tamiya 1:48 f16c/n aggressor

[fluggy]

thought i would have a bash at this sig too.















going to throw some photoetch at it.





and even some ground crew





have no idea which of the four choices i shall be doing yet.
I shall spend a while on the site mentioned in this post http://intscalemodeller.com/viewtopic.php?f=445&t=15754 many thanks to
"MarkVerploeg" for the link

photobucket sldeshow link http://s207.photobucket.com/user/visler ... lcon%20f16
well thats all for now folks.

john

[Avgas]

[fluggy]

well i finally got a little bench time today,so started with the cockpit. Carpet monster attempts it's first snatch of the project as i drop one of the control sticks.
After a frantic search the piece was located and is now securely taped to a peg.

As this is my first time using photo-etch i discovered a few things, first is when using the Ultimate photo-etch placer it requires only a gentle touch to pick-up the piece(still picking white bits out of p.e grill see photo).

second is just how small an amount of super glue is needed (i noticed that after i took the photo).

third watch the "how to guides" on the ism channel they would have negated the first two and saved so much time.



i also learnt that going slowly and gently when removing the plastic in preparation for photo-etch save loads of time later.

the cockpit tub is cleaned off ready

well thats all for now

john

[MarkVerploeg]

The agressors always look cool
and i see some goodies to spice up the build aswell
have fun building
cheers

[fluggy]

woohoo got some benchtime again.
got a good bash at the photo-etch slowly getting used to how tiny it is and removing bits off a perfectly good model .

















back to the bench for a little undercoating

well thats all for now

john

[Smiffy]

Looking good so far.

[fluggy]

forgot this picture of the little tank located in the landing gear bay.



i used true metal aluminium on it before placing the decal using micro sol and set i did have a little difficulty getting it to stay where i wanted but that was probably due to my lack of skill rather than anything else.

thats all for now

john