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Something like a joke after yesterday's Kinetic announcement. After its Sukhoi "Flanker" family (link) Minibase Hobby Corporation (link) could also be working on a 1/48th General Dynamics F-16 Fighting Falcon kit with ref. 06 ! Waiting for info confirmation. Sources: https://www.facebook.com/sinch.tw/posts/pfbid0XpqMKp7j9k3ijGqgPtQR6Do7Ez1PsLLY9a3T2jRS6GWXUpkiwT7F4zYotmirbAqcl https://tieba.baidu.com/p/7858375503 UPDATE: Please note that we blurred a little part from the above image as we received an email from the owner of Cartograf decal printing company stating that they are not involved with this project and that any use of their name or logo in Minibase marketing documents is unauthorized. V.P.

Hi everyone, I will build the Tamiya 1/72 F-16CJ. I am sure there will be many more of these being built. I won’t make it too spectacular, as I don’t really have the skills yet. I will build the Warhawks 52nd FW commander version OOB without additional extras. I am quite excited about this build, not only because this will be my first GB on Britmodeller, but - as funny as it sounds - this is the first time I will be building a Tamiya kit. I am sitting on needles. 😁 We only have to sleep 9 times before we can start.

Hi there, I have a question regarding the F-16's air to air armament loadout. I have found a picture of an F-16C that carries 6 AIM-120s on weapon stations 1,2,3 and 7,8,9. I believe the launchers are LAU-129. Was there ever a (operationally used) configuration / loadout consisting of 6 AIM-9s? Possibly using the 16S210 launcher. Thanks

This scheme was introduced to us by the aircraft's actual pilot over on ARC with some great shots of it in the paint shop. It mimics the splinter scheme of the early preproduction Su-57 Felon. This particular aircraft is from the 706th Aggressor Squadron of the 926th Wing known as the Cajuns and fortunately Two Bobs wasted little time making decals for it. I also used Bandit Resin Factory's ACMI pods.

Everything has officially arrived for my next project minus a ResKit exhaust nozzle/engine which got here this evening after the picture was taken. If you're familiar with my work, you know I primary build WW2 prop aircraft, but I recently built an F-104 and loved it.... So much so, that I wanted to build another jet and decided to go with an F-16 Aggressor. I decided to go with the green varient as I rarely see it modeled. I’m a sucker for abnormal/unique schemes and that is no different here. A few images of the real aircraft - I am hoping to complete this project before the new year. Wish me luck!

UPDATE & RECAP: https://fb.watch/e5ohbB540U/ - ref. K48100 - General Dynamics/SABCA/Fokkker F-16AM (MLU) Fighting Falcon - NATO - released https://www.luckymodel.com/scale.aspx?item_no=KI-K48100 - ref. K48101 - GD/LM F-16V Viper - RoCAF single seater https://www.luckymodel.com/scale.aspx?item_no=KI-K48101 - ref. K48102 - Lockheed-Martin F-16C block 25/42 Viper - USAF - released https://www.luckymodel.com/scale.aspx?item_no=KI-K48102 - ref. K48105 - Lockheed-Martin F-16D block 30/40/50 Fighting Falcon - USAF - released https://www.luckymodel.com/scale.aspx?item_no=KI-K48105 - ref. K48107 - Lockheed Martin F-16C Viper - USAF Viper Demo Team 2024 - released https://www.luckymodel.com/scale.aspx?item_no=KI-K48107 - ref. K48133 - Lockheed Martin F-16C block 52 Fighting Falcon - Republic Singapore Air Force with markings for the Black Knights Display Team - released https://www.luckymodel.com/scale.aspx?item_no=KI-K48133 - ref. K48146 - GD/LM F-16C block 30 Fighting Falcon - Texas ANG "The Lone Star Gunfighters" - released https://www.luckymodel.com/scale.aspx?item_no=KI-K48146 - ref. K48148 - LM F-16D Viper "Thunderbirds" - Gold Series Parts and Decals by Fightertown Decals - released https://www.luckymodel.com/scale.aspx?item_no=KI-K48148 - ref. K48153 - Korea Aerospace Industries (KAI) KF-16U Viper - Republic of Korea Air Force (RoKAF) - released https://www.luckymodel.com/scale.aspx?item_no=KI-K48153 - ref. K48154 - General Dynamics/SABCA F-16AM (MLU) Fighting Falcon - Belgian Air Force demo bird "Dream Viper" - released https://www.luckymodel.com/scale.aspx?item_no=KI-K48154 - ref. K48156 - General Dynamics F-16C Block 50/52 Viper - Polish Air Force - released https://www.luckymodel.com/scale.aspx?item_no=KI-K48156 - ref. K48157 - Lockheed F-16AM (MLU) Fighting Falcon - Ukrainian AF - released https://www.luckymodel.com/scale.aspx?item_no=KI-K48157 - ref. K48159 - General Dynamics F-16B Fighting Falcon - Kongelige Danske Flyvevåbnet (RDAF), Test Vikings - released https://www.luckymodel.com/scale.aspx?item_no=KI-K48159 - ref. K48160 - General Dynamics F-16A/B block 20 Fighting Falcon - RoCAF 70th Anniversary Flying Tigers - released https://www.luckymodel.com/scale.aspx?item_no=KI-K48160 - ref. K48161 - General Dynamics F-16AM (MLU) Fighting Falcon - Royal Thai Air Force - Cobra BVR - released https://www.luckymodel.com/scale.aspx?item_no=KI-K48161 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The long announced Mirage F-1, the Fiat G-91 or something completely new ? Source: https://www.facebook.com/groups/KineticBuildersGuild/posts/1634727710215508/ V.P.

One of my favorite aircraft. Build from two years ago. Tamiya kit OOB, only the ladders were 3D printed. Because "I was inverted" while gluing the formation lights, I accidentally switched the port and starboard side lights on the air intake.

Another F-16A with the 6512th Test Squadron, 6510th Test Wing, Air Force Flight Test Center at Edwards AFB. November 1991 with a replacement rudder from a New Jersey Air National Guard bird. September 1992 I never got pictures of her in the white/red scheme of the test support fleet before I left Edwards in 1993, so she must have been one of the last F-16s to be re-painted. Thanks for looking, Sven Old Viper Tester.

Source: http://www.master194.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=94249 Dixit French forum Master194 while everybody is talking about the soon to release TamiyAMK Tomcats, Tamiya would have unveiled at the current at IPMS/USA Nationals a 1/48th LM F-16D two seats Viper sprue. True or fake? Still waiting for a reliable source. To be followed V.P.

Hello, Here is my recently completed Hasegawa 1/48 Barak block 30. I have used isracast conversation and decals. Thanks for looking. Cheers.

Hi. Tomorrow January 20 is the 50th anniversary of the F-16's first flight. And earlier this week the Slovak Airforce took delivery of their first F-16C/D Block 70 Since the start has more that 4.600 F-16 been built and it's operative in more than 25 countries I don't think it's a secret that I like the F-16 the same way others likes the Spitfire, Bf109, P-51 etc. And I plan to build at least one from every user/country. For 2024 I've planned to enter as many F-16 I can in the GB's I'll take part in. If my plan works out I'm looking on adding 6-7 new user to my collection. So far I've build 12, 13 if you also count the Japanese F-2. 10 different Israeli version, one Norwegian and one Taiwanese, and the Japanese F-2. 20240118_195406 by Bosse Persson, on Flickr And my stash is well stocked for this years various GB's. At home I've got 15 unbuilt, and I've just this morning ordered 2 more. And I think I've got 3-5 more in the stash that still are at my cottage. 20240118_191038 by Bosse Persson, on Flickr So how does your F-16 collection and stash looks like? Please post some pictures here and lets all of us celebrate this 50 year old. Did I say that I really like the F-16. /Bosse

My first kit finished this year, almost in time for the 50th anniversary of the first F-16 flight - 1:72 F-16AM Fighting Falcon, no 1615, serial 61-630, 53rd Fighter Squadron "Warhawks", Romanian Air Force, Borcea AB 2023. This is an ex-USAF 83-1077 and ex-Portuguese 15134 aircraft, delivered to Romania in 2021 after refurbishing and repainting. I chose this camo just because I simply like it very much. It's also nice to see an old plane with all this modern equipment. Revell kit, CMK resin cockpit, Master metal Pitot tube, AOA probes and static dischargers, Hasegawa missiles, Eduard Sniper ATP and some scratch. Painted with Mr. Hobby C series paints. Decals are from ModelMaker set. Thanks for watching!

Here is my latest build of a 1980s General Dynamics F-16 A Fighting Falcon of the Royal Netherlands Air Force. It is the J-257 of the 322 squadron based at Leeuwarden. Cheers!!!

Hello, evryone! I bought the Italeri F-16 C/D Night Falcon kit by chance at a discount. I just wanted to assemble a model of a contemporary jet aircraft out of a box, carefully paint it and put it on a shelf. It would have turned out that way, unless the decal failed - it was completely worthless. Then I bought the another decal. But it turned out that the prototype on a new decal was from the early blocks and could not carry modern pods. Well, never mind: I decided to assemble the plane in the classic three-color gray camouflage carrying CBU and Sidewinders. A few words about the assembling the kit: the weakest point is the jointing it doesn't correspond to reality. I didn’t want to change things dramatically, so I corrected only some of the most outstanding places. The cockpit is given bare. Slightly improved it (instrument panels, pilot seats, canopy lifting mechanism, gun sight). The canopy covered with Tamiya smoke from inside. I modified the exhaust nozzle so that from a distance it looked like the one, and not like an empty bucket. ALL F-16 manufacturers (except Tamiya) produce a simplified air intake and cover it with a grid like a radiator. Therefore, I decided to depict something resembling a real air intake. I trimmed the stabilizers to match the prototype (early blocks). Cut out several antennas from a beer can. Improved the landing gear and niches simulating the electrical system, hydraulics, battery, gas cylinder, and spotlights (Elf). Static dischargers - fishing line. This is far better than a wire, since one often touches them during the construction and painting process. I made all the necessary formation lights. The aftermarket used: a PITOT tube (the Master kit also included the angle of attack indicators). As well as Hasegawa armament (bombs and missiles). Painting mostly Hobby Color acrylic - “bottom” FS36375, “top” FS 36118, but side surfaces FS 36270 from HATAKA. Nitro varnish (orange) NATAKA. Weathering and some highlights for a panel effect mainly with oil paints, watercolor pencils and AK wet effects fluid. Oil paints diluted with white spirit were applied by an airbrush freehand and through a stencil. Super Scale Decals. Stencils partially Printscale decal. Some pictures showing stages of assembling and painting at the end. F-16B block 10, 428 TFS, 474 TFW, Nellis AFB, Arizona, mid-1980s. Hope you'll enjoy it and good luck!

Belgian F-16s - part of a NATO deployment of Vipers from Belgium, Denmark and the Netherlands participating in the Red Flag 84-4 large force exercise, Nellis AFB, June 1984. 80-3548, FA-57 80-3552, FA-61 80-3555, FA-64 80-3594, FB-19 Thanks for looking, Sven Old Viper Tester

Here is the Work In Progress report for 841220 F-16C Block25C - 57th Wing 64th Aggressor - Nellis AFB: For this build I will use Academy F-16C model in 1:48 scale. There is a great thread in this forum about Academy Viper: Some resin part updates will be used to improve this kit. Serkan

Platz Hobby is to release a new tool 1/72nd General Dynamic F-16A Fighting Falcon kit - ref. Source: V.P

Another 1/144 kit from Trumpeter which I previous completed the F-22A. F-16 has much less parts compared to the F-22A, partially because it comes with NO weapon. Much simpler in design of the kit. It has a 2-part cockpit, the ejection seat and the cockpit ! The panel lines are detailed in this scale but not deep enough. Covered the back of the seat with a thin plastic card as it might be seen after the build. Applied German grey on the inside of the fuselage and around the cockpit. Added other parts to the airframe - noted that most of them are in good fit except the nose cone does fit well but have a huge (in its scale) step between the front fuselage and the cone, need to sand it down. Test fit the canopy too, seems all good. Added a bit of color in the cockpit, dry brush enamel silver, and add a few of different color on the instrument panel and side panels. Also apply a layer of Gaia green color on the seat. Also fit a small piece of transparent green cut off from plastic file folder to make the HUD. Next, I cut a few very thin (less than 1mm) masking tape and make the harness, and brushed blue and silver. It is then time to close the canopy. Applied green stuff putty under fuselage where the wings joint and also in front of the canopy. After rounds of sanding, scribed the panel lines and installed pylons

Hot off my workbench is this 1/48 Tamiya Viper done as a Block 52 of the Republic of Singapore Air Force's 143 Squadron "Phoenix". I used the Thunderbird boxing as the basis for this build. Mainly built out-of-the-box with Fine Molds seatbelts and ScaleNutz decals as the only aftermarket used. To represent a RSAF bird, some details had to be scratch-built including the plate-mounted AIFF antennae, HMCS sensor on the canopy and GPS receiver on the spine. The model was painted primarily with Mr Color lacquers. Weathering was done with a mix of AK Interactive, Ammo by Mig and oil paints. I also played around with some new techniques to give it a more weathered appearance. Loadout depicted is typical for a peacetime intercept mission consisting of 2 AIM-120C AMRAAMs, 2 AIM-9M Sidewinders, 2 370 gallon wing tanks and a AN/AAQ-33 Sniper XR pod on the right cheek station. Hope you enjoy the photos! Mark

Greetings all, I have attached some pictures of my latest build. Out of the box including decals. My first OOB build since the 80's!!! A great build with only minor grumbling around the main landing gear extension struts. Im not sure why the exhaust nozzle looks white, its actually silver to the naked eye. Im considering adding stretched sprue static dischargers but not sure..... cheers

In this new topic I will share my past, present and future works about this unique FSD Viper. There are some topics started by other friends in this forum and I have updated my existing projects using these reference pictures and discussions. First I would like to share here the 3 view drawings I did for three main configurations of the same aircraft with bu no 750750: I will be glad to hear your comments and corrections about the markings and 3D models that I will share here soon... Serkan

Here is my build of kinetics F-16D, unfortunately this kit is simply atrocious, every aspect of the build I had issues with and the amount of filling and sanding needed to get the kit to a decent standard was simply laughable. Anyhow I pressed on and this is the final result, on a more positive note I used Quinta Studios Interior set which really lifted the interior to the next level. I will be using them again for some of my better kits. As always critique and comments more than welcome.

Here is my build of kinetics F-16D, unfortunately this kit is simply atrocious, every aspect of the build I had issues with and the amount of filling and sanding needed to get the kit to a decent standard was simply laughable. Anyhow I pressed on and this is the final result, on a more positive note I used Quinta Studios Interior set which really lifted the interior to the next level. I will be using them again for some of my better kits. As always critique and comments more than welcome.

New boxing for the Kinetic 1/48th F-16A/B NSAWC Adversary - ref. K48004 Block 15 Markings: - NSAWC 04 TOPGUN 90th Anniversary 2009 - NSAWC 60 2006-2009 - NSAWC 53 2004 Decal printed by Cartograf Decal design by FighterTown Decal Model Feature: Training ACMI Pod Related Links Source: http://www.luckymodel.com/scale.aspx?item_no=KI-K48004 V.P.

Hi there Yesterday marked the final day of F-16’s in the Norwegian Airforce after 40 years of operation. The final mission was perfomed by a pair of F-16’s from the Bodø base. A lot of pictures and video’s can be found on the FB Group- Royal Norwegian Airforce F-16 Fighting Falcon 1980-2021. regards Toby