this colour.
Superb work!! Love the homemade 'mottle stencil'!
Thank you, and yes, those Van Der Rosten spray mask things aren't very good in my opinion. I've got some and can't get along with them. Scouring pad for the win! Thanks for watching :)
One of my favorite aircrafts! Please make more with some silver US texture and some nice decals!)
great build! i really like the orange fuel tanks, something extraordinary!
*The F-104G from Kinetic ... a futur purchase! Technics of weathering are well mastered, the result is so amazing! 👍👍👍*
Another cracking build and video, mate!
Fantastic result, outstanding work.
Thank you and thanks for watching :)
I have made a bunch of Hasegawa F-104's over the years and I decided to give the Kinetic version a try. After watching this video I look forward to starting the building process. 😁
Great job
Well good job you sure do a very good job of ageing this plane.
Great looking kit !
That is amazing. I have one to build, and im so looking forward to making it now.
Thank you, it's a great kit, one of the best I've built. Thanks for watching :)
Superb work!👏👏👏👏
the videos are always very pleasant. your technique is perfect at each stage of the assembly. impress your tremendous ease in painting, making the camouflages so perfectly. admirable. Congratulations
Fantastic paint and weathering! 👍
Wow! Beautiful.
Thank you and thanks for watching :)
wow, very detail and amazing repaint
Thank you and thanks for watching:)
Awesome job!! After all this time I have been watching your videos I realized I was never subscribed!!! 🤦🏽 but that changed today. 🙂
Thank you and pleased to hear that you’ve now subscribed as well 😄 Thanks for watching :)
Awesome build - I really like the way you described the way you did and clearly described the painting of the engine and weathering techniques. That's what's really holding me back from getting better builds - so need to try them on my current builds
Thank you. I try my best to actually describe what I'm doing rather than the video do the talking, I'm pleased to see it worked :) Thanks for watching :)
Im a recent subscriber, these builds are world class.
Thank you! And also thank you for the sub too - I'm not as active as I usually am right now since I'm buidling a whole new modelling studio after moving house. But over the next few months I should be back to uploading as I normally would. Glad to see you're enjoying my current content and thanks for watching :)
@@TheInnerNerd send some pics of the studio..do you do builds for customers.?
Will do! I'm going to make a time lapse of the build with a few detailed shorts of some of the things I make in there which I'll upload onto my public Patreon page. I know people have shown interest in the photo booth setup I have as well as some other bits and pieces to do with my modelling setup. Stay tuned and they'll be live over the coming months :)
Nice build...the music is great!!!...
Thanks you and thanks for watching :)
Super build!
Elegant work! A good balance of weathering and wear, without looking ready to be put paid.
If you would like a real challenge, build a flight of four or so wheels-up, in an in-flight forced perspective diorama, a pilot in the driver's seat of each. One would be in 1:32nd scale, the second in 1:48th, the third in 1:72nd, and the last in 1:144th scale. (I might have seen one in 1:100th scale, and another in in 1:200th scale, but I cannot be certain.)
They obviously would be of the same air force, of the same squadron, in identical paint scheme (well, natural metal), identical markings, except for the individual aircraft identification.
Thank you and thanks for watching. It sounds like a huge project but interesting for sure!
I would LOVE to see a 1970s USAF F104 Starfighter painted in the highly polished aluminum chase plane livery. That one would be a challenge! Those observation chase planes were used for dignitary and high ranking officer reviews of new planes. These F104s were kept much cleaner than usual and the bare aluminum was polished up like chrome plating.
Kinetic have now made the F-104C version so I will definitely be building that sometime in the future. That one comes with a NMF scheme which looks amazing on these things... Anyway more models to build first! Thanks for watching and stay tuned :)
Outstanding build, technique, and instruction! You are very, very talented my friend! Mike G
Very good model.
Wow!! very impressive!!
Yes another one please in the Canadian Armed Forces Europe 1 CAG camouflage scheme from the late 70's early 80's.
this!! ^^^^^^
My favourite aircraft, of course you should do another one! I vote for an Italian model, they had some cool camos too.
Cool!... sleek and chic 👍
Remarkable a fantastic job and I love the way you did your weather in learnt a lot from it
Outstanding! I'm just starting the Eduard f-104j eiko.
Another amazing build, I have this in the stash and now want to build it! Lovely subtle weathering, congrats!
beaut ! I love that seas camo too !
Thank you. The Asia II camo is my favourite on this aircraft. I'll be back to build an F104C though sometime! Thanks again for watching :)
You’ve done a lovely looking aircraft justice there.
Excellent my friend. Thank you.
Absolutely fantastic! 👍
Beautifully built and a great video. A German Marine version would look nice or Canadian in natural metal
Hi Nigel, you have done a great job on the F-104, and you have yourself another subscrber, keep safe.
Really great video mate, im currently building a 1/48th e2c 2000 hawkeye by Kinetic ( Italeri rebox) and after watching you blending with oils im thinking about giving it a go myself. I've always had bad experiences due to rushing them but the results you got out of the oils is amazing
Amazing build! Would be amazing to see a Danish airforce F-104 in a white/silver painting.
Yes! Absolutely yes! 😀👍
Nice video. I like the new style. The build is great!
Absolutly awesome job. Teriffic model and great movie.
I think once I have to give the NASA version a try
Absolutely brilliant work, bravo 👏
great video awesome work model looks great.
Love your work.
Thank you and thanks for watching :)
Outstanding please do another
nice weathering techniques!
Very nice build! I've got the same kit in my stash, and I bought myself Caracal Models' Nasa Starfighter decals (CD48161) to go with the kit :)
That blue-and-white scheme is sharp!
I built the 1/72 scale Hasegawa F-104 in the NASA scheme some years ago. It's a beautiful scheme alright.
Awesome video thank you very talented
Yes! Something for my tired eyes 👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏😉
Excellent build always learn new methods when viewing your channel.Please build one with bare metal finish.
Superbe Work. Absolutly Stunning
Thank you and thanks for watching :)
The F-104 out-fought everything from that time period. Computer simulations have shown that the faster jet did much better during the age of guns, since it could control the pace of the fight, leaving and re-entering battle as desired. I have like 10 F-104 books, but they all seem to have the same pictures.
Art books have provided me a much-needed escape from real life. When life was difficult I'd set up my easy chair with coffee, a desk lamp and a stack of art books beside me. They kept me going during the hardest times. My art books are the best investments I ever made.
My 3 favorite books are:
- Wonderworks by Michael Whelan
- Beyond the Horizon by John Harris
- Great Fighter Jets of the Galaxy 1 by Tim Gibson
Another stunning build! 👍
That enginne painting method is quite ingenious. Nice job all over. (And I agree with you about the black panel lines. Those are always atrocious.)
Hot damn, turned out great