The BASIC entry level of kabuki masks for the Chilean F-5E Tiger III upgrade in 1:48 scale. The simplest way to get the cockpit frames into sharp lines.
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At the turn of the 1980s and 1990s the Chilean Air Force had its F-5Es rebuilt to the standard designated Tiger III. An Israeli radar went into the lengthened nose, the cockpit was given new displays and the machine learned to carry air-to-air missiles of Western as well as Israeli manufacture. From the light day fighter that the F-5E originally was, it thus became a fully capable multirole aircraft that served well beyond the year 2000.
The cockpit of a Tiger is fairly small, but there are surprisingly many frames on it and all of them are narrow. Cutting tape by hand right on the model at such dimensions means balancing between too wide and too thin a strip, and both cases show after spraying. A ready-made cutout removes that uncertainty: the width of a frame is given and all of them come out the same.
BASIC is the entry level in the brand's line, and its scope is the narrowest of the three variants made for this machine. Anyone who only wants to deal with the glazing and sort the rest out their own way reaches for this one.
Never take hold of clear parts with bare fingers; a print will appear under the varnish as a matte map. Press a mask down with a blunt tool from the center toward the edges, and complete the covering around the cockpit with ordinary tape or masking putty. Before the paint itself it pays to spray a thin layer of the cockpit shade, so that any bleed is not visible.
Naši poradci a znalci sortimentu jsou připraveni odpovídat na Vaše dotazy (Po–Pá, 8–18 hod).
Zeptejte se na co potřebujete, odpovíme co nejdříve.
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