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Tamiya 1/32 F-16C CAS Viper - 50th Fighting Falcon Anniversary


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On 4/26/2024 at 7:17 AM, periklis_sale said:

Wow excellent

 

What colors did you use?

 

Gunze acrylics reference thinned with Gunze Leveling Thinner.

 

H301 Dark Grey + a couple of drops of blue

H302 Forest Green

H303 Medium Green

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Hello,

 

some progress here.

The external load is ready with a "drill" of an AGM-65 Maverick. It's a resin missile+rail came from Eduard Brassin. 

Body and rail are painted in Olive Drab.

 

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Under the other mid-wing pylon there is a TER, from Edaurd Brassin too, with 2 "inert" 500lb slick bombs.

Olive Drab for the main part of the bomb plus light blue for the front part.

 

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Now the engine exhaust : this is a mix of the Reskit P&W plus the tube from Aires resin set.

This because I already had the Aires engine resin set... but the exhaust is smaller in circumference when it joins the rear plastic piece of the kit.

 

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IMG-20240424-WA0003

 

All the metal colors are from Vallejo Metal acrylics reference.

 

CIAO!

Piero

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it's time to put together some pieces that have been prepared separately.

 

The Pave Penny laser tacker pod on the right side of the main jet intake...

 

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You can see also the FOD guard fitted to the main jet intake with the yellow falcon head.

 

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Under the belly the big GPU-5/A gun pod fitted with a modified pylon/adapter.

 

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The engine exahust fitted...

 

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The main undercarriage with cable sand hydraulic lines fitted...

 

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Note the red stencils around these panels...

 

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Again the big gun pod...

 

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The front undercarriage... also here cables and hydraulic lines has been add.

 

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Last for today, the ACES II ejection seat installed into the cockpit tube. This part is from the plastic kit... 

 

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CIAO!

Piero

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13 hours ago, geedubelyer said:

This would look great parked next to the F-15 Strike Eagle demo bird 71-291 that Daniel Leduc is building in the group builds. 

 

I love the Strike Eagle demo bird in Europe One camo with tons of CBU hanging all around it.

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Everything looks terrific Piero!  Lot of neat looking details everywhere.

 

Where did you source the "No Push" placards on the engine nozzle?  I'm having difficulty trying to find something similar.

 

Cheers,

Chuck

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1 hour ago, chuck540z3 said:

Everything looks terrific Piero!  Lot of neat looking details everywhere.

 

Where did you source the "No Push" placards on the engine nozzle?  I'm having difficulty trying to find something similar.

 

Cheers,

Chuck

 

Hi Chuck,

 

first of all thank you for the compliments!

Your F-16 "Aggressor" is an inspiration source for my F-16... you are doing a really great work on it!!!

The "No Push" placards on the P&W engine nozzle come from the Uprise Decal sheet with "Black Stencils" for F-16s.

 

CIAO!

Piero

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Lovely work, Piero.   I'm a huge fan of the F-16 and although its usual colour scheme is probably very effective, it is rather bland.   The lizard scheme gives the jet such a sinister look.   I love it!

 

Cheers,


Wayne 

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Hello,

 

I've completed the cockpit and put together all the parts: almost everything is out of the box, only the instrumentation is from the Quinta Studio 3D set.

 

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Master metal parts fro AOA sensors and pitot tube.

 

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I put here and there some red Remove Before Flight tags as showed when the F-16 is parked and... to add a splash of color.

 

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In the next step I will add the underwing pylons and canopy parts... and should be finished.

 

CIAO!

Piero

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