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Off The Wall: Botswana CF-5

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  • Member since
    April 2015
  • From: New Hampshire, USA
Posted by UKguyInUSA on Saturday, May 30, 2015 8:18 AM

Great job, mate! :)

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    November 2009
  • From: SW Virginia
Posted by Gamera on Friday, May 29, 2015 2:24 PM

That's pretty awesome!

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    February 2003
Posted by Jim Barton on Friday, May 29, 2015 1:06 PM

Cool!Yes

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    June 2004
  • From: 29° 58' N 95° 21' W
Posted by seasick on Sunday, May 24, 2015 12:22 PM
I was researching the F-5A because yhe kit came in USAF markings and CAF markings. I wanted to put it in markings of another country that I didn't have an airplane in. Botswana was on the list and I found photos on acig.org. It was an interesting build. The LAU-10 was from my spares stash.

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Posted by Theuns on Sunday, May 24, 2015 12:15 PM

Cool. now you can start a whole series of Bots AF planes :-)

Theuns

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    June 2004
  • From: 29° 58' N 95° 21' W
Posted by seasick on Sunday, May 24, 2015 11:55 AM
It is the old Matchbox 1/72 scale F-5A. I made the decals on my desktop computer with the GIMP program from GNU, and printed them out on testors clear, and white decal paper. Printed them on my cannon inkjet paper.

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Posted by Theuns on Sunday, May 24, 2015 11:28 AM

Very nice, what kit and decals?

Theuns

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    June 2004
  • From: 29° 58' N 95° 21' W
Off The Wall: Botswana CF-5
Posted by seasick on Saturday, May 23, 2015 9:49 PM

In southern Africa a small country with nice people lives in a rough neighborhood. A single squadron of CF-5 are maintained for routine air space defense duties, and light ground attack.

The aircraft's serial number OJ 7 is a strange coincidence. Not a reference to OJ Simpson.

Chasing the ultimate build.

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