Tamiya F-16C Aggressor - Completed!
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5 28 February 2017, 03:58
Gary BrantleyCongratulations on a beautiful model Michael! The exhaust looks sweet brother. 🙂
28 February 2017, 04:02
Michael PhillipsThanks Gary! I appreciate the kind words. I am pretty happy with how this one turned out. 🙂
28 February 2017, 04:11
Erik LeijdensAwesome Michael! A reallt cool Viper. Hiw did you manage to get the blueish shine on the exhaust ring?
28 February 2017, 06:34
Eelco GregoireThat looks great Michael. Very interesting scheme. Was the masking very helpful?
28 February 2017, 07:11
Murad ÖZERSomething to be proud of for sure, lovely lovely build Michael, big huge kudos. 🙂
28 February 2017, 16:52
Michael PhillipsThanks Michael, Marko, Ulf, Erik, Dale, Harry, Lex, Ed, John, Stephan, Holger, Günther, Maciej, Mike, Murad, and James! I am really stoked to get all these great compliments!
I am happy with this although I did make a couple boneheaded errors, most noticeable is the fact that the pods right by the intake opening by "69" should not be there. I went by the Tamiya instructions for a Block 32 aggressor and didnt even look at my reference material before attaching (and painting, GASP!) them. By then it was too late. The camo was too complicated to try to fix if I tore those bad boys off. So I left them.
Erik, the bluish tint is created like this: First, gloss black primer, followed by Alclad Airframe Aluminum. Then I sprayed random spots of Gold Titanium for a slight goldish hue in areas. Then I used Alclad Hot Metal Blue at differing intensities around the ring to give it that "Heat Stressed Titanium Blue" look.
Eelco, the Masks were an absolute necessity. I would not have attempted this scheme without them. It was not all rainbows and unicorns though, as they are a bit rigid and the contours of the F-16 do not lend themselves to easy masking regardless, especially around the intake area. If someone was going to do this scheme, I would say the SB masks for this are a must have.
28 February 2017, 20:54
Michael PhillipsThanks Alistair, this was a really fun build. Looking forward to building another Tamiya F-16 one of these days. My next one will be an Ohio ANG Have Glass V scheme.
2 April 2017, 19:08
Alistair GrahamI have thought about doing one but so many manufacturers do an F-16, i would not know which is the best. Saying that, i am in process with the Tamiya IL-2 Shturmovik and the quality of these later kits is unbelievable. I love how the sprue attachment nubs are on the mating faces , e.g the wings, so once cut off no need to fettle the curvature of the wing as in a normal model.
2 April 2017, 21:03
Michael PhillipsThe Tamiya is far and away the best 1/48 Viper, but the issue is they only do the C model up to Block 52. Anything with two seats, very early, or higher than a block 52 you will have to go with Kinetic or Hasegawa. I have not built a Kinetic F-16 yet, but I have built a Hasegawa, and that was an easy and enjoyable build.
2 April 2017, 23:01
