F-16 CJ - Tamiya 1/72

[The Migrant]

That is beautiful work on the wheel bays, Francesco.

[Guest]

Blimey, I had to keep telling myself that this is 1:72! Good work!

[flyjoe180]

Great wheel wells!

[Guest]

Lovely work Francesco, looking good.

[colin m]

I like the detail going into this.

[yak face]

Fantastic scratchbuilding Francesco , i love this sort of build , cheers tony

[Guest]

Wow!! Magnificent!!

Oh my god!! I can not imagine you handle a 1/24 aircraft, it will be amazing!!!!!

[Guest]

WOW, lot of comments here. Thank you very much mates.

Short update: I closed the fuselage and attached the wings, still trying to fix the seam on the upper surface joint (if you mount this kit I'd suggest you to add a spacer inside the top half fuselage to help keeping it in shape).

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Intake is not yet glued, waiting for painting if tri-tone camo. Current plan is to reproduce the machine in Spangdheim Germany, which is specified as a tri-tone in the instructions but seems two tones only from the pics I've found.

Francesco

[Guest]

Ok, she's painted now. However something doesn't convince me on the colors, I will check tomorrow in daylight.

In the meanwhile I tried to reproduce at best the exhaust. Hope you like it.

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Francesco

[Guest]

Lovely work so far, the detail in the wheel bays look very nice indeed.

scott

[Guest]

Thanks Scott.

Ok, checked and paint is complete.

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Thinking if I should dare to darken the canopy, that would be the first time for me ...

Francesco

[papa 695]

Looking very good Francesco

[Guest]

Francesco, this is excellent modelling if I could achieve this standard in 1/48 I would be a happy camper.

[Guest]

Thanks Ian and Steve,

What about the seat (under construction)

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Francesco

[papa 695]

Great start on the seat Francesco. Looks good enough to sit on