F-204Z Twin-Starfilter (finished page 2)

[Tophe]

bigger size/different scale

I remember the very first twin-fuselage I saw. It was in 1977-78 (I was 13-14 years old): a very big Heinkel 111Z Italeri 1/72, made by a friend (colleague student) for the local model shop display, this was huge... And I did not imagined at all that many decades later I would become the World amateur expert about such twin-fuselage planes... My F-204Z today is not big:

[TallEng]

Cheers Tophe
The nice thing about your scale is it doesn't need quite so much space as a He 111Z.

Regards
Keith

[Tophe]

Yes, there are two phenomenons at the same time : span of He 111 is much more than F-204, scale 1/72 is twice bigger than my 1/144.
Paint will be much later, probably.

[Weaver]

Nice one Tophe - it's a shame that the tailplanes don't quite touch really isn't it?

Glad to hear you're okay re cancer.

[Tophe]

Thanks! (I was in holidays unable to answer).
The separate tails are not a problem I think, they simply look like He-111Z and PL-12 Airtruk. This is less solid than a common tailplane but that gives more elasticity margin maybe (if this F-204Z were a dogfighter)...
I plan to start painting today or tomorrow.

[Tophe]

Painting the underside has started:

[NARSES2]

Hope you had a good holiday Tophe 

[Tophe]

Thanks!
And I have started painting the side above, making the putty different colour disappear:

[chrisonord]

I like this, I  can just see some of those  causing  havoc  and being  intercepted by Buck Rodgers 

[Tophe]

Thanks! (feel free to imagine military version while mine is civilian or is a bird...)

Now I have coloured canopies, but the last drops of paint are drying, before the final pictures.

[Tophe]

The F-204Z Twin-Starfilter model is finished:

[ericr]

 

[Tophe]

Thanks!

Of course "mirror copy" and "bitmap editing" made triplex fuselage derivatives, three of them: