I’m looking for a 1:72 scale Lockheed F-94C Starfire kit. Does anybody know what kits have been produced? I know there’s an old Revell but I can’t identify the scale. Any ideas?
Michael
Emhar does a kit I believe it may be OOP. I’ve never built it so I can’t comment on it. Here’s one on ebay.
Michael,
I seem to remember a Revell box scale ( which was usually somewhere around 1/80 to 1/94) kits many years ago and they appear on EvilBay from time to time. Emhar (as mentioned above) has/had one. If you are interested in 1:48, I believe that Collect Aire has one
http://www.collectaire.com/modelpages/f94c/f94c.html
but it is rather expensive ($129). Lindberg is another possible source.
Brian [C):-)]
Aurora made one. I just was on a site where they had the emhar’s kit was listed at $75.00.
Also check lindberg.
Mjh, I have two sitting right here in front of me as I post. One is a Revell F-94C in 1 / 53 scale. It is so horribly warped in the fuselage that it may not even be salvagable. Kit # 4353. It must have been one of the first kits as it even has the raised scribing on the fuselage sides for the decals and the name Starfire on the left and right front fuselage sides. The other is an Emhar kit # EM 3004 in 1 / 72 scale F-94C ( Late ) version. Nice kit and nice decals. Try to find the Emhar kit if possible. Heller also made a kit of the F-94B. There is a very good 4 page work review with photos on both F-94C,s called " A Pair of F-94,s " in the Scale Aviation Modeller International, November 2000 issue which I saved for that purpose. Happy hunting.
Emhar makes both early and late C models. I built the late C for a contest recently, and I strongly advise that you invest in True Details cockpit set, as the kit’s is somewhat…spartan( I used the TD set, and it really makes the kit shine). You may also want to get Squadron/Signals P-80/T-33/F-94 in Action, as you will need it. The landing gear & gear wells are featureless(and too shallow), so are the airbrake & dive brake wells, and the landing light is missing. I used some spare P-51 parts (landing gear and wheels, pitot tube [the kit one was too thick], retraction struts, and other odds 'n ends.) The canopy appears a little on the thick side (you may want to purchase a new one or vaccum form it), and the decals for the version that I built kind of started to desintigrate (I don’t like long fuselage stripes now), and the USAF and National Insignias will require trimming to fit over the wing rocket pods. I didn’t trim mine, and I kind of regret it (I’m only 15, so I can get away with that at a contest.lol!) The wing rocket pods also don’t have any locating devices, but the instructions say they are 45mm. away from the fuselage, and that turned out alright. The air in takes didn’t fit right, so now I have these huge gaps that I didn’t notice until after I was finished painting. It was still good enough to win me 1st place in the division that I entered.(Not only were clean aircraft like the F-94C favored by SAC, but the judges seem to favor them as well!) It was a very challenging kit to build, and I am satisfied with it, even though I did not paint the rocket pods. I just wish that Revell would go and give us a new mold kit, because I want to build another!
Just to let you know, it does not cost no 75 bucks, as anyone who would by that has to be on something. You can order the early and late versions at Squadron for 12-15 bucks, although I got mine for free(complete with the TD set!).
I’d definitely get the Emhar kit. It’s pretty available at most on-line shops (Great Models, Squadron). Im currently in the process of building the F-94C (late), and it’s a nice build. I strongly agree that the True Details cockpit set helps. I got it, and it really perks up the look. Much nicer!!![:D]. The kit has fair surface detail. Definitely NOT Hasegawa or Tamiya quality, but not bad. Fit is fair to good. There is little to no wheel well detail. I guess you could always scratch-build some. There are no real land-marks on the kit for the rocket pods, but the instructions diagram how to measure from the fuselage mid-line, out to mid-wing to place the pods ([%-)]. Nice decals w/ 2 options. Hope this helps.
Frank
Thanks to all who responded. I’ll definitely look out for the Emhar. I had my suspicions about the Revell and the earlier Lindberg and Aurora.
Cheers
Their is a Workbench Review that was done on the Emhar F-94C ( Late ) with a color photo of the finished model. I cut it out and saved it with the kit for when I build it. It just so happens that the year and month of the writeup is not on the page. You might be able to find it in the FSM archives.
MJ. I was just going thru some of my old magazines and found a great 18 page story with a ton of color and B & W photos of the F-94. It is the April 1988 issue of " Wings " magazine. The article is called " Night Patrol " The story of the F-94 Starfire in Korea, The Air Force,s First Fully Operational All Weather, Jet Night Fighter. It is 99 % on the F-94B. Try and locate one if you can. Think you would really enjoy it.
Thanks for that, and to everyone who responded. I’ve ordered an Emhar Starfire.
Michael
What I did was convert an Hasegawa 1/72 scale T-33 into a F-94C back in the late 70’s (nothing was out there for the plane then) and it should be on display at the Wing Over the Rockies flight museum in Denver, I donated it to them when they where the Lowery AFB Museum before the base closed back in 1992, now Emhar had ran a limited run kit a few years back but I heard misxed reviews about it mostly it was complaining about the thick sprues and how the parts where warped but it caame out to be a nice representation of the forgotten fighter
What an undertakeing!!! I would never even dream of doing that! The 'C is much larger and longer, and to take a T-33, well that is just incredible!
Scott Willerton
The T-33, F-94 series and P-80 are all essentially the same airframe with differences in the radar, seating , nose,wing tip tanks and engine.
What I did was the samething “Kelley” Johnson did with the F-94 series, take the T-33 and modified them,
How I did it was cut the tail section from the plane on the seperation line where the real plane seperated to do engine changes, and graft in the afterburner, then the elevator stabilizers where shimmed to the “C’s” angles then added the dorsel spine from the back of the canopy to the vertical stabilizer, and then my attention was on the nose to make it the correct shape, then I modified the intakes, and last but not least I modified the main gear bays and added modified F-4 main gear struts, and updated doors to complete the mod’s, then I had to paint the scheme I wanted, and mix & match the decals for the unit, but the main help was Squadrons P-80 in action book, and Fighters Of the Fifties book (this I copied a clear 3D drawing that was in 1/72 scale was my main schematic to go by)
Dedgumit! You make it sound soooooooooo easy. By the way, has anyone attempted to do single-seat F-94D fighter-bomber or the one that they put the M61 Vulcan cannon in during its testing phase?
Scott Willerton
It was easy, the key there was to take my time, and I used ALOT of Miliput puddy and I think I should have bought stock in Evergreen Plastics too, like just about all conversions take your time and let everything dry before you go to the next step of modificatons, the F-94C took me about 4 to 6 months to complete (and I really wasn’t pushing it either) I also did the same conversion to the Testors/Hawk 1/48 scale T-33 in the same time frame so I put out 2 F-94C’s, as for the M61A1 Vulcan Cannon test bed I never really thought about it until a few years ago when I was nosing through the P-80 in Action book, I’m thinking I might use the 1/48 scale Hobbycraft F-94B kit (because it hase the augmenter section, wing tip tanks and this means less mod’s to do) and convert the kits nose, main landing gear & bays, intakes, and put the spine on the backbone to a F-94C, and the Vulcan Test Bed aircraft might be later after I see how the first conversion went