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A pair of colourful Vipers - Pic’ heavy.


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As some predicted, my summer has been well and truly taken up with these little beauties. Lockdown has been kind to me, affording me both time to be a stay home dad to our 2 year old, and giving me plenty of bench time. 
 

I present to you all, a pair of Tamiya F-16Cs. One dressed up in the newest incarnation of the arctic splinter scheme from Eielson Air Force Base, Alaska. The second is the truly spectacular ‘Zeus’, from the Hellenic Air Force F-16 demonstration team.

 

Both have been built gear up and will be posed in dynamic turning positions once I’ve made stands on which to mount them.  Both have been built OOB with the exception of a couple of resin load out parts for the Aggressor jet. I’ve forgone a little accuracy with the Block versions to keep the build cost down. 
 

Arctic Aggressor.

AMS Resin ACMI pod.

Eduard Brassin AN/ALQ-188.

DN Masks for the splinter scheme.

TwoBobs sheet 32-068 decals. 
Vallejo model air Aggressor paint set. 
 

‘Zeus’

CFTs and extended Para’ pack tail from an Academy ‘Suva’ kit, kindly received by donation.

’Smokewinders’ were created by removing the detail from a pair of kit missiles and reshaping the nose and fins.

Paint masks from Model Maker Decals, meant for the Academy kit, but with lots of patience and extra masking tape, work with the Tamika kit. Just be very careful when studying the placement of masks before committing to paint. 
The top surface came from using Mr Hobby Aqueous paints. The blue shades all coming from guestimated mix ratios. 
Undersurface paint from Hataka Lacquer HAF paint set. 
 

Onwards to a few piccies then. :D I hope you enjoy looking at them as much as I enjoyed building these two. 

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Thanks guys, it means a lot. 
I too, am particularly proud of how the Zeus jet turned out. I think to do with how much hassle it was to get the flag and the feathered wings painted on. It was a breeze after that. 

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40 minutes ago, Pete Fleischmann said:

Good show Pete! What’s next?

 

cheers

P

Thanks Pete.


I’ve got a shelf of doom build that’s been brewing for some time. 
Academys F-18C dressed up as a ‘Flanker’ blue Aggressor from VFC-12 using The Fightertown sheet. 

It’s been sat in a state of part built for about 6 years :oops:

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14 minutes ago, The Madhatter said:

“I'm having a really hard time deciding which one I like best.”


Haha, thank you.

This is exactly the reason my wife allowed me to buy and build both. We couldn’t decide between the two before I started. We still can’t decide now. I’m leaning to the Aggressor because it looks kinda mean n moody. While the wife loves the Greek jet because “it’s so colourful and pretty” to use her words.

Either way, I’m sad that they’re both finished now because they were so much fun to paint and do the scheme ‘reveal’ when the masking came off. 

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