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Revell 1/144 F16C now two F16cs; now finished


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welcome along with the first baby of the build! :thumbsup:

 

I was really hoping to see some 1/144th models in the build (still hoping @CliffBwill bring a 1/100th wee beastie to the build) and glad you have decided to build her. I do hope will cover all the scales and models in this GB.

 

That does look to be a very colourful scheme, it should look great.

 

Good luck with the build.

 

 

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Well I’ve started cutting bits off the sprue. I’ll probably assemble it together over the weekend. Probably have something to show soon. Although atm I’m on a charge to get my anything but injection, unaired and less than a tenner entries moved on. 
 

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My WIP floweth over :) 

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11 hours ago, trickyrich said:

Ekkkkk!!!  ........ and I thought I had too many projects going on at once! :yikes:

Believe it or not that’s probably only a quarter of my wip. I have three Bristols for the Bristol GB, eleven ( yes, eleven ) me 109s for that GB and a couple of shelf of doom builds ( a HP O/400, an albatross CIX, an Etterich Taube, a Fokker DR1 and an Airfix jeep) But the Flivver will be finished today and there are several others near the door.  I really should keep my wip down to single digits :) But I love starting projects and I sort of enjoy inching several projects along simultaneously.
 

Mostly it means that I can chose the kind of modelling I’m up for in a given day, ie a bit of oob modelling or some detail work or painting or fabrication a fit keeps my modelling interesting and varied. 

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194d9dd8-a5ea-4e4b-b472-462060a5786a.jpeMain fuselage assembly in progress, as much lead shot as possible stuffed into the front; going to need a surprising amount of filling, the seams on the back of the fuselage and at the underside of the wings are ugly.

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On 6/30/2021 at 12:20 AM, trickyrich said:

Stuffing it with plastic is the only way to go in this case.

Absolutely. But funnily enough I’m finding things like this time and again on 1/144 kits it’s as if nobody tries to build them before releasing them.

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I picked up a second one over the weekend, the box scheme is a tiger meet scheme and I’m tempted to use it but I have a few other candidates, the trouble being that there are so many cool F16 schemes out there.  
 

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So I’ve found the instructions and decal sheet for F16 #2 and it’s exactly the same colour scheme but with different decals. I just can’t bring myself to do that so after a quick search on the interweb I have come up with a scheme I like which I can feasibly accomplish in the time available.

 

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So we shall be going Arctic Agressor on F16#2 more to follow. The only man for both is to get primer, preshade and first camo colour on tomorrow.

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resized_3851231d-dcf9-42e7-86df-6ad54a8dA little more work on the twins. Undercarriages now mostly attached. Minor gaff the tail on the gunslingers machine should have been light gray, only realised it when I had the decals on, not a lot I can do about it, we now just have the low contrast version ;) 

 

Don’t know how I managed it but I was able to carefully peel off the fin decals, paint the fin gray and then (extremely) carefully reattach the decal to the still wet tail, so more or less fixed ( yay)

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