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Newsflash ! I've found a source for Derby Missiles. Paveways Models in Chile does some 3D printed ones. https://pavewaymodels.com/product/derby-set-of-4/ I've just put an order in for two 4-packs of missiles So when they arrive I can arm my F-16 the way I want. Shipping from Chile to Sweden can take up to a month, but I'm not in a hurry, my kit isn't glued together yet. /Bosse

Looks real nice @trickyrich Rich. I'll be following your build even if I'm not able to participate in this GB myself. And I'll be taking notes of your progress since my lap top accidentally ordered all three GWH Tomcats. 20250129_182304 by Bosse Persson, on Flickr I hate it when my computer does this. /Bosse

Hi. I'm continuing on setting up my work table as the dream bench I always wanted to have. I've got some more things added to it that I think will come handy. First a new light frame for my mobile phone so I perhaps can take better pictures. 20250408_172811 by Bosse Persson, on Flickr The stand came with the light. 20250408_173424 by Bosse Persson, on Flickr And you you can adjust both the temperature and the brightness of the light. And it's re-chargeable with a regular USB-C charger. And when I'm not using it for photos I have some additional lighting on my bench which will come handy when working with stencils etc. 20250408_173436 by Bosse Persson, on Flickr And speaking of stencils I got me a new nifty pair of scissors from Japan. 20250408_174047 by Bosse Persson, on Flickr It's quite sharp, and come with it's own stand. The stand is just regular plastic so I think I'll paint that in Gold or something so it really stands out on my bench. 20250408_174807 by Bosse Persson, on Flickr I've also got a new resin saw from Dspiae. 20250408_174820 by Bosse Persson, on Flickr The protective cover also doubles as an extension for the handle. 20250408_174831 by Bosse Persson, on Flickr 20250408_174842 by Bosse Persson, on Flickr My youngest son keeps borrowing my little hand drill, so I bought a new one, also from Dsipae. 20250408_174935 by Bosse Persson, on Flickr Nice red box to keep it safe, and it comes with a set of drill bits and a small Allen key to fasten them to the handle. I also bought a spare set of drill bits because I know I'll break some of them. 20250408_174946 by Bosse Persson, on Flickr I also found some other resin saws online that looked handy to have. 20250410_101318 by Bosse Persson, on Flickr They comes with six different blades, and I set the three I think I'll use the most in the handles. 20250410_171831 by Bosse Persson, on Flickr I've now thoroughly cleaned my airbrush and it's working again. So things are starting to happen on my Chilean F-16. I've primed and painted the cockpit and put in the Quinta 3D decals to it. The front office. 145 by Bosse Persson, on Flickr I'm really sold on this 3D decals, so much better than I'm ever going to paint them. 146 by Bosse Persson, on Flickr Both holes done. 147 by Bosse Persson, on Flickr But something is wrong. I can't get the cockpit to fit inside the fuselage. It's a bit to wide at the back. 148 by Bosse Persson, on Flickr 149 by Bosse Persson, on Flickr It could have something to do with the side panels in the back? 150 by Bosse Persson, on Flickr The aft bulkhead seems to have the wrong profile as well. I think the easiest way to get it to fit is to change the profile a bit on the aft bulkhead. It's a bit strange that the new Gold kit has this fit issue, since as I remember it the older version didn't have them. 151 by Bosse Persson, on Flickr I'll work on this issue and we'll see after the weekend what comes out of it. To be continued..... /Bosse

Hi. Spring has finally come to my neck of the wood. And my morning walk from the underground to work is a bit more pleasing now that the Cherry blossom trees in Kungsträdgården has started to bloom. 💮 128 by Bosse Persson, on Flickr The pasted weekend Anne and I was in our cottage. And the lovely spring sun called for a bottle of wine on the patio. ☀️ 😎 127 by Bosse Persson, on Flickr And we got some of the wild life to visit us. 🦊 125 by Bosse Persson, on Flickr 126 by Bosse Persson, on Flickr Back home I've stocked up on somethings I need for my F-16 builds. Some very nice decal from Zeus projects to stencil the under carriage. Each sheets gives you enough for two aircraft, and I bought three sheets. 132 by Bosse Persson, on Flickr And from the same manufacturer some canopy seal decals for two aircrafts, and I got three sheets here as well. 133 by Bosse Persson, on Flickr And I thought I had some Pitot tubes as home, but I can't find them, so I got 6 new sets. 134 by Bosse Persson, on Flickr And new F-16 has landed in the stash. I'll of course going to build a Ukrainian one at some stage. 129 by Bosse Persson, on Flickr And I also got some aftermarket decals for it. 130 by Bosse Persson, on Flickr Actually it wasn't the decals I was after, it was the PIDS+ pylons I wanted. Kinetics kit only comes with the slightly older PIDS version. 131 by Bosse Persson, on Flickr Yesterday my wife was visiting our daughter and spent the night with her at her flat. So I ordered pizza for me and my youngest son and then we had a boys own evening with him building his What-if Swedish Air Force F-15EX and me working on the Chilean F-16 138 by Bosse Persson, on Flickr I've gotten the air intake in place. 139 by Bosse Persson, on Flickr And the small gap I had in the nose has been taken care of with some plasticard and some liquid sprue goo. 140 by Bosse Persson, on Flickr I've also glued the main under carriage bay in place, and I've also filled the holes for the belly pylon with some round plasticard. 141 by Bosse Persson, on Flickr The enlarged spine is almost done. 142 by Bosse Persson, on Flickr It was a bit to handle when you have to look through two kits and see what parts I could use from the Polish C/D bo and still build a C version from it. But I think I got there in the end and now have a kit that will be a C-version and have a enlarged spine on my Chilean D-version. 143 by Bosse Persson, on Flickr 144 by Bosse Persson, on Flickr And that's it for now. To be continued..... /Bosse

Hi. With what can almost be described as glazial speed my Portuguese F-16 is nearing the primer stage. 135 by Bosse Persson, on Flickr 136 by Bosse Persson, on Flickr 137 by Bosse Persson, on Flickr Hopefully I'll get the wheel wells painted white later this evening. To be continued..... /Bosse

Thanks a lot @Col. /Bosse

I've been tempted to add a third one to this GB, but I've got a bit too much on my plate just now. And there are some other things in life that also have to be attended to, other that just building kits unfortunately. But there will perhaps be some more F-16's from me later on this year. I actually have some ordnance for just this Polish C-version coming in the post any day now, and some other thing for another F-16, so I'm planning ahead. /Bosse

Hi. I've upgraded my work bench with a new chair. I bought a DXRacer gaming chair in some cool colours. I had the opportunity to break it in last evening and it was quite a difference from my old one. Nice an comfy and I had no problems with my back after a few hours at the bench. 117 by Bosse Persson, on Flickr And during the break-in session I continued to work on my Chilean F-16. The air take had dried completely and I glued it in place to the lower fuselage. This is a Block 50 version with the large intake. And that has it own problems; I couldn't get the intake to fit all around. I got a very small gap at the bottom of it. Not a real problem, I actually had to enlarge the gap to get a 0,25 plastic card strip to fit. 118 by Bosse Persson, on Flickr I clamped it in place to get it to sit right. 119 by Bosse Persson, on Flickr 120 by Bosse Persson, on Flickr And then it was time to open a new box. Don't worry I'm not starting a new build. 121 by Bosse Persson, on Flickr I just had to raid this kit for the spine part. My Block 50 kit don't include it, and I don't need the spine parts for my Polish F-16 since I intend to build it in the C-version. 122 by Bosse Persson, on Flickr It clearly shows that the Polish C/D-version is from the older kit and not the Gold Kit. The plastic is much "fatter" to say and the panel lines aren't as crispy as in the Gold Kit. But I think I can live with this. I just have to check what differs between a Polish spine and a Chilean spine. To be continued..... /Bosse

Hi. I've been occupied with other things lately and I haven't had much time over for modelling. But I've managed to clean up the seams around the nose. I still have some more polishing to do, but I can see primer in the near future. 123 by Bosse Persson, on Flickr 124 by Bosse Persson, on Flickr To be continued..... /Bosse

Hello and welcome from Sweden. /Bosse

Cool project. But I would have preferred them both in 1/48 scale. Hope the sell real good and that we'll get them in 1/48 as well. /Bosse

Thank you very much @Col. I'm so glad that you like my little posts about the cottage and the food we enjoy to cook. Hopefully there will be much better weather for the coming weekend and I have plans to take out the BBQ. /Bosse

Hi. This pasted weekend Anne and I was in our cottage for the first time this year. On Friday when we arrived we had a (literal) radiant spring weather, but a bit chilly and lots of wind. 🌞 110 by Bosse Persson, on Flickr 111 by Bosse Persson, on Flickr I disregarded the cold and the wind and had this year first cold beer on the patio. 112 by Bosse Persson, on Flickr Saturday was a bit worse with snow showers, lots of wind, grey skies and cold. So was was inside all day cleaning ut the house. I had planned to BBQ some sausages, but went in to the pan instead because I didn't want to lite up the BBQ in this windy weather. When we came home again on Sunday I continued to work on my Portuguese F-16. I've glued the nose cone in place, and filled the small gaps on the underside. 113 by Bosse Persson, on Flickr The more important top side looks a lot better. 114 by Bosse Persson, on Flickr And the "donut ring" around the exhaust is also in place now. 115 by Bosse Persson, on Flickr And as can be seen, the fit is alright. 116 by Bosse Persson, on Flickr I'll continue working on this one this evening so I can get it to the primer/painting stage before we return to the cottage next weekend. To be continued..... /Bosse

WOW, that looks so nice Werner. I almost feel like starting my own now that I've seen this. /Bosse

Hi, Finally my Portugese F-16 is starting to take shape. I've painted and weathered the exhaust. 102 by Bosse Persson, on Flickr 103 by Bosse Persson, on Flickr The fuselage has been glued together in Three or four stages just so I would get neat seams all along. 104 by Bosse Persson, on Flickr The nose section still have it's issues from the original kit. The side panels has a rather bad fit, but with some work you can get them to sit Okey-ish. To get an as good fit as possible I chose to have the small gap on the underside where it'll be seen the least. 105 by Bosse Persson, on Flickr And then just fill the gap with a small piece of thin plasticard. 106 by Bosse Persson, on Flickr The other side has it own issues if you will have the search light as I will have. The nose section is too thick to give enough clearance for the clear part of the light, so it'll have to be sanded down. I've painted the light chrome on the inside and it'll be masked off Before priming the aircraft. 107 by Bosse Persson, on Flickr 108 by Bosse Persson, on Flickr The main gear bay is almost complete, I just have to add the belly panel before priming. 109 by Bosse Persson, on Flickr And this is how far I've come on my Portougese F-16 To be continued….. /Bosse

Thanks Gents. /Bosse

Hi. I've used Mr Paint MRP-278 Have Glass varnish on my F-35's 287 by Bosse Persson, on Flickr https://mrpaint.sk/index.php?route=product/product&product_id=373&search=Have+glass HTH /Bosse

Hi. It's high time I start working on my F-16D from Chile. So this weekend I spent more or less of it at the workbench. I've glued the front and aft parts of the upper fuselage together. 094 by Bosse Persson, on Flickr Cleared the instrument panels in preparation for the Quinta 3D decals. 095 by Bosse Persson, on Flickr Filled and sanded the infamous 12 ejection pin holes in the air intake. 096 by Bosse Persson, on Flickr When the putty had dried I glued the air intake halves together. 097 by Bosse Persson, on Flickr And the nose gear wheel bay. 098 by Bosse Persson, on Flickr I've also glued almost all sub assemblies together. 099 by Bosse Persson, on Flickr I'll be using an aftermarket exhaust on this one, filling and trying to sand 4 ejection pin hole on each of the exhaust petals is not my cup of tea. This one is from Katran, of which I've never heard of, but the resin looks great. 100 by Bosse Persson, on Flickr It took me about an hour to separate them from their plugs. I hope I can leave the plug on for the inner most parts, if not I'll deal with that later. 101 by Bosse Persson, on Flickr And with that I've official started on my F-16D from Chile. To be continued..... /Bosse

How could I've missed this? Please sign me up for this one. I'm always game for a ship/sub killer. /Bosse

Thanks Mates. I've got some silvering under the decals, so I'll put some more gloss in the labeling side of the containers and see if that will help. Stay tuned for more in a day or two. /Bosse

Thanks @CliffB Cliff. It sure is.. /Bosse

Hi, Let the madness begin. 056 by Bosse Persson, on Flickr And the first logo is on. 057 by Bosse Persson, on Flickr And then the first stack is done. 058 by Bosse Persson, on Flickr Only have 21 left to do. 059 by Bosse Persson, on Flickr To be continued….. /Bosse

Thanks @Jabba I see your way is kind of the same way as mine. If you come up with some other new tricks building the Kinetic (Gold) F-16's I'll gladly take them. /Bosse

Hi. One of the perks of working from home a day is that you can easy squeeze in some modelling during the lunch hour. Today I sprayed the exhausts with some metallic' s. 091 by Bosse Persson, on Flickr And all the parts that are to be in Light Ghost Grey got a second coat of paint. 092 by Bosse Persson, on Flickr And for those who wonder what I had for lunch I can tell; A pasta Carbonara with freshly grated Parmesan and grinded fresh Tellicherry Black Pepper, Yummy. 093 by Bosse Persson, on Flickr To be continued..... /Bosse

Hi. Unfortunately I couldn't do very much building during my holiday due to an eye infection. Bot some small bits was done. I've glued the air intake to the lower fuselage. 088 by Bosse Persson, on Flickr I think this is my 6th, or 7th Kinetic F-16 that I'm building and this is the point to drop the instructions for the first time. Don't glue the front bulkhead to the wheel bays. Instead glue it to the air intake part after it has set. If you follow the instruction it's nay impossible to get it to set in the right position. 089 by Bosse Persson, on Flickr I'll glue the wheel bays in place when the air intake has set, and when i've pained the first stage fan of the engine. 090 by Bosse Persson, on Flickr To be continued..... /Bosse