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The kit is the ancient Testors (ex-Hawk?) 1/48 F5-A. It's not much of a build but I've always loved the look of this series and all the variants. One of the pilots I met at the Rockdale airport told me he had trained in the T-38 and said how much he had enjoyed it...he said, "hey, they're still using it today so something must be right!"

This model was built about 18-22 years ago (back when I was working a kit almost everyday). I built it concurrently with a ESCI (ex-OEZ?) MiG-21. Sure enough, the MiG-21 went to Rockdale too. Pics of that visit are forthcoming. A bit of a preview of sorts:



Again, thanks for letting me bore you all! Here's she is, with the old hangar at Coffield Regional Airport filling in as a rural airstrip in the Philippines :



Check out that "area-ruled" fuselage!





















And, more images can be seen here:
http://s7.photobucket.com/user/Texgunne ... %20Fighter

Thanks. Gary

Nice! I don't think I've ever seen the country name abbreviated like that! something new every day.

F5's are neat little planes!

Nice pair of early hot rods there! You are correct on their origins. The F-5 is a re box of the Hawk kit and the Mig came from OEZ originally.

Stikpusher wrote:Nice pair of early hot rods there! You are correct on their origins. The F-5 is a re box of the Hawk kit and the Mig came from OEZ originally.

Thanks Stik! And thank you Lyle! I remember when I built them, thinking how similar their circumstances were; both were low-cost fighters sold to 3rd world client states. I thought of it as a "theme" I guess. Sort of like other "schemes" I've envisioned ie. Century Series Fighters, World War Two Twin-engined bombers, bi-plane fighters of the 30s, etc. And, damned if I don't have plenty of each "idea" in my stash. All I need is motivation and time!

Very sharp F-5.

lawdog114 wrote:Very sharp F-5.

Thank you Joe! Much obliged.