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Just minutes after suggesting a Quickboost F-16 ADF tail in 1/72 in TwoMike's thread >>HERE<<, I came across the announcement of a Hasegawa 1/72 F-16 ADF double-kit with markings for Italian special schemes >>HERE<< on Hobby Search (1999.co.jp). The cool thing is that the ADF tails will apparently be included as injected plastic parts. :(

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Here are better pics of the respective schemes:

RED/SILVER SCHEME

BLACK/GREEN SCHEME

Maybe I should suggest a resin 1/72 Viggen family in Mike's thread and see if the trick works twice.... :lol:

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SWEET! I'll have to pick one up, but I can almost guarantee I won't be doing it in Italian markings - It'll be 107 FIG if I can find decals! Niagara Falls rocks!

-Ben (writing in Amherst, NY, just miles from said falls)

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Can the Italian ADFs be used OOB for the US Air National Guard birds?

If Hasegawa did its homework - yes, the AMI birds were ex-ANG and have the IFF antennae, so they should work.

Caveat: the 1999 page Moritz linked to states:

"- New plastic parts: ADF parts for the vertical tail

- Metaruinretto: reinforcing plate parts"

So the presence of the IFF antennae is not confirmed by this. Let's wait and see.

Cheers,

Andre

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Well the bird-slicers are already out on Frame L of their F-16I kit, so I imagine they will just throw that frame in the box. Since those aren't "new parts" they may not have felt the need to specifically mention them.

I wonder if they will do the ADF tail parts as just new left and right root fairing halves? That way they could use the fairing-less vertical stab which is also on Frame L.

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Did a little research & found out that USANG ADF birds also had a searchlight on the side.

http://cybermodeler.com/aircraft/f-16/imag...tro_f-16adf.jpg

Hope Hasegawa gets that right too. But it shouldn't be too difficult to drill one ourselves and stick a little clear glue or something in there.

It could also conceivable be depicted using just a silver decal.

Cheers,

Andre

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<...> So the presence of the IFF antennae is not confirmed by this. Let's wait and see. <...>

Hmm, good point. They did the bird slicers for the Sufa, but just as four antennae stuck onto the fuselage, without the raised panel. Maybe they'll go that route as well. :unsure:

Still, I hope Quickboost will do a conversion tail for the Revell kit, which has the bird slicers out of the box.

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Hmm, good point. They did the bird slicers for the Sufa, but just as four antennae stuck onto the fuselage, without the raised panel. Maybe they'll go that route as well. <_<

Still, I hope Quickboost will do a conversion tail for the Revell kit, which has the bird slicers out of the box.

The sufa L sprue has another set of bird slicer with raised panel, but they aren't the right shape either.

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Best thing about this is that this means that there is a Hasegawa 1/48 ADF in the pipeline - question is which side of Xmas <_<

Did a little research & found out that USANG ADF birds also had a searchlight on the side.

http://cybermodeler.com/aircraft/f-16/imag...tro_f-16adf.jpg

Hope Hasegawa gets that right too. But it shouldn't be too difficult to drill one ourselves and stick a little clear glue or something in there.

On the 1/48 kits, this is already in the molds, and has been since the release of kit V9 - RNoAF Viper. Don't know about 1/72 though as its not my scale

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There is only one difference between Italian and ANG ADF Vipers: Italian one does not use the Sparrow pylons.

I really hope Hasegawa will add all modifications needed since I gave them all measures.

I think only the reinforced plate to the side of the air intake will be missing.

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Just minutes after suggesting a Quickboost F-16 ADF tail in 1/72 in TwoMike's thread >>HERE<<, I came across the announcement of a Hasegawa 1/72 F-16 ADF double-kit with markings for Italian special schemes >>HERE<< on Hobby Search (1999.co.jp). The cool thing is that the ADF tails will apparently be included as injected plastic parts. :yahoo:

10124813.jpg

Here are better pics of the respective schemes:

RED/SILVER SCHEME

BLACK/GREEN SCHEME

Maybe I should suggest a resin 1/72 Viggen family in Mike's thread and see if the trick works twice.... :lol:

Have you seen the 1/72 resin parts for Viggen at dr.pepper resin and Maestro models to be used for the Heller kit?

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Just minutes after suggesting a Quickboost F-16 ADF tail in 1/72 in TwoMike's thread >>HERE<<, I came across the announcement of a Hasegawa 1/72 F-16 ADF double-kit with markings for Italian special schemes >>HERE<< on Hobby Search (1999.co.jp). The cool thing is that the ADF tails will apparently be included as injected plastic parts. :yahoo:

10124813.jpg

Here are better pics of the respective schemes:

RED/SILVER SCHEME

BLACK/GREEN SCHEME

Maybe I should suggest a resin 1/72 Viggen family in Mike's thread and see if the trick works twice.... :lol:

Too bad the kit is Hasegawas and not the light years better Revell kit from ROG.

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Too bad the kit is Hasegawas and not the light years better Revell kit from ROG.

Indeed! :crying2: That's why I hope someone like Quickboost will come to the rescue. I reckon the price for a Quickboost fin + a Revell kit would work out to just about the same price as a Hasegawa kit, give or take a quid.

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Nice,

I hope someone does decals for ANG ADF aircraft. A couple of the Illinois ANG birds had nice markings.

Also some of these aircraft never had the IFF antenna installed, just the mounting plates.

Julien

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Hmm, good point. They did the bird slicers for the Sufa, but just as four antennae stuck onto the fuselage, without the raised panel. Maybe they'll go that route as well. :rofl:

Still, I hope Quickboost will do a conversion tail for the Revell kit, which has the bird slicers out of the box.

IFF antennas for the ADF birds are different than those in the Revell kit, I think unique to the ADFs. There are some that are similar, but they have shorter "blades" than those on the ADF birds.

Best thing about this is that this means that there is a Hasegawa 1/48 ADF in the pipeline - question is which side of Xmas ;)

On the 1/48 kits, this is already in the molds, and has been since the release of kit V9 - RNoAF Viper. Don't know about 1/72 though as its not my scale

Nothing in the 1/72 kits for the spot lights, would have to drill them out and put and MV lens in or something like that.

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Nice,

I hope someone does decals for ANG ADF aircraft. A couple of the Illinois ANG birds had nice markings.

Julien

Superscale has a least a couple, but I agree that we could use some more.

-Hoops

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