General Dynamics F-16 Fighting Falcon

Maciej Bellos Back I painted 6 or 7 of those that a friend had built. It was fun! Following!

Irving González thank you, it seems a good build.

Scott Dutton Awesome scheme

Jos Jansen Yesss VIPER time..!

Slavo Hazucha Watching!

Konrad Limmer Welcome Scott, Jos and Slavo!
Waiting for the final parts. They should arrive tomorrow or the day after. Then the show begins (hopefully )!

Stephan Ryll I'll take a seat Konrad

Konrad Limmer Cool ! Come in beer is in the fridge !

Slavo Hazucha Dark beer I assume, of course

Konrad Limmer What else

Thomas Kolb That's a striking color scheme, never seen that before! Will be checking!

Konrad Limmer Welcome Thomas!
Yeah and this makes me a little nervous too !
Next week on Monday is building start. Pics will be shown on the album.

Konrad Limmer Thanks Hans I made a Video when he is taxiing by so it was great indeed. He made also a stop in front of his team tent where I stand so we've done a lot of pics too ! Was a really great show.

Modellbaufabrik Really nice work, budy!

Evgeny Troshkin Whoa! Very nice!

ronan lallet Thank you

Thomas Bischoff something off the beaten track - very attractive bird and well done!

ronan lallet Thank you

zach mo Does any one have a set of these decals or know where I can acquire a set?

Treehugger Somebody else has to answer his question, I just thought to write that:

It has antistatic wicks, which is nice I guess, can't tell if they look authentic. Detailing is probably missing inside the main wheel wells (maybe some resin for that possibly).

For my Hasegawa F-16A I got myself resin wheel wells (a little tricky), and resin cockpit (also a little tricky). I vaguely remember that the Hasegawa kit doesn't have antistatic wicks, so I bought some metal ones, to glue on.

I think, I would look at the price. I've seen outlandish prices for old kits, which doesn't seem fair imo, or, isn't interesting to me.

Dieter Leemans Interesse ^^

Dominique Emmerechts , ik doe alleen weg wat ik dubbel heb, die is te verkrijgen bij syhart

Treehugger I had the opportunity to chose between this newer one from Kinetic and the other one from Skunkworks (based on same Kinetic F-16 molds by the looks of it), so I went with this double seater, the other one was single seater.

wilky How long have Frog been back.
I just did a Google search and can't find anything about them being back in production

Calvin Gifford This is the only Frog release that I know of in recent times. And I was wrong, the "2" in the Block 50 designation means that it has the NSI (small mouth) and P&W F100 engines. Easy to get confused on those F-16 'Blocks'!

Nils Steyaert this build is almost finished, completed model pictures should be up this weekend

Nils Steyaert finally got arround to posting the pictures of the finished model, didnt turn out as good as i wanted, but it will have to do for now.

Łukasz Gliński Interesting

Dan Fri Hi, I've the f-16 tigermeet from Revell (1:32) - If you want, I can sell it to you? BR

Maciej Bellos Will it be an early version or an MLU aircraft?

Vegard Moen Oh I have no idea! Whatever the instructions say. Haha! Im new i town!

Treehugger Btw, I think I've learned that the color of the nose dome might vary greatly, from jet to jet.

Treehugger Where did you get this kit if you don't mind saying? I bought mine many many years ago. Not sure if anybody is selling it anywhere.

Vegard Moen I bought it «used and unopened» from someone here in Norway.

Sylvain Hottiaux Sprue C missing

Roland Revolvermann Great, beautiful
Question: How did you fixed the stand to the model? Screws directly in the fuselage or a counterpart?

Michael Phillips Thanks Roland!

I actually just drill two small holes into the fuselage underside then let the self-tapping screws do the rest. Using two screws makes the attachment very secure, so I never worry about that. I have seen some people cut out holes in the assembly process of a build then superglue in nuts then attach with bolts, but I am never that foresighted when I am building LOL. By the time the fuselage is assembled it's too late to go that route. But since this works for me, I will continue that way.

Roland Revolvermann Thanks, i will try the screw method

Łukasz Gliński Watching

Patrick Hagelstein So cool!!!

Augie Ok that video is just amazing, I am laughing so hard.

Jos Jansen I will definitely follow this one of yours ... my plan is to build the 'Blizzard' version!

Michael Phillips Count me in... I am doing this exact scheme but in a two-seater! Oh, and that video is awesome!

Holger Kranich Welcome all! As you can see, i changed my kit to the best available option for my undertaking. When will we start? Now? Immediately? Bah, still so long to wait...

Stephan Ryll 5 day left Holger - for Australia and New Zealand 4,5 thinking about moving over for the build ;S

Holger Kranich I am looking forward!

Brian Casteel I've always loved those cool-grey camo schemes...

Patrick Hagelstein Maybe nobody dared to build this kit as it is so expensive....

Patrick Hagelstein F16 TAMIYA | Album by STRATUS (1:32)
I know Ronny Verlaek built it.

Donald Dickson II What? 140.00 isnt all that much. *choke*

Andrew Rice I have built this model, and it came up a dream.

Michael Phillips Thanks for the tips Maciej, F-16 blocks tend to confuse me. Small mouth, Large mouth, GE, PW, gear doors, strengthening plates... I will have to go look and see what is in the C kit.

Elias Prokopiou Please go for the F-16D!!!

Patrick Hagelstein clubhyper.com/reference/f16blockssb_1.htm There you go, Michael!

Michael Phillips Thanks Patrick, that link is AWESOME! It answers pretty much any Block related F-16 question. I really appreciate you posting that!

Michael Phillips So I have made my decision... I am going to build the F-16D.... AAAAAAAAND the F-15DJ Japanese Aggressor!

I will do the F-16D first, as it will be a considerably faster build (the Hasegawa F-16C I built a few years ago was very easy to build, if my memory serves me correct)

Patrick Hagelstein Even better choice!

Patrick Hagelstein PS, you're welcome!

Slavo Hazucha Excellent choice, I guess no one can complain

Jos Jansen I decided to add another kit from my stash to this project, personally I find the Vipers from Tamiya more detailed instead of Hasegawa.

...to be continued!

Stefaan Hoste That decal set looks interesting.

Patrick Hagelstein If you're doing a Block 25, that Tamiya kit is all you need. It builds as a Block 25 straight out of the box. And yes, has for more and finer details than the Hasegawa one. There's definitely a place for the Hasegawa one but as you have the Tamiya one, just go for the Tamiya one.

Slavo Hazucha Go Jos! - the benchmark set with the Wolfhounds Eagle lets expectations soar Following with pleasure!

Maciej Bellos The Tamiya is just what you need Jos. And as you have built one already, it will go easily!

Daniel Thats a nice warm up for the group build, following!

Stephan Ryll I also teak a seat

Jos Jansen Guys...you can follow my WIP in my album:

DONE !! | Indonesian Air Force F-16C Block 25 | Album by Banshee13 (1:48)

Moritz Fentzahn Sounds good

Nathan Dempsey Agreed. There are so many now my newsfeed is on overload trying to watch them all.

Daniel Agree, we should aim for Dec but if someone doesn't make it, he wont be banned from scalemates Do we make a mass-roll-out after Christmas or does everyone roll as soon as finished? I would somehow like the first option

Augie I'd say roll em out as they are done

Patrick Hagelstein I'm a really slow builder and have to start even later but I kinda like the idea of a mass-roll-out but think that that might be a hard thing to do as mates tend to proudly show their stuff.

Slavo Hazucha In the group build event, under the list of participants is a section "Photoalbums" with nothing attached...

I have not yet discovered how to add one, but someone better with "this type of things" could - and then we could select one Album owner and everyone who finishes a GB model can give him/her 1-3 pics with a name/build title on them and on 31.12 or whenever agreed in DEC we roll it out, stragglers will be added once they finish later. That way we would have a "celebration" and one hub for all the goodness that comes out of this

What do you think?

Patrick Hagelstein

Sergej I Good idea Slavo, maybe limit to 5 so all sides can be covered ! Perhaps move this discussion in the GB section.

Patrick Hagelstein Oh man! How I love that beat up bird in that cover picture.

Daniel beat up is what we aim for I think this will be fun!

Patrick Hagelstein Looking forward to it!

Michael Hickey Awesome!!

Jos Jansen Beautiful scheme on that Viper....good choice!

Sergej I Another Viper! Following

Maciej Bellos In!

Sergej I Really wondering how you will paint the small black digi-dots... but we will be there to cheer you for each and every one

Daniel these are chipped paint and I plan to try some new (for me) chipping techniques. We'll see. Your cheering will definitely help to pull this off

Nathan Dempsey Dont know how I missed this one earlier. Nice Viper!

Michael Phillips Awesome subject, count me in!

Ingo F This are for the 1:48 scale, mine will be 1:72.
But hey, i can use the picture for reference.

Hans Robben 1/72 one:
advmodprds.com/am72-130.html

Ingo F Cool thanks! Will try to get them.

Daniel very very cool! and possibly the most up-to-date camo in the GB

Nathan Dempsey Nice! Another Viper with a cool camo pattern Great choice Ingo.

Ingo F Thanks guys!

Sergej I Digi Viper! Great! Can't wait.

Maciej Bellos The freshest addition in the Nellis family.

Jos Jansen Oh yeah, exotic Vipers...this one of IDF is one of my favorite scheme...following !!

Daniel different show, same crowd^^

Moritz Fentzahn Thanks for your keen interest mates, but it will take a while, before Starting this. Too many projects on the bench right now

Andy Ball Please let me know how the kit comes together- I guess as it's Tamiya it'll be good?

Paulo Castro That's a very good looking model. I have the same in stash, how was the building? Did yu use any aftermarket accessory?
Cheers

Vladimir Thanks! Given the age of the kit is going fine. There were problems with decals - crack.
From aftermarket used resin cockpit from Aries. Good luck!

Paulo Castro Thanks