The finished model: In the manga: The Area 88 manga is home to a wide variety of aircraft.  Besides the well-known “signature” planes, our heroes are often forced into flying temporary loaners.  One of these is the F-5A Freedom Fighter…

The finished model: In the manga: Shin’s F-5E Tiger II really shouldn’t need much of an introduction.  It appears in the manga a few chapters in, after Shin’s F-8E Crusader gets shot down, and becomes the first of several planes to…