chuck540z3 Posted December 28, 2020 Author Share Posted December 28, 2020 10 minutes ago, Winnie said: I have another one for you.... The Canopy lever on the right hand windowsill is grey with a white end. Forward is locked. I never officially worked on it, but I worked at a museum in Norway and disassembled 104870's cockpit down to the bars bones. Cheers! Hi Winnie, I think you are half right. While your colors may be correct, I have to go by what the DACO book says below. With so many versions of this aircraft and many variations of CF-104's, if I can't find what I need for references, I need to default to this reference book. Please continue offering advice however. I need all the help I can get! Cheers, Chuck Winnie, Rockie Yarwood, levier and 2 others 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shark64 Posted December 28, 2020 Share Posted December 28, 2020 Great looking cockpit. Always a pleasure to see your work. Oliver Rockie Yarwood and chuck540z3 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chuck540z3 Posted December 28, 2020 Author Share Posted December 28, 2020 (edited) 11 hours ago, shark64 said: Great looking cockpit. Always a pleasure to see your work. Oliver Thank you Oliver very much. I do appreciate every single comment, correction, and sometimes just aircraft stories above that might make my threads more interesting to read, so I do them willingly and with some enthusiasm when I have reached a certain build point worthy of an update. I don't respond to all of them to try and keep the clutter count down, but I do appreciate and read every single one. Thanks Guys! Cheers, Chuck Edited December 28, 2020 by chuck540z3 dmthamade, Uncarina, Anthony in NZ and 3 others 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CShanne Posted December 28, 2020 Share Posted December 28, 2020 Your models are really fantastic, definitely something to work towards. I have been stalking your model building for years. I badly want an A-10C in 1/32 and I have read through your build at least 100 times. I am not yet ready to start that but I sure enjoy your work, it really is fantastic. The only part of your work that is bad, for me, is that I want to be that good now and I am just not there. I have picked the hobby up again after a few years and am surprised as to how much I have lost lost. Thank you for the motivation and the intimidation your F-104 is remarkable, as are all your others! chuck540z3, Rockie Yarwood, Out2gtcha and 1 other 3 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brett M Posted December 28, 2020 Share Posted December 28, 2020 (edited) Gotta agree 100% with your last comment, Chuck. Its nice to have a stay at home hobby we can turn to. Especially one that can be supported by internet orders! Brilliant work as always, and its great to see and learn more about the Starfighter. Edited December 28, 2020 by Brett M chuck540z3 and Rockie Yarwood 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dmthamade Posted December 28, 2020 Share Posted December 28, 2020 Super work as always chuck. Glad to see you do another Canadian build. Don chuck540z3 and Rockie Yarwood 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dmthamade Posted December 28, 2020 Share Posted December 28, 2020 Interesting vid on youtube, shows a Luftwaffe Zip being turned around. In german, but easy to see what they are doing. Rockie Yarwood and chuck540z3 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Finn Posted December 28, 2020 Share Posted December 28, 2020 Here is another video showing the canopy jettison thrusters being fired: Jari chuck540z3 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikeMaben Posted December 28, 2020 Share Posted December 28, 2020 13 hours ago, aircommando130 said: When I was a little guy and my dad was stationed at Edwards he's take me with him to the hanger on a Saturday if he needed to do something in his office. He'd tell me to watch for rattlesnakes and "don't touch anything" while I was loose in the hanger with F-104's and F-100's. I'd climb up boarding ladders and just look at the switches and instruments and the colors in the cockpits. And breath that electrical/sweat smell that airplanes have. Brings back memories Chuck! I'm surprised nobody has done a conversion yet to make the "G" model into a NF-104A Aerospace Trainer that was at Edwards. Cheers...Ron My Dad took me to Edwards once. He was an instrumentation technician on the SR-71 , Yf-12a. I wasn't allowed to leave the car. levier, ScoobyDoo and chuck540z3 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alaninaustria Posted December 28, 2020 Share Posted December 28, 2020 Awesome work Chuck! Cheers Alan chuck540z3 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aircommando130 Posted December 28, 2020 Share Posted December 28, 2020 10 hours ago, MikeMaben said: My Dad took me to Edwards once. He was an instrumentation technician on the SR-71 , Yf-12a. I wasn't allowed to leave the car. Oh dang! I know that sucked but I know why! Happy New Year and cheers...Ron MikeMaben 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marcel111 Posted December 28, 2020 Share Posted December 28, 2020 Cockpit looks just perfect, wow! Incredible how you can place those dials perfectly. Marcel chuck540z3 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GMK Posted December 28, 2020 Share Posted December 28, 2020 Always raising the bar, Chuck! Looking forward to seeing how your build develops. chuck540z3 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ScoobyDoo Posted December 29, 2020 Share Posted December 29, 2020 Fantastic work Chuck. If you aren’t happy with the handrails you can send me your cockpit and I’ll send you the one from my kit. I only worked on the 104 during OJT, I never had the type course. And my flight in the 104 was a case of me being at the right place at the right time and I had my High Altitude Indoctrination course. chuck540z3 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Winnie Posted December 29, 2020 Share Posted December 29, 2020 21 hours ago, Finn said: Here is another video showing the canopy jettison thrusters being fired: Jari That's 104637 in Norway. I played with that one too, but before they got permission to make it flyable again! chuck540z3 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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