SCM Aggressor Group Build Fall 2019

Bird1: 86-0295, USAF 18 AGRS 'AK', F-16C Block 30D 

Bird2: 85-1373, USNavy NFWS, F-16N Block 30C 

This is it! Stash for both Aggressors accounted for and ready for October.  

And one daylight photo... 

These gray tones are going to be a challenge to match! And not so many decent photos available... 

Carpetry and masonry hath begun... 

Aires resin cockpit. Cleaning it was... I ought to be rescued by Greta, breathing so much plastics... 

Dryfitting... 

Cleaned the main wheel bays and nozzles... 

F-16N's fifty shades of gray test... 

F-16N's updated gray shades. I think this is much closer now... 

Well I haven't been sleeping... just slow over life 

My eyesight is fubar after this... 

But it does look decent tho. 

IP surface still work to do 

This ought to do it... 

Putty time, my least preferred part of modeling :/ 

...because it is never OK enough  

Resin... my first time.  

This is better  

Ordnance for both birds 

F-16N will not have anything under wings. 

First time pre-cut masks... don't want to do it any other way ever again, this is pleasure  

...and drying 

The official scheme for the N-bird 

Mr Surfacer 1500... this stuff rocks. 

And that is it for this weekend  

Nozzles insides in bourbon vanilla cream  

Had fun with preshading  

Will be pity to cover it with paint 

from below 

and bits and bobs... 

Alaskan Viper waiting primed.. 

first shade of gray 

putty over first 

putty over second 

from below 

...aaand last of the three grays 

with radome painted 

closeup, manually rolled rivets... go count them  

left wing 

...looks really massacred from close, but that's just technology, eyes don't see... 

F-16N with fifty shades of gray. Seems about right, check reference photo, feedback most welcome. 

163272 Glazed for decals and paneling 

Front 

Looks beat up like an averge MiG  

Nozzle AKI steel with transparent Tamiya red and green for variation 

Decals mostly on, will not be adding stencils as they were overpainted on the original aswel... 

Paneled, weathered, matt lacquered, main part done. Now small bits... 

Minus the ordnance, I deem this one complete! ACME pod and Sidewinder and better pix, when I am home for daylignt 

Meanwhile, the Alaskan Aggressor is standing by for the paint job... 

Using Aero Masks is easy peasy... 

Maybe its comparable to e-bike v. bike arguements... 

...but since this is for my soul... 

...masks FTW! ... 

green, mask, brown, mask, black, mask... 

final green, and.... 

...unmasking! 

Took me five hours for all the masking and painting. I'm sold, ordering more! 

Propperly glazed for decals! 2 layers of GX then twice over with Mr Leveling Thinner to get that shine.