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F-16 livery canumdrum

Posted: Thu May 12, 2016 1:21 am
by Vleugelmoer
Having just bought and received the 1:32 F-16 Sufa kit I bought from Paul I'm now stuck between an rock and a hard place deciding on how I'm going to build it. I have inspected the contents of the kit and there is enough styrene to last a while :jd: and also do several variants.

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The kit :drool:

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IDF paint scheme

As the IDF color scheme is not as exotic as it once was in my opinion i'm contemplating doing something different.

with some minor alterations I could convert the Block 52 Israeli Defense Force Sufa to a block 60 United Arab Emirates :think:

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Or with some other minor adjustments do a Block 52 Hellenic Air Force version :think:

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I could really use some input from my fellow modelers on the livery selection and decal options available.

Thanks for the advise and as always happy modeling

Paul

Re: F-16 livery canumdrum

Posted: Thu May 12, 2016 10:09 pm
by Always48
those greek ones look the biz in my humble opinion.

Interesting that the canopy is only tinted up front, i never clocked that before.

Re: F-16 livery canumdrum

Posted: Thu May 12, 2016 10:16 pm
by Vleugelmoer
The canopy transparency for most dual fighters consists of two parts due to health and safety weight restraints ;) have seen it before on some Dutch F-16 in the past as they ran out of tinted ones after some peace activists got on to an airbase and started taking axes to the fighter there...

The kit comes with a clear and tinted canopy so might give a custom tint job a try :JD:

The Greek version would also be the "EASY" ;) conversion.

Re: F-16 livery canumdrum

Posted: Sat May 14, 2016 9:33 am
by shortCummins
I like the Greek camo