Greetings from England I bought this kit many year's ago manufactured by revell I recall it was a pain to build and the fit was not the best to build. So good luck with the challenge you have accepted to complete. Regards Sean
Happy new years!! I just got this kit last week!!! I love any of the century series cold war jets! Thanks for the video brother! Raise our coffee mugs to a healthy happy uneventful 2025!!
A much needed tutorial on this troublesome kit, Sean. I've seen modellers give up or shelve it for getting too far ahead before finding the problems to correct. I will wait for a new tool kit if it ever happens. Picked my fights with several challenging kits the last two years partly to win the fight as it always gives a higher sense of pride/achievement. Watching this video while I tape up a 1/32 Trumpeter Su-27UB. Better than expected. To the right of me a 1/24 Trumpeter Zero project. So far, the fight is almost over. Very proud of myself.
First off..May I wish you and all a very Happy 2025..I’ve got three of these Italeri 1/32 F-104’s,so be looking forward to your build of it.Thanks again and all the best from Blighty🇬🇧🇺🇸👍
Built this a couple of years ago and to be honest it came up looking really nice, with some photo etch . I wouldn't call myself a expert kit builder and even l made a great job of it.
„not the best kit“ - well, that garanties almost a perfect video series! The more difficult, the better - for us, the viewer. at least. And happy new year Sean!
@ Well, it makes it just entertaining and informative if the kit is challenging. Everyone can build a Tamiya F14 (not talking about all the different surfaces and different kinds of distress.). E.g. your Space Shuttle and Testor SR-71 were great builds bespite being terrible kits.
My mother, a RCAF Flight Nurse, worked at the National Defense Medical Center in Ottawa in the early part of the sixties. This was a cutting edge hospital and it got the worst cases. My mother recalled having to care for really horrifically burnt and smashed young pilots who ended up flying in a 'widow maker'. She felt it was so sad as they were all so full of life and potential otherwise. She passed Halloween 2023. The interment will happen this coming spring. I married into a RCAF family. My father-in-law, still here, did 34 years in the RCAF and almost all of it as a tech (weapons, radar, electronics, you name it - also a Shriner and rode as a cowboy at the King Ranch and once drove in the Indianapolis 500) - a hard worker (not an officer *lol*). My wife's elder brother went to RMC (management engineering) and worked helping keep our fleets of planes in good shape. He helped refit the Australian F-18s we bought. Because he was so good, he got called by the Deputy Minister of Defense personally to be the technical lead on the P-8A Poseidon (surveillance plane) for the RCAF (in progress). His wife is in military procurements and is one of the few people that can sign off contracts with other countries. With mom, my father-in-law, my brother-in-law, me (militia reserves), my wife's uncle did 20 in the Army and my dad's father (16th British Highland Light Infantry - fought across the low countries, the pursuit to the Rhine, and the Occupation, losing most of the boys that he enlisted with)... all together, I counted 80 years of service in the forces and maybe 30 of time in DND itself as civilian employees. I'm proud of the service my family - on both sides - has put in and still are.
Almost got this kit to foil but it’s really expensive. Boy am I glad I didn’t. Panel lines and detail would all have to be sanded down and totally reworked. You doing your usual great job on putting this thing together.
Good work. It's a nice kit with a little work. I took first at the IPMS Nationals in 1:32 jets in 2015 with the same boxing. Be VERY careful with the canopy as it is incredibly thin and easy to snap (I had to buy a replacement). It builds up nicely.
Happy New Year!! Good luck on the Italeri F-104 going forward. Already looks to be a challenge. I tried one Italeri kit of a 1/35 scale 2.5 ton truck many years ago, and it was so bad I gave up on it. It's the only kit I ever threw in the towel on. I have been leery of Italeri kits ever since and have yet to try another one from that name.
i have build the G version of the italeri in 1/32 ,prepare for this kind of work,doesnt need tons of filler but you will need some ,be careful also with the intakes triple check everything because is out of aliment and will give you a step ,i had to trim and modify mine to get them 90% where it needs to be
I think you have your work cut out there, mate! I have no doubt that you will overcome..... after many happy hours of sanding 😖 Have a safe, happy and prosperous New Year and keep your head below the parapet; it's gonna be a bumpy one!
Happy new year to you Sean, looks like a challenging kit, good job you have more sprue goo made up. Look forward to the next one. I am in the middle of the Trump 1/32 Av8 B Harrier, same challenge with the front nose gear has to be installed early in the build, plenty of masking required and trying not to break the thing! Nice mug by the way, cheers
I'm kind of an Italeri fan because I like a kit that's a bit of a challenge. This kit was originally tooled in 2013 so it's pretty modern and I rather like the Starfighter myself. Looks like a rewarding build. To answer your question yes Hasegawa did a 1:32 Starfighter but it's long in the tooth. I think even Revell did one.
This is a big boy! Haha. I’ve got 2 1/32 I’m working on, a F4u Corsair and in February I’m joining a “Heavies Group Build” with a 1/32 Hobbyboss B24… it’s a monster 😅
Funny thing. I recently bought the Italeri 1/48 A-10 and it was exactly the same. Tons of auto-body work to be done as well as molding seams on all the single molded parts. IT HAS BECOME A QUEST TO FINISH IT. Cant let the model win!!
@@walterroosa7999 those are often the most rewarding. I did a Privateer conversion on a b-24 and I spent probably a month just on body work…wasn’t the best model I’ve built but sure was the most rewarding.
Hi and Happy New Year to you and your family. I can't say I have been impressed by any Italeri kit I have made in the past, so I've not made many. The precision and detail level is not the same standard as the top kit manufacturers. Also this looks like it was first released in the early 2000's which puts it in the modern era of kits, so also not good. This said a modeler of your standard will be able to pull it out the bag. I think if you continue to show us what you do to raise the standard of the model, it will make for very useful videos.
I'm currently scratchbuilding a crashlanded B-17 in 1/56 scale for a WW2 wargame, but now I see how much effort it takes to build everything from scratch I will never complain about bad fitting kits again ;-)
@@seanerk5kt9 yes, but lucky for me it lost 3 engines, it's right wing and part of it's left wing, and the entire tail section before coming to a stop ;-)
Oh I just had the Kitty Hawk P39q arrive and it looks fantastic.... A bit of flash but lots of very good details and a couple of slip ups in the instructions
@@nigelsmith7366 I’ve built a couple of Kittyhawks and they are really nice looking in the box, however, putting them together can be very frustrating.
@@nielsvc7525 I didn’t want to spend money on a pilot which normally isn’t a deal breaker but I also didn’t want to fight with closing the gear bays…since I’ll probably have a fight on my hands closing up the other doors.
@seanerk5kt9 ah ok fair enough! Wel, i ca n still watch the old video's on how you closed them up and how to post the model on a rod. That's how I can across your channel. I hate seeing the gear down, and I love the pure form of an aircraft in flight. But I get it. It's a lot of work, and if you're running a YT channel. So I get why you take the easier route. Still love watching your channel, like I said before.
you must have the best wife in the universe. Hours upon hours at the model bench, and she's ok with gaming too? Where do I find one of those mythical creatures?
Sweet! I love the F-104. Indeed, Hasegawa does have a 1/32 scale kit of the Starfighter. I have an old one in my stash. I suspected the Italeri kit was a rebox, but comparing the parts, they are different.
Greetings from England I bought this kit many year's ago manufactured by revell I recall it was a pain to build and the fit was not the best to build. So good luck with the challenge you have accepted to complete.
Regards Sean
Happy new years!! I just got this kit last week!!! I love any of the century series cold war jets! Thanks for the video brother! Raise our coffee mugs to a healthy happy uneventful 2025!!
@@gordon8753 Cold War jets are my fave!
all the best to you and yours,heres to some great builds.
A much needed tutorial on this troublesome kit, Sean. I've seen modellers give up or shelve it for getting too far ahead before finding the problems to correct.
I will wait for a new tool kit if it ever happens. Picked my fights with several challenging kits the last two years partly to win the fight as it always gives a higher sense of pride/achievement. Watching this video while I tape up a 1/32 Trumpeter Su-27UB. Better than expected. To the right of me a 1/24 Trumpeter Zero project.
So far, the fight is almost over. Very proud of myself.
great start , good luck with the rest of the build
First off..May I wish you and all a very Happy 2025..I’ve got three of these Italeri 1/32 F-104’s,so be looking forward to your build of it.Thanks again and all the best from Blighty🇬🇧🇺🇸👍
Built this a couple of years ago and to be honest it came up looking really nice, with some photo etch . I wouldn't call myself a expert kit builder and even l made a great job of it.
„not the best kit“ - well, that garanties almost a perfect video series! The more difficult, the better - for us, the viewer. at least. And happy new year Sean!
@@ironspike171 lol. I don’t think this ones going to be that bad but I will have to channel some of my inner modeling skills
@ Well, it makes it just entertaining and informative if the kit is challenging. Everyone can build a Tamiya F14 (not talking about all the different surfaces and different kinds of distress.). E.g. your Space Shuttle and Testor SR-71 were great builds bespite being terrible kits.
My mother, a RCAF Flight Nurse, worked at the National Defense Medical Center in Ottawa in the early part of the sixties. This was a cutting edge hospital and it got the worst cases. My mother recalled having to care for really horrifically burnt and smashed young pilots who ended up flying in a 'widow maker'. She felt it was so sad as they were all so full of life and potential otherwise. She passed Halloween 2023. The interment will happen this coming spring.
I married into a RCAF family. My father-in-law, still here, did 34 years in the RCAF and almost all of it as a tech (weapons, radar, electronics, you name it - also a Shriner and rode as a cowboy at the King Ranch and once drove in the Indianapolis 500) - a hard worker (not an officer *lol*). My wife's elder brother went to RMC (management engineering) and worked helping keep our fleets of planes in good shape. He helped refit the Australian F-18s we bought. Because he was so good, he got called by the Deputy Minister of Defense personally to be the technical lead on the P-8A Poseidon (surveillance plane) for the RCAF (in progress). His wife is in military procurements and is one of the few people that can sign off contracts with other countries.
With mom, my father-in-law, my brother-in-law, me (militia reserves), my wife's uncle did 20 in the Army and my dad's father (16th British Highland Light Infantry - fought across the low countries, the pursuit to the Rhine, and the Occupation, losing most of the boys that he enlisted with)... all together, I counted 80 years of service in the forces and maybe 30 of time in DND itself as civilian employees.
I'm proud of the service my family - on both sides - has put in and still are.
Almost got this kit to foil but it’s really expensive. Boy am I glad I didn’t. Panel lines and detail would all have to be sanded down and totally reworked.
You doing your usual great job on putting this thing together.
Good work. It's a nice kit with a little work. I took first at the IPMS Nationals in 1:32 jets in 2015 with the same boxing. Be VERY careful with the canopy as it is incredibly thin and easy to snap (I had to buy a replacement). It builds up nicely.
Happy New Year Sean, enjoying yet another of your fantastic and informative builds :)
When it comes to convincing poor fitting parts to comply, you are the master!!
@@markc7002 lol. No, I just slap it together then spend an inordinate amount of time fixing the mess I made 😅
Happy New Year mate….looking forward to this one!
Happy New Year! Keep the awesome work, and I really like your vids.
Nice subject. Looking forward to this build.
Happy New Year Sir glad you are doing more content I learn a lot from your videos
Happy New Year!! Good luck on the Italeri F-104 going forward. Already looks to be a challenge. I tried one Italeri kit of a 1/35 scale 2.5 ton truck many years ago, and it was so bad I gave up on it. It's the only kit I ever threw in the towel on. I have been leery of Italeri kits ever since and have yet to try another one from that name.
Preeety cool build to start the year😎👍, looking forward to see it
Happy new Year. Enjoy your models !!!
Two sips in one video. Now my life is complete😆
Happy new year Sean. All the best to you and your family 🎉
Looking forward to this one👍, i was aiming this kit for long time, it will look great like a decor for living room or something.
@@Kf1rr or a man cave
i have build the G version of the italeri in 1/32 ,prepare for this kind of work,doesnt need tons of filler but you will need some ,be careful also with the intakes triple check everything because is out of aliment and will give you a step ,i had to trim and modify mine to get them 90% where it needs to be
@@rOEN911 thanks for the tips.
Happy New Year 👍 looking forward to it
I think you have your work cut out there, mate! I have no doubt that you will overcome..... after many happy hours of sanding 😖
Have a safe, happy and prosperous New Year and keep your head below the parapet; it's gonna be a bumpy one!
Happy new year, looking fwd this one 😊👍
The missile with a man in it; can't wait to see what you do with this kit.
Happy new year to you Sean, looks like a challenging kit, good job you have more sprue goo made up. Look forward to the next one. I am in the middle of the Trump 1/32 Av8 B Harrier, same challenge with the front nose gear has to be installed early in the build, plenty of masking required and trying not to break the thing! Nice mug by the way, cheers
I'm kind of an Italeri fan because I like a kit that's a bit of a challenge. This kit was originally tooled in 2013 so it's pretty modern and I rather like the Starfighter myself. Looks like a rewarding build.
To answer your question yes Hasegawa did a 1:32 Starfighter but it's long in the tooth. I think even Revell did one.
Happy sippin and a happy new year sean 2 urself and the family
This would be a cool kit to have wheels up in flight and on one of your bases.
@@mode1charlie170 I thought about it
This is a big boy! Haha. I’ve got 2 1/32 I’m working on, a F4u Corsair and in February I’m joining a “Heavies Group Build” with a 1/32 Hobbyboss B24… it’s a monster 😅
@@Leescreativeart that’ll be a big’n
HAPPY NEW YEAR 🇫🇷
Can’t wait to see how you do the metal finish.
Happy new year....
I have the 32nd F16I Sufa from Academy on my bench
Funny thing. I recently bought the Italeri 1/48 A-10 and it was exactly the same. Tons of auto-body work to be done as well as molding seams on all the single molded parts. IT HAS BECOME A QUEST TO FINISH IT. Cant let the model win!!
@@walterroosa7999 those are often the most rewarding. I did a Privateer conversion on a b-24 and I spent probably a month just on body work…wasn’t the best model I’ve built but sure was the most rewarding.
Hi and Happy New Year to you and your family. I can't say I have been impressed by any Italeri kit I have made in the past, so I've not made many. The precision and detail level is not the same standard as the top kit manufacturers. Also this looks like it was first released in the early 2000's which puts it in the modern era of kits, so also not good. This said a modeler of your standard will be able to pull it out the bag. I think if you continue to show us what you do to raise the standard of the model, it will make for very useful videos.
I'm currently scratchbuilding a crashlanded B-17 in 1/56 scale for a WW2 wargame, but now I see how much effort it takes to build everything from scratch I will never complain about bad fitting kits again ;-)
@@rdc2724 that’s quite a task!
@@seanerk5kt9 yes, but lucky for me it lost 3 engines, it's right wing and part of it's left wing, and the entire tail section before coming to a stop ;-)
like the work also like the Darth Vader and the Boba Fett pictures
@@stevenjones2371 thanks! I painted those
@ awesome
Here in Australia, we refer to Italeri as Italscary, some kits are great, and some will test your skills and patience, Happy 2025.
Amazing kit
Man your so smart...hair dryer to fix warped parts. I trashed my Tamiya F-4 because one fuselage half was warped and could not get it to align at all
Oh I just had the Kitty Hawk P39q arrive and it looks fantastic.... A bit of flash but lots of very good details and a couple of slip ups in the instructions
@@nigelsmith7366 I’ve built a couple of Kittyhawks and they are really nice looking in the box, however, putting them together can be very frustrating.
Happy new year.
Hello. Happy new year!!!
Its huge!!!
Id like to know what decals gets inside.
Can you show us, please?
Happy New Year to all
Hasegawa has one at 1/48. I just ordered one.
Is there aftermarket metal landing gear for that kit? I would get it if available for that size model. Thats alot of styrene
I’ve got a 1:48 F-14 kit. Can I send it to you to build with a VF-84 livery?
@@slugmaster64 I don’t do commission work anymore
Sip was too short!
You've slept since then trying to remember past build?🤣
Jman
One more thing, whats up with the gear down fase?
@@nielsvc7525 I didn’t want to spend money on a pilot which normally isn’t a deal breaker but I also didn’t want to fight with closing the gear bays…since I’ll probably have a fight on my hands closing up the other doors.
@seanerk5kt9 ah ok fair enough! Wel, i ca n still watch the old video's on how you closed them up and how to post the model on a rod. That's how I can across your channel. I hate seeing the gear down, and I love the pure form of an aircraft in flight. But I get it. It's a lot of work, and if you're running a YT channel. So I get why you take the easier route. Still love watching your channel, like I said before.
you must have the best wife in the universe. Hours upon hours at the model bench, and she's ok with gaming too? Where do I find one of those mythical creatures?
How about a 1/72 B-52D for 2025? 🤔
Jman
I think Italeri is Italian for BAD MOLDING?
@@NigelsModellingBench lol
building the trumpeter 1/32 mig15is as I watch... feel your pain... sanding sanding sanding...
Fiiiirst! Happy new year!
Maybe i can buy one, so i need to know if It has NASA decals.
Thanks!!!
@@vaicente_8831 this one does not
Hate from Nebraska!
Sweet! I love the F-104. Indeed, Hasegawa does have a 1/32 scale kit of the Starfighter. I have an old one in my stash. I suspected the Italeri kit was a rebox, but comparing the parts, they are different.
@@ski4jeepin I’m pretty sure this is an original Italeri boxing that came out in 2014…at least that’s what I’ve been told