F-16 CJ - Tamiya 1/72

[yak face]

Fantastic scratchbuilding Francesco , i love this sort of build , cheers tony

 

[Polux]

Wow!! Magnificent!!

Oh my god!! I can not imagine you handle a 1/24 aircraft, it will be amazing!!!!!

 

[Ziper_it]

WOW, lot of comments here. Thank you very much mates.

Short update: I closed the fuselage and attached the wings, still trying to fix the seam on the upper surface joint (if you mount this kit I'd suggest you to add a spacer inside the top half fuselage to help keeping it in shape).

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Intake is not yet glued, waiting for painting if tri-tone camo. Current plan is to reproduce the machine in Spangdheim Germany, which is specified as a tri-tone in the instructions but seems two tones only from the pics I've found.

Francesco

 

[Ziper_it]

Ok, she's painted now. However something doesn't convince me on the colors, I will check tomorrow in daylight.

In the meanwhile I tried to reproduce at best the exhaust. Hope you like it.

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Francesco

 

[noble]

Lovely work so far, the detail in the wheel bays look very nice indeed.

scott

 

[Ziper_it]

Thanks Scott.

Ok, checked and paint is complete.

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Thinking if I should dare to darken the canopy, that would be the first time for me ...

Francesco

 

[papa 695]

Looking very good Francesco

 

[steve scan]

Francesco, this is excellent modelling if I could achieve this standard in 1/48 I would be a happy camper.

 

[Ziper_it]

Thanks Ian and Steve,

What about the seat (under construction)

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Francesco

 

[papa 695]

Great start on the seat Francesco. Looks good enough to sit on

 

[Ziper_it]

Thanks Ian, now is completed.

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[Polux]

Wow! Precious tiny seat!

 

[papa 695]

Great work should look fantastic in the tub

 

[Ziper_it]

Thanks mates.

I moved along with painting and thinking I'm done

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This machine is pretty clean in all the pics I've found (not for you, Polux), so I tried to stay on the light side, what do you think?

 

[papa 695]

Well I think it looks spot on Francesco great paintwork

 

[Polux]

I'm with Ian, the paintwork looks great Francesco. Smooth job

 

[Ziper_it]

Thanks Ian and Polux.

I'm thinking to reproduce the have glass by adding some Alclad to the transparent gloss varnish. Anyone tried this before?

 

[flyjoe180]

That looks great Francesco. Did you decide to tint the canopy or not?

 

[Ziper_it]

Hi Joe, thank you.

Yes, at least I will try. As I don't want to try exoteric mixes (coffee, future, inks and food colors) I just thought I may try using Alclad burnt metal extremely thinned, it could give that golden shade to the canopy.

I will report tomorrow or the day after (had dinner with Japanese customers tonight so no modeling but I was really about to ask them to bring me some Tamiya kits next time)

 

[Ziper_it]

Hello everyone,

I'm still working on the canopy as I'm not fully convinced about the result.

In the meanwhile I worked on the model, completed the fuselage by spraying highly diluited Alclad, to simulate the have-glass, then I applied a coat of gloss varnish and applied the decals, finally I slightly washed everything.

Hope you like it.

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Francesco