Lightningboy2000 Posted May 21, 2021 Share Posted May 21, 2021 On holiday this past week so managed to complete another model. Been wanting to build one of the Polish Tiger Meet F-16's for quite a while now, so I got on with it & started the kit earlier in the year. The kit is my go to, for any 1/72 F-16 subject. Goes together with no problems & has a few extra parts for different variants. For the conformal tanks I used the Attack Squadron resin items. These had to be heated & bent to fit the fuselage as they were a bit banana shaped out of the box, but I eventually straitened them out by running scolding hot water over them, which did the trick. Also I knicked a Sniper Pod from the Tamiya kit. The F-16 I've got planned for that kit hasn't been seen flying with one! Everything else was out of the box. I ordered the Model Maker tiger masks for it as they had elements to cover the conformal tanks, but the only parts that stuck were the stripes for the underside & thankfully the Tiger heads on the tail fin, which worked perfectly. Everything else i used Tamiya tape, drew then cut out by hand using tracing paper from the masking set as a guide. I had to use a seperate Model Maker decal sheet for for the markings & stencils, which also came with markings that were applied to the intake & exhaust blanks so I thought it would be a crime not to use them. The blanks also hide the rough innards of the crude Revell intake & featureless insides of the kit exhaust. Paints used were from Ammo Mig. Thanks for looking Martin 51 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
russ c Posted May 21, 2021 Share Posted May 21, 2021 Very nicely done, love the scheme too. Great job 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vultures1 Posted May 21, 2021 Share Posted May 21, 2021 Really great work! Love that scheme - well done 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dnl42 Posted May 21, 2021 Share Posted May 21, 2021 Very nice! Those are among my favorite Tiger Meet markings because of the subtlety. I have a 1/48 family model version in an earlier version of these markings. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shalako Posted May 21, 2021 Share Posted May 21, 2021 1 hour ago, Lightningboy2000 said: The paint scheme in this particular angle, does give a strange look to the airframe. almost like those Hasegawa egg planes. Nonetheless, beautiful work mate! Cheers, Bill Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lightningboy2000 Posted May 21, 2021 Author Share Posted May 21, 2021 20 minutes ago, Shalako said: The paint scheme in this particular angle, does give a strange look to the airframe. almost like those Hasegawa egg planes. Nonetheless, beautiful work mate! Cheers, Bill Thanks Bill. I know what you mean especially when looking at it side on. I should have added black edging to parts of the canopy. Apart from that, I'm not sure if the upper profile of the kits spine & nose is correct. I will do the Tamiya kit soon so I'll see how that looks. Just a cheeky comparison with the real thing. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lightningboy2000 Posted May 21, 2021 Author Share Posted May 21, 2021 2 hours ago, russ c said: Very nicely done, love the scheme too. Great job Cheers Russ, much appreciated! 👍 1 hour ago, Vultures1 said: Really great work! Love that scheme - well done Cheers! 👍 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Britman Posted May 21, 2021 Share Posted May 21, 2021 Very nice indeed Who'd of thought, Polish F16's! Thank you for sharing. Keith 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lightningboy2000 Posted May 21, 2021 Author Share Posted May 21, 2021 1 hour ago, Britman said: Very nice indeed Who'd of thought, Polish F16's! Thank you for sharing. Keith Thanks Keith, yes they've had them quite a quite a while now. Romania have some as well, they look pretty good, & even Bulgaria have a couple. Ukraine are even eyeing up getting some. Now they would look good in digital camo! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MsModeller Posted May 22, 2021 Share Posted May 22, 2021 I remember seeing this at RIAT and thinking how striking, but simple, this scheme looked. Obviously when I say 'simple' I just mean colour palette, because re-creating it as expertly as you have here is something to be very proud of! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
noelh Posted May 22, 2021 Share Posted May 22, 2021 Great scheme and a great model too. I doubt if anyone in NATO back in the Tiger meet heyday back in the 70s and 80s would imagine that one day a Warsaw Pact member would take part with an F16! How times have changed. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stevej60 Posted May 22, 2021 Share Posted May 22, 2021 That's a superb build and finish with a great scheme too,glad to see Poland as a NATO member and modernising it's forces. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GrahamS Posted May 22, 2021 Share Posted May 22, 2021 That’s 1/72??? Wow… Graham 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
F-32 Posted May 24, 2021 Share Posted May 24, 2021 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lightningboy2000 Posted May 24, 2021 Author Share Posted May 24, 2021 On 5/22/2021 at 9:54 AM, MsModeller said: I remember seeing this at RIAT and thinking how striking, but simple, this scheme looked. Obviously when I say 'simple' I just mean colour palette, because re-creating it as expertly as you have here is something to be very proud of! Thank you very much! 👍 Yes I thought that as well. I've also got a Canadian F-18 & Spanish Mirage F1 both grey with grey tiger stripes in the planning stages. Got decal sheets for those. Currently doing a Ukraine Su-24 in the digital paint scheme, and the masks look a total nightmare to do. I'm definitely no expert, just mad as a box of frogs! 🤪🐸 On 5/22/2021 at 11:29 PM, GrahamS said: That’s 1/72??? Wow… Graham Cheers Graham! 👍😊 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lightningboy2000 Posted May 24, 2021 Author Share Posted May 24, 2021 On 5/22/2021 at 2:50 PM, noelh said: Great scheme and a great model too. I doubt if anyone in NATO back in the Tiger meet heyday back in the 70s and 80s would imagine that one day a Warsaw Pact member would take part with an F16! How times have changed. Yep, times are definitely changing in that regard. Would be great to see Romanian & Bulgarian F-16 Tiger schemes one day. You never know! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lightningboy2000 Posted May 24, 2021 Author Share Posted May 24, 2021 On 5/22/2021 at 3:47 PM, stevej60 said: That's a superb build and finish with a great scheme too,glad to see Poland as a NATO member and modernising it's forces. Many thanks, they have been doing a lot to bolster their current Air Force. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BerndM Posted May 25, 2021 Share Posted May 25, 2021 This rather subtle but very nice Tiger is really an eye catcher. Splendit work ! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paintychops Posted May 25, 2021 Share Posted May 25, 2021 That sounds like a huge amount of effort you've gone to, yet it was worth it. Brilliant job! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stevehnz Posted May 25, 2021 Share Posted May 25, 2021 Brilliant, great scheme & great build to show it off. So well done in every way. Steve 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lightningboy2000 Posted May 26, 2021 Author Share Posted May 26, 2021 On 5/25/2021 at 10:39 AM, stevehnz said: Brilliant, great scheme & great build to show it off. So well done in every way. Steve Many thanks Steve! 👍 Martin 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
exdraken Posted May 26, 2021 Share Posted May 26, 2021 Great work on this Tiger Jastreb! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Recommended Posts
Create an account or sign in to comment
You need to be a member in order to leave a comment
Create an account
Sign up for a new account in our community. It's easy!
Register a new accountSign in
Already have an account? Sign in here.
Sign In Now