1/48 Kinetic CF-116D
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Gallery Article by Shawn
"phantom" Weiler
on July 1 2014
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Canada Day
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This
is the Kinetic CF-116D (F-5B) Freedom Fighter. This kit is far and away superior
to the earlier Classic Airframes kit. It builds much closer to a
"Hasegawa" style kit then say a garage company all resin kit.
Advantages are plastic to which glue will actually bond and kit parts that look
much closer then the competition.
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The
colour scheme for this kit is the standard training scheme used for much of the
CF-116Ds career. In this case with 433 squadron out of CFB Bagotteville Quebec.
Later in its career 116813 received ghost style aggressor markings in the
service of 419 squadron in Cold Lake Alberta.
While
I built a couple more Classic airframes Freedom Fighters since this was done I
do not intend to buy any more of the lesser kit. Kinetic rules the sky when it
comes to build-ability for this kit. In the background of one photo you see
116820 which was later rebuilt into an aggressor after a lot of repair.
"phantom"
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