General Dynamics F-16 Fighting Falcon

Ben M I built that kit in like '77 Would love to see a pic!

d hadley Pics coming i promise!

Dave Flitton What a throwback!!! built this soon after it came out, and witnessed the first F-16 unit set up at Hill AFB

Ben M I brush painted mine, it wasn't a beauty as a result, but I did all the masking and decals and was proud of the job I did, it was likely the most complicated painting I had done at that point.

d hadley Dave, I am truly jealous! i was too young to see the first F-16s at hill but i fell in love with that plane the first time i saw it at an air show up there.
ben, we have all been there!you should still be proud of the job you did back then as it was the best you could do. i have several of my early kits that are not pretty but i have found lately that i can respect what i was able to accomplish in my youth and know that i have come a long way. i kind of like being able to see my own growth through this hobby. sorry for the little bit of a soap box moment!

Ben M I still don't get the result I see in my mind but after I finish a build I find I'm generally happy with it. I love the red/white/blue on this one.

Philip De Keyser Hi Holger, it would be the kit from Italeri, the Phantom II F-4E in the Vietnam scheme with the decals from Aero Master Phantoms over Vietnam, I replaced the ejection seats from the kit with two new seat from QB (QuickBoost), I just started with him, when it's time to take pictures I'l placed them on the net, greetings Phil

Holger Kranich Yeah do it, i´m still hungry for phantoms!

Marek Swiderski Model looks fantastic. There is a missing parts on tail fuselage [lights]?

Philip De Keyser Hi Marek, you are right, i'm looking in the spearbox at a light and I'll placed it on the Viper, thanks for making me attention at this, greetz Phil

Marek Swiderski

Stefaan Hoste Hey, i heard there is an issue with the nose in this kinetic offering. How did you deal with it or is it nog big deal?

Maciej Bellos It looks great! Well done!

Philip De Keyser @Stefaan, I had no problems with the Build of this F16, just be careful with the fuselages, these are in 4 parts, that needs some dryfitting.

Thanasis Kourkoulos It's really a shame that no company has to offer a new tooling kit of this great airplane.

Treehugger Ah hold on.

Kinetic has a new mold the F-16XL2 (two seater) in 1:48, and also sold by Skunkworks (single seater) based on the same molds apparently. I have the Kinetic 48086 kit myself.

I remember, I guess it must have been the Monogram kit box in 1:72 scale, when I was a kit. Never built it myself, but it looked nice.

Thanasis Kourkoulos You are correct Treehugger. I have it on my wishlist but forgot it. I prefer though the 72 scale otherwise I'll have to buy a new house! Monogram's XL wasn't quite adequate as those in 48th. It reminds me of another long forgotten company , ESCI, which had great 1/72 scale models but their 48th were sometimes not even close to the smaller one

Aris aka Amen Thanasi it's shame, but maybe kinetic downscale her 1/48 kit.

Treehugger nice to know that, I may search at Amazon if that kit was nice.

Christian Bruer Nice start, count me in.

Maciej Bellos I hope I build mine before you do!!!

Michael Phillips Oh, I am sure you will! I don't even have the decals for this yet. The Caracal sheet is OOP and proving to be very hard to get a hold of. BUT, I saw on ARC forums Kursad, owner of Caracal Decals, has said he plans to release an extended Foreign Vipers sheet that will include all of the ones on the sheet that had the Moroccan scheme plus more. So I will likely just wait for that.

Patrick Hagelstein If you put just a tad more effort into this one as compared to your Arctic Viper, I might join in.

Pierre Sweet, wanna make that scheme in 72, will follow.

Michael Phillips Welcome Patrick and Pierre!

Pierre, sure is a cool looking scheme, isn't it! I just gotta get my hands on some decals for it LOL.

Patrick, I will definitely try to put at least a tad bit more in!

Patrick Hagelstein Pfew.... That got me relieved..... Thanks! I'll keep watching!

Patrick Hagelstein Cool to see by the way how the colors can change per picture, ranging from a dark dull brown to an almost orange in your cover picture. The sand kinda keeps that same pale hue though.

Patrick Hagelstein As a kid I built the 1/72 Revell version. Curious to see how this 1/48 version will turn out.

Harry Eder Great start! I´m looking forward! Which decals will you use for your Bandit?

Pavel Pinzhin Oooooh! Can't even imagine, what you can achieve with the kit that is already as detailed OOB as this one!

Pierre-Christian Baudru Thanks guys ! The bandit decals are from TWO BOBs. Cheers.

ILS 07 I found mine new on ebay (still in box plastic) sometime last year, but paid a premium ($240 I think?). I occasionally see them for sale from Japan, but anywhere from $300-$600, which is beyond a reasonable price to me (depends on how bad you want it though). They are out there, but I don't think you'll find one near MSRP. May be cheaper to buy the CJ Block 50 and buy an aftermarket small mouth duct, exhaust nozzle, and the other pieces to convert.

Dead Area Thank you for your help but I want one of these just to have one with this amazing looking cover

Patrick Hagelstein F-16 C (Block 32/52) "Thunderbirds" (Tamiya 61102, 1:48)
The 1/48 scale should be readily available and is equally good.

Martin Hi Neal. Do you have the figures for this project and if so would one fit in the seat with the canopy closed? I also wonder why they sell 2 figs for this aircraft.

Neal Parkes Hi Martin, so the figures are separate to the kit and made by PJ Productions, you get two in each little bag. They should fit, well I hope they will.

Clifford Keesler Nice project.

Patrick Hagelstein Bring it on!

Laurent "HELLER-forever" nice project

Konrad Limmer Watching

Roland Gunslinger Welcome mates and thx for your interest
Originally i wanted to continue with this after my aggressor cat:
F/A-18E Super Hornet "Gunslingers" | Project by Roland Deschain (1:32)
But now, it is not certain yet

Laurent "HELLER-forever" nice

Laurent "HELLER-forever" great

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.

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

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.

Łukasz Gliński Watching