maandag 31 augustus 2015

Lockheed Martin F-16DJ Fighting Falcon (block 50)

Finished together with the IAF C2 Kfir.
My first F-16 (since the 80's) a pleassant build, the only difficult area was the main landig gear bay and the amount of flash to be removed.
The model is finished with Vallejo 70989 Sky Grey, 70870 Medium Sea Grey, 71097 Medium Gunship Grey and 71046 Pale Grey Blue.

Some photos with the amount of flash.
 
 






 Added a piece of copper wire at the landing gear.



 
















The complete F-16DJ



 Added some home made seatbelts from maskingtape.








zondag 30 augustus 2015

IAF C2 KFIR

Finished today, the Kfir C2. The Kinetic kit was reboxed by Wingman Models. They added a few bits of resin and left out the bombs and ejector pins for the bombracks needed for a C2. A silly decision in my opinion. As the provide the kit with all the possible C2 or C7's flown in the Israeli Airforce. So I picked a couple of Mk82's from other Kinetic kits. The sidewinders are from Eduard and the wingtanks are from Wingman.
The base was done with Vallejo IDF Sand 71141, the masking was done with a variant of blue tack. Than I made a mistake the next layers were sprayed too tick and I had to clean up "rolls" of paint near the blue tack. The other colors Vallejo 71126 IDF Green FS34227and 71125 USAF Brown. The underside is Vallejo 70907 Pale grey blue diluted with water.
For the panels lines I used Ecoline brown (416) and grey (718).





Some shots together with the Italeri Mirage III and the Wingman Reece Kfir.