Viper Mania Part II - 1/72 Revell F-16C "Wild Thang" (Gulf War)

[Phantome]

Part II of the late 2017 Viper spree that I just finished off recently, here's another Revell F-16C with markings of "Wild Thang", a Desert Storm bird from Shaw AFB.

 

This was a Block 25 and so had both the narrow intake and P&W engine. A few other bits and bobs had to be corroborated with pictures since Revell's instructions do not account for a Block 25 or 30/32 despite these being the only C blocks that the kit gets right! The aircraft depicted is from the 363rd TFS from Shaw AFB with nose art "Wild Thang". The decals came from an old Hi-Decals set that I had since ages ago. I am not a huge fan of Hi Decals. They are quite thick and register in not that great and so avoided as many as I could (only the unit code, serial, and nose art), with all the other stencils coming from an old Superscale sheet, alas they are not made for the Revell kit and are quite incomplete, notably on all the underside bits. Note that the Shaw birds during Desert Storm did not have the walkway lines painted which saved me some trouble.

 

Paints were all Gunze except 36118 (Tamiya XF-24 instead). The centerline pod and the bombs were taken from a Hasegawa weapons set, as was the TER. Although Vipers use a special TER set, it should be noted that in Desert Storm many of them carried the standard types. I also tinted the canopy with a mix of Tamiya transparent yellow and smoke.

 

So mostly was just to have a Desert Storm viper on the shelf. Looks good anyway!

 

 

 

 

 

 

Edited February 4, 2018 by Phantome

[Phantome]

Btw, I made a decaling goof, see if anyone can spot it

[Corsairfoxfouruncle]

Good looking Falcon 👍

[Mark4700]

I think it looks fantastic. And I can’t spot the error with the decals 

[Phantome]

It's more of a historical error...

 

Nobody?