HAF F-16C-30

Ruud · by **Ruud** » 22 Sep 2006, 01:40

Hoi Everyone,

Here's my Monogram (RofG) 1/72 F-16CJ built up as a Greek F-16C Block 30 shortly after delivery. All parts from out of the box. Had to splice the BAF parahousing onto the "C" tail, but i think that worked alright.

Decals from Zotz, Hasegawa, and Isradecal. A light wash with diluted Tamiya Smoke. Intake cover is aluminium foil (not easy to work with, but cleaning up that intake would have been worse

).

Not the best pictures, but here they are...

later
Ruud

Ruud · by **Ruud** » 22 Sep 2006, 03:18

Here's a few more pictures of it.

Timpus · by **Timpus** » 01 Oct 2006, 09:51

Nice one Ruud! Wich colors did you use?

seat_dreamer · by **seat_dreamer** » 01 Oct 2006, 11:13

That's beautiful

Thanks for making and sharing the pictures !!!

"Official" Aegean Ghost colors are:
FS 35237
FS 36251
FS 36307

(I think the Aegean Ghost was a USN aggressor color scheme for the F-16N or is it only superficially true ??)

Ruud · by **Ruud** » 02 Oct 2006, 20:39

Hoi,

Thanks guys. For the scheme i used the Model Master line. They have the three colors you've listed. I did try to lighten up the colors some... but it did not seem to have much affect.

The USN is supposed to have the same color scheme. I know the pattern is just about identical. But the USN colors always look very bleached out. Even the weathered HAF Vipers seem to retain more of their "color" than the USN Adversaries.

later
Ruud

Lantirn · by **Lantirn** » 03 Oct 2006, 14:56

Nice work!

Congrats!

Fantasma337 · by **Fantasma337** » 05 Oct 2006, 22:17

seat_dreamer wrote:(I think the Aegean Ghost was a USN aggressor color scheme for the F-16N or is it only superficially true ??)

Correct! HAF officers saw the effectiveness of the USN scheme and requested from GD to apply it to the Greek F-16s also.

http://users.skynet.be/exotic.planes/pi ... /f16n1.jpg

http://koti.welho.com/msolanak/f-16modelling1.html

http://koti.welho.com/msolanak/f-16modelling2.html

seat_dreamer · by **seat_dreamer** » 06 Oct 2006, 16:13

Nice ! I wasn't aware of the way picked to distinct blk30s from blk50s. Efharisto

Scorpion1alpha · by **Scorpion1alpha** » 11 Oct 2006, 06:39

Hey, that's a nice lookin HAF Viper. Looks very real to me. Good job.

Ruud · by **Ruud** » 12 Oct 2006, 23:51

Hoi Guys,

Thanks for the compliments. When i figure out how to get the digital camera to focus on a deeper plain, i'll post a few more pictures of it. But that feat has escaped me so far.

later
Ruud

rjwood_uk · by **rjwood_uk** » 13 Oct 2006, 10:35

Very nice model there Ruud.

How did you make the intake FOD? looks pretty good!!

Richard

Ruud · by **Ruud** » 23 Oct 2006, 20:47

Hoi,

It is made from aluminum foil. Not so easy to work with. But it does look the part. I should have primered it too, as the paint is prone to chip off of it.

I like the looks of it and it certainly serves it's purpose (to hide that darn RofG intake).

later
Ruud

Ruud · by **Ruud** » 18 May 2008, 23:11

Hoi,

Tried some new pictures with a bigger camera. Now they look a bit too dark...

Still not happy with the depth of field/focus.

later
Ruud

Habu · by **Habu** » 20 May 2008, 05:59

You using a point & shoot digital?

Ruud · by **Ruud** » 20 May 2008, 23:34

Hoi Habu,

With the first set of pictures, yeah pretty much. The second set are with a nice camera with a bazooka attached to it. But i'm am going to try it again with a smaller lens. That should work a bit better. So more to come. F-16.net does shrink the pics down a bit more than other sites do, i think.

later
Ruud