F-16AM - BAF 349 SQN "65 years"

Ekki
Great result.

Mark
Excellent work. 👍

Ronan
very nice paint job 👍

Spanjaard
beautiful

Michael Kohl
I like your Falcon

Finn
Well done

scalemates
love it 👍

Neuling
So do I !

Łukasz Gliński
Lovely indeed 👍

Guido
Thanks for the kind words everyone!

David R. Meizoso
Outstanding! Congrats!

Gary Victory
Really nice work Guido... Hard to believe it's only 72nd scale. Top Job Sir.

Marius
Very nicely done. What do you think about the kit? I am thinking about it too.

Christian Bruer
Very nice work and finish 👍

Daniel
Very beautiful variation in the grays👌🏻

Neil
Agreed! 👍

Guido
Thanks again!

@Marius, the Revell F-16 kit is a decent kit - and I think the best offering for the -AM versions.

It needs some work to make it really nice with area's of attention being:
- cockpit -> I'm not aware of a PE-set for the AM versions, but carefull painting will be good enough for the scale. And a resin seat is better than the kit part, tough that one is decent enough if you keep the canopy closed for example.
- air intake -> this is probably the most tricky part in the kit given the way the parts are designed. They'll leave you with some nasty lines on the inside which I only filled and sanded "roughly" , meaning good enough but not perfect. In the end, it will in any case be hardly visible.
- landing gear bays -> good enough detail present, but has room for own improvements. I didn't do any.
- matching front part (with the cockpit) with main top fuselage part -> can be tricky to glue them correctly, but when you take your time while doing, it should be ok without any issues.
- engine nozzle -> is from the basic type so a resin replacement adds value without question.
- static dischargers -> there are too thick and break off easily, so the Master replacements are needed to make it nice
- pitot -> is a bit rough, also here Master replacement is valuable, but I found it tricky to make it a good match - the nose cone part of the kit has an odd shape, but ok, it worked.
- other things I did (1): resin fuel tanks, coz I didn't want to bother glueing the kit ones... 😄
- other things I did (2): rescribed and rivetted the whole things (was a first).

I've 10+ more of this kit in my stash as I'd like to build the complete "BE Tiger Fleet", but we'll see how far I can take that "project"... 😄

Tamiya's F-16 in the scale is probably better, but as said, I think this one is the only decent -AM version. Out of the box you can build a decent model with it, but a resin seat, exhaust and the Master items are simple things that make it look so much more refined.

Oh, it was only my second jet in 1/72nd scale. First one was a Rafale, still need to upload that one.

Thanks!

Marius
Thank you Guido for the very detailed review. I will very likely try it too.

Well, I managed to finish 8 Tornados and the my 8th MiG-21 is about to be finished with 3 more in work now. So I can totally understand your "little" project. I am sure you will do it. I think the difficult part is maintaining the same acceptable or good quality standard with all of them, because at some point you start getting tired of them.