F-16C 'Lizard camo'

 

 

 

 

I found this one on the internet, and adjusted it a little bit to wat I could see on the pictures I had found. Not each aircraft is the same, but Twobobs and Caracal decals for some of the tailcodes of the F-16C CAS are not right according to references. 

Well, the aires resin exhaust ring was shrunk or something, I took 1.5 mm of the Hase ring (when comparing to Hase lenght, the Aires total lenght is about this smaller, that way i had a smaller step when fitting it to the airframe, anyway a lot of putty and sanding was needed, still busy with it. Stupidly enough I’ve already glued the gears in the bays, next time I leave it till the end of the build. Mr Surfacer 1200 used for priming. 

First part of painted exhaust, I’ve used Xtreme metal from AK, great paint! Airbrush is doing well also, not as difficult as I thought it would be. Have to do the petals a bit and also the ring is a bit too bright. 

Started painting with mr Color, nr C302 and C303, with some 10-15 % white and Mr Leveling thinner. Nice paint to work with, although it has a strong smell.. 

FS36081 added, after this I realized that the tip of the nose should be mounted before painting the nose 🙁 , with self made pitottube from 2 sizes of hypodermic needles. 

AGM-65, inert,without the steering fins, couldn’t find decal stripes, so hope that this will work. I made thinner fins from plastic card, because out of the old hasegawa weapon set, they are very thick. 

90 percent ready, have to do Some burned colour onto the parts between blue-ish ring and petals. (Does someone know how to rotate pictures on this site?) 

Tried to detail a bit the old style TER also from the Hasegawa weaponset with copper wire and some adjustment on the topside of the front, in real there is a ‘den’, but was flat in this weaponset.
Also tried some sanding at the fins of the Mk82 high drag inert bombs (will use two of them)
 

Started with the TwoBob decals, there are quite some stencils missing, and some of them are drawn at the wrong place, I’ve added Hasegawa stencils from spare decals.
Almost ready for the next Gloss coat for weathering. 

The TwoBob decals work really nice with Microscale Set and Sol ( Areas that are matt is due to a little adjusting the dark green Paint) 

I decided to add self cut front fins to the AIM-9J sidewinder, base layer done, going to have white head (with cover) and small white frontside of the rear fins, according to references. 

 

Here you can see the sidewinder as used back in those days. 

The pave penny pod on a small IDF-like version of the pylon, pretty high mounted on the right side of the intake. 

A bit of a busy picture, but I saw in the previous picture a shiny ring around the front part of the GPU-5 cannon pod, so tried to replicate it (in the back of the picture, sorry for the bad quality) 

Haven't done a lot the last couple of weeks due to other time consuming things (like work/familiy/etc).
I thought it would be nice to get my F-16 a place where it could be parked / maintained between flights. First time for me trying to replicate a piece of concrete airfield. Nosewheel will be placed on yellow line at about one third from the left. 

Some other items, Eduard ladder, Verlinden seat, intake cover (for inside the intake, I've tried to make a cover, but that's not so easy due to complex shape of intake.) 

Something like this, next time further with the Viper it self, like matt varnish, canopy, HUD frame, exhaust and some RBF tags. 

 

A quick photo with an awful background, a bit updated with RBF tags, seat in place, exhaust mounted etc. 

Took some pictures outside.( I needed for now a piece of tape for keeping the canopy up)
I think it’s ready now. My first kit after quite a few years, learned a lot making this one, how things should and should not be done. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Airbrake is sitting too low....