Classic Plastic Build -Lockheed F-104A Starfighter

This is being built for a model magazine which wants a kit-build discussion of creating a "classic" kit from the dark ages of modeling. I'm basing it on a "gate guardian" I saw in 1977 at McIntire ANG base in South Carolina - it seemed to have been painted in white house paint, and it had no engine so - from the tail looking forward - it seemed hollow.