1/72 Italeri F-16C |
Gallery Article by Erickson Ong
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Dec 2 2003
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Well
this is my first time to post in ARC and finally after long sleepless nights of
thinking, I finally had to courage to post my work here in ARC. This is my
second work an F-16C from Italeri which is a very terrible kit starting out from
the quality of the seat shown below …it was horrible!
I had to scratchbuild the whole cockpit esp the ejection seat since here
in the Philippines
I have no knowledge of any
detailed sets of cockpits being sold. The kit started out as an unpainted plane
since a few years ago whenever I bought a kit I just glued it all together…now
grown up I decided to take it all off apart and remodel it. The whole building
of the kit didn’t go well since while in the middle of painting the whole
model it slipped off my hand and fell to the floor the right wing broke apart as
well as the left elevator little did I know that the canopy also cracked since
it was masked off and I didn’t know that it got damaged after I finished
making the whole model and I was totally disappointed after seeing the end
result of my model…..but luckily I went to the hobby store and found an
Academy F-16A that sold for only 2.5 US dollars (which I think represented the
early prototype version shown below) and used the canopy to replace the damaged
one in my F-16. By the way the Academy kit that I bought was poor in every
detail and what would you expect from a 2.5 US dollar kit. Oh well I plan on
making it an F-2 fighter of the Japanese Air Force.
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images below to see larger images
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I
started out of course with the cockpit and painted it all off with I think Gunze
H68 dark gray and medium gray and used Gunze flat in order to tone the camo
scheme and look like a bit gunship since I cant find a gunship color in my hobby
store. Oh the decals that I used doesn’t represent any real aircraft of this
version since the squadron markings that I used uses two seater F-16s but I just
like it that way and for me if a model looks like the real thing..it's fine with
me.