Here's my F-16A from Academy. The color scheme is from the Israel Air Force. Base kit is an early release F-16A by Academy plus the Hasegawa weapons set III and the bombs from an A-10 by Academy.
The quality is what you get from the price. That's about $5.00
A single drop tank, 2x GBU's, and 2x AIM9 of unknown variant due to lack of details. I had to replace this with a spec-accurate AIM9-L from Hasegawa
I had to rescibe the panel lines and had to add some rivets
Seats were a mediocre and the pilot looks funny. Ill never use it anyway. Landing gears are a so-so.
This is my 2nd hand painted camouflage
This is my rendition of the legendary Netz 107, hailed as the most decorated F-16 of all time, with 6.5 kills plus the strike on the Osiris nuclear plant.
The weapons loadout is the very first strike mission of the aircraft, dubbed "Operation Opera" hence the missing killmarks on the nose. The loadout are 2 370 Gal drop tanks, a belly tank, 2 Mk II GP bombs and 2 AIM9L on the wingtips.
The Academy kit has no decals for the IAF, so I sourced out decals from a Hobby Boss cobra kit.
Everything is hand painted, from start to finish. I pose this as a challenge to myself since this is my 2nd time to hand paint a camo. The paint for camo is from Tamiya Acrylics - Sky, Buff and JSDF Brown. Slightly weathered using Tamiya panel line, and Tamiya weathering master.
Lots of things to improve, but I guess this is a part of the learning curve. Have to work on my photography next.
on my next post... how to hand brush camo.
Stay frosty,
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