Stefanoff Posted July 7, 2020 Share Posted July 7, 2020 (edited) Good day friends! I'd like to present to you my latest complete project - the belgium F-16 MLU in colorfull and very exciting anniversary livery. The kit is the Revell's, well known to many of you. It appear on the market in 2000 and up to now have 16 different issues, most of them in colorfull camouflages, like tigermeet airplanes and etc. The current livery is most exciting livery for my own. It was created by the Happy Design Studio for the 100tg anniversary of 1st squadron "Stingers". More for the kit and the plane you can read here: F-16 MLU kit and plane The painting process you can watch here: F-16 MLU painting Beutifully aranged colors and shapes and huge and pretty Scottish thistle on the fin. And their moto "Nemo me impune lacessit" (No one provokes me with impunity) on the external fuel tanks. The decals in the kit represent the color stripes and all painting on the fin very well, but from my own opinion the colors of the stripes are wrong. The original colors are actualy the standard F-16 camouflage colors. Compared with them, the Revell decals look darker and wrong. Ecpecially the yellow stripes are in difeerend, more warmer tone than the original. You can see the bright, lemon yellow in the video. Therefore I have decided to make the camo on my own using paints. After cockpit assembly, some rescribing and riveting to improve the panel lines I started with the yellow areas. After drying of the paint it was sanded down to remove sharp borders between colors and to blend it with the surounding surface. At the end the yellow was polished. The horizontal stabilizers were also painted, sanded and polished: After that with templates based on the original decals, I have positioned masks and covered the yellow zone. The front yellow stripes are masked with 0.7mm wide masking stripe. The all model was painted with undersurface color light gray. And then started with masking for the second middle gray color. And after painting with middle gray, masked for the black: I have used the great semi-gloss black of Mr. Hobby. From here on all remaing thing was easy. I have changed the original AIM-120 rockets with Eduard's resin ones. The fin decals are just perfectly sized and shaped. The just laid without any problem. The whole decals design work is stunning! Here is the result: Details: . As you can see all stripes are perfectly aligned. The yellow stripes on the horizontal stabilezers are aligned with the feuselage stripes. And few more pictures: Edited July 7, 2020 by Stefanoff 40 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chrisj2003 Posted July 7, 2020 Share Posted July 7, 2020 Stunning paintwork. Even on a display aircraft I’d not expect pristine wheel wells. 😉 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SAT69 Posted July 7, 2020 Share Posted July 7, 2020 Absolutely beautiful paint work. Love a clean F-16. Really nice build. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stefanoff Posted July 7, 2020 Author Share Posted July 7, 2020 (edited) To be honest - I have planed to make wash on the undercarriage bays, but I wanted to keep it clean as possible. It looks little sterile like this, but I don't want dirt in the bays on whole clean aircraft. Edited July 7, 2020 by Stefanoff 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tojo72 Posted July 7, 2020 Share Posted July 7, 2020 Just a flawless paintjob,beautiful. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jhutchi Posted July 7, 2020 Share Posted July 7, 2020 Great paint job there 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vultures1 Posted July 7, 2020 Share Posted July 7, 2020 Very sharp work there! Well done 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stefanoff Posted July 8, 2020 Author Share Posted July 8, 2020 Thanks guys! I'm glad you like it! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lightningboy2000 Posted July 8, 2020 Share Posted July 8, 2020 Fantastic work masking & painting. The only way to go to with scheme. Only question, was that yellow text on the stabilisers on the decal sheet? I thought for a moment that you masked for them. Excellent video of them painting the actual thing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
redleader Posted July 8, 2020 Share Posted July 8, 2020 Nice job! Love the subject. Masking that would've melted my brain box I think. A freer, more modern translation of 'Nemo me impune lacessit' would be; Aye! Come on 'en! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sluffer77 Posted July 8, 2020 Share Posted July 8, 2020 Great build, I really love the masking and paint job you have done. I have one in my stash to build when I get time, but I’m not confident enough to to be masking off like you have done and will use the decals instead. I managed to catch FA-132 at Florennes in 2017 during the TWM which is one of the reasons I bought the kit as I thought it was a fantastic scheme. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Filbert_Wang Posted July 8, 2020 Share Posted July 8, 2020 Absolutely amazing - must be one of the sexiest-looking F16s liveries I have ever seen! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
F-32 Posted July 9, 2020 Share Posted July 9, 2020 Holy cow, amazing job 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FortyEighter Posted July 10, 2020 Share Posted July 10, 2020 Wow, I've not seen this scheme before but you've done a great job of reproducing it! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr T Posted July 10, 2020 Share Posted July 10, 2020 Very nice model of a very nice paint scheme. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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