F-16D TAF Tigermeet

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May 19, 2024
The sprues of the mold have seen better days. I hope I can clean this all for a decently fast and fun build.
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May 19, 2024
Cackpit detail is not to bad out of the box. I did tint the HUD glass and I did dril out the cannon port. I don't plan to add much scratch build detail for this one.
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May 19, 2024
The decals for the instrument panels worked great. I hope that is also the case for the bigger decals of the special scheme. I dry brushed the black parts of the cockpit with light grey.
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I started detail painting some of the white parts. I also added a dark grey wash.
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May 19, 2024
The cockpit looks decent. I will build this kit with the canopy closed so most of the detail won't be seen. But it's always good practise to make the most of it.
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Finished cockpit.
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May 23, 2024
The engine detail is not very good and hard to clean with all the flash. I painted the inside of the turbine black an gave it a aluminium dry brush. The exhaust was painted white and was then dry brushed with a black oil paint.
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May 23, 2024
I tinted the cockpit clear part and then masked it off for painting.
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May 23, 2024
Some more steps are completed. The fit is decent even with al the flash but still some filler is needed. I decided to paint the aim-9s blue to go along with the scheme.
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May 23, 2024
The fit of the fuselage is decent but some sanding a filling is needed. The mold of the 1/72 scale f16 from Academy is more detailed. I also filled the pillon holes that arn't needed.
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May 23, 2024
I wanted to start with the decals to see how the big ones preform. My placement is not the best but the decals do look decent and useable. I hope the even bigger more important ones are also like these.
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May 27, 2024
I modified the decal to fit better and i'm reasonably happy with the result. I need to trim the edges a bit and I did get some damage.
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May 27, 2024
The canopy is added and some more parts are painted.
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May 27, 2024
I finished the exhaust. I added some blue heat staining. I hope this will look good with the scheme.
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May 27, 2024
More decals and parts are finished. The wheels od this kit look pretty decent. I also added the angle of attack antenna's to the radome. Not a big modification.
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May 27, 2024
Preschading finished. Primed black with white preshading.
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May 27, 2024
Base layer 1: Sky grey form Vallejo model air.
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May 28, 2024
Some more painting steps are completed. I'm happy with the preshaded effect.
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May 28, 2024
I still need to spray one more layer but I decided to already paint some detail by hand. The real plane seems to have light grey leading edges in picture so I decided to paint those even if the instruction say otherwise. I do like the look of those. I also tried to outline the canopy frame with a black marker. This looks to be working very well but we will see.
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June 2, 2024
Weapon pilons are finished. Only some weathering left.
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June 2, 2024
Decals are done! Preformance is pretty good. The vertical stabilzer and elevators are not glued yet.
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June 2, 2024
A ammo green brown wash is added to both the upper and lower side.
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I adde somem ore weathering with some shipping effects and oil paints.
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June 2, 2024
The final pieces are added and I removed the last masks. I Realised that I forgot the add the jet turbine piece earlier. Well luckily it's not a tail sitter this time like my p-38. I'm also very happy with the black canopy outline.
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Finished!!!
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Comments

47 19 May, 21:26

DerMattes
Watching, looks good so far 👍

28 May, 06:28

TH SCALE MODELS (Thomas Haberl)
Interesting build - I´m in and have a seat here. Progress until is very promising 👌

28 May, 06:41

Vincent
It's going decently well. The decals look to be good so I think I can get a decent result!

28 May, 14:29

Tony Cooke
Preshading results look good!

29 May, 04:27

Vincent
Thanks Tony!!

29 May, 16:07

Clement
Nice work, it looks promising!

29 May, 16:48

Vincent
I finished the kit today. I'm happy with the result. I learned a lot about these big decals and special liveries. This kit need much clean up work but the detail is not bad. I maybe pick one up again when I see a earlier boxing with hopefully a lot less sprue flash.

2 June, 21:06

★ Starfish ★
Great work Vincent! I just love special liveries, even if they're a lot of work it really pays off.

2 June, 21:33

Vincent
Thanks Starfish I know you build many of these scheme and I now know why. I may try some more in the future!

2 June, 21:45

S M
Great looking Falcon!

7 June, 19:11

Guy Rump
Great job! 👍

7 June, 21:48

Tibor Szilvai
Very Nice! 👍

8 June, 14:52

Vincent
Thanks everyone!!! This was a fun build!

8 June, 20:46

Album info

I bought this kit because I needed the pilot figures. But now I want to try a harder scheme with big decals. I hoped this would be a hard build but the kit needs a lot of clean up. Especially the F-16 a parts. But the detil looks ok.
I do not plan to add much detail but I did drill out the cannon barrel. We will see what I can do with this kit.

F-16D Tigermeet 2014 TAF

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