F16C Block 25/32 Falcon- 1/48 Tamiya

[Guest]

Hi Colin, if you do a search on www.airliners.net website you will find quite a few 'Blue' F-16's. What you may be talking about is the Blue colour scheme called 'Flanker' which is common to both the F-15 and F-16's, see below. Hope this helps. Cheers Derek

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[Guest]

Thanks for your comments lads. here are a few shots of what I have been up to this week. Made up the exhaust pipe and hand painted it with Tamiya acrylic, and did a trial fit as you can see. Deviated from the kit colour scheme to one with the metallic blue banding which I have seen on American Aircraft. Closing up the cockpit so added the ejector seat decals. Mounted all the Fuel Tanks, Missiles and Missile Rails onto scrap sprues for airbrushing, masked off the Cockpit Canopy and fixed it in position with Klear. I have the 'FS' colours for the three greys on the aircraft but am going to try them on some scrap to see what colour they are when dry - been caught-out too many times in the past. Some minor filling to do in way of the Taileron cantilever supports. Cheers Derek

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[colin m]

Hi Colin, if you do a search on www.airliners.net website you will find quite a few 'Blue' F-16's. What you may be talking about is the Blue colour scheme called 'Flanker' which is common to both the F-15 and F-16's, see below. Hope this helps. Cheers Derek

Thanks Derek, that's the one. My wife actually spotted it at cosford and likes it ! Which is a bit like an order to build it !

Regards

Colin M.........

[Ian M]

Looking good Derek. Wont be long before the paint starts flying.

Colin. I think that the sceme you refer to is also called Agressor. The flight training schools have Agressors and Defender; the good guys and the bad guys.

Ian M

[colin m]

Ian, thank you,

It looks like you're right, now to find a kit of an Agressor.

Colin M........

[Ian M]

My Bad its Aggresor and Adversary. Might find this usefull 1/48 F-16C/NgAGGRESSOR/ADVERSARYh

In which case you would be wanting the Adversary version. Good thing the to options are in the sae kit!!!

Ian M

[Guest]

Thanks Derek, that's the one. My wife actually spotted it at cosford and likes it ! Which is a bit like an order to build it !Regards

Colin M.........

Colin, you mean to tell me you have a wife that orders you to make models!!!! put her in the swap shop immediately please. Cheers Derek

[Guest]

Made a start on the airbrushing, looking at the instructions, Tamiya want you to buy their aerosol cans for the body, I have chosen to use the FS numbers for the F-16. The instructions call out for 28 pot colours and 8 aerosol's - an expensive kit for those starting out and with no stock.

First I airbrushed the mid-grey colour, for this I used FS 36270 - Lifecolour - medium sea grey. I coated this with Micro Gloss before masking off, there is a nasty area above the intake where I chose to use Maskol. I then sprayed the lighter grey using FS 36375 - Lifecolor - light compass ghost grey, I then painted the darker grey using FS 36118 - Gunze Acrylic H305. Will now coat all these areas with Micro Gloss and mask off the undercarriage wells for painting white. Cheers Derek

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Masked off the wheel bay's with tape and foil, and sprayed with Xtracrylic White XA1141. Off to start the decals and apply some light weathering: well actually all I am going to do is enhance the panel lines/rivets as the F-16's are usually pretty clean. Cheers Derek

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[Guest]

looking really good, I cant wait to see this finished as I am building the same kit now.

jim

[Guest]

Derek like what you did with the afterburner,builds coming along nicely

[Guest]

Derek like what you did with the afterburner,builds coming along nicely

Thanks Trey, you can find the finished F-16 in the link below. Cheers Derek

http://www.scale-models.co.uk/aircraft-pictures/11045-f-16c-block-25-32-falcon-1-48-tamiya-finished.html