SCM Aggressor Group Build Fall 2019
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August 27, 2019Bird1: 86-0295, USAF 18 AGRS 'AK', F-16C Block 30D2
September 28, 2019Bird2: 85-1373, USNavy NFWS, F-16N Block 30C3
August 26, 2019This is it! Stash for both Aggressors accounted for and ready for October.4
August 26, 2019And one daylight photo...5
September 28, 2019These gray tones are going to be a challenge to match! And not so many decent photos available...6
October 2, 2019Carpetry and masonry hath begun...7
October 2, 2019Aires resin cockpit. Cleaning it was... I ought to be rescued by Greta, breathing so much plastics...8
October 2, 2019Dryfitting...9
October 2, 2019Cleaned the main wheel bays and nozzles...10
October 2, 2019F-16N's fifty shades of gray test...11
October 3, 2019F-16N's updated gray shades. I think this is much closer now...12
October 23, 2019Well I haven't been sleeping... just slow over life13
October 23, 2019My eyesight is fubar after this...14
October 23, 2019But it does look decent tho.15
October 23, 2019IP surface still work to do16
October 23, 2019This ought to do it...17
November 3, 2019Putty time, my least preferred part of modeling :/18
November 3, 2019...because it is never OK enough19
November 3, 2019Resin... my first time.20
November 3, 2019This is better21
November 3, 2019Ordnance for both birds22
November 3, 2019F-16N will not have anything under wings.23
November 3, 2019First time pre-cut masks... don't want to do it any other way ever again, this is pleasure24
November 3, 2019...and drying25
November 3, 2019The official scheme for the N-bird26
November 3, 2019Mr Surfacer 1500... this stuff rocks.27
November 3, 2019And that is it for this weekend28
November 24, 2019Nozzles insides in bourbon vanilla cream29
November 24, 2019Had fun with preshading30
November 24, 2019Will be pity to cover it with paint31
November 24, 2019from below32
November 24, 2019and bits and bobs...33
November 24, 2019Alaskan Viper waiting primed..34
November 24, 2019first shade of gray35
November 24, 2019putty over first36
November 24, 2019putty over second37
November 24, 2019from below38
November 24, 2019...aaand last of the three grays39
November 24, 2019with radome painted40
November 24, 2019closeup, manually rolled rivets... go count them41
November 24, 2019left wing42
November 24, 2019...looks really massacred from close, but that's just technology, eyes don't see...43
November 24, 2019F-16N with fifty shades of gray. Seems about right, check reference photo, feedback most welcome.44
December 8, 2019163272 Glazed for decals and paneling45
December 8, 2019Front46
December 8, 2019Looks beat up like an averge MiG47
December 8, 2019Nozzle AKI steel with transparent Tamiya red and green for variation48
December 8, 2019Decals mostly on, will not be adding stencils as they were overpainted on the original aswel...49
December 25, 2019Paneled, weathered, matt lacquered, main part done. Now small bits...50
January 19, 2020Minus the ordnance, I deem this one complete! ACME pod and Sidewinder and better pix, when I am home for daylignt51
January 26, 2020Meanwhile, the Alaskan Aggressor is standing by for the paint job...52
January 26, 2020Using Aero Masks is easy peasy...53
January 26, 2020Maybe its comparable to e-bike v. bike arguements...54
January 26, 2020...but since this is for my soul...55
January 26, 2020...masks FTW!...
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January 26, 2020green, mask, brown, mask, black, mask...57
January 26, 2020final green, and....58
January 26, 2020...unmasking!59
January 26, 2020Took me five hours for all the masking and painting. I'm sold, ordering more!60
January 27, 2020Propperly glazed for decals! 2 layers of GX then twice over with Mr Leveling Thinner to get that shine.61
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