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F-16A to C conversion


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Quick & dirty:

- F-16C style vertical tail with the larger base island

- F110 exhaust

- MCIS "Big Mouth" intake

- late style main wheels

- landing lights on the nosewheel door, removal of the landing lights on the MLG struts

- flapmounted RWR beer cans

- if your F-16A kit is pre-block 15: larger horizontal tails

- C-style gun muzzle panel

- new instrument panel

- rescribing the upper rear fuselage around the base island - some panels differ between the A and C

HTH,

Andre

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Quick & dirty:

- MCIS "Big Mouth" intake

Depending on what serial because only from somewhere late in the 85-xxxx serial the NSI intake was changed into the MCIS

- late style main wheels

Isn't this only for the later block 40-50 variants?

HTH,

Andre

Greetings!

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Depending on what serial because only from somewhere late in the 85-xxxx serial the NSI intake was changed into the MCIS

All Arctic Bandits use the MCID, AFAIK.

Isn't this only for the later block 40-50 variants?

Hasegawa's kit has early F-16A style main wheels.

These differ from the later style of wheels used by the Block 30, even though these do not feature the larger diameter heavyweight wheels / bulged MLG covers of the Block 40 and beyond.

HTH,

Andre

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I agree - even "for cheap" is going to end up costing you a lot of money to make a C out of what started out as an FSD prototype kit. The Hasegawa kit is almost 35 years old (!!!!), and came out well before the F-16 even went into service.

You'd be *much* happier, and probably spend less money overall, by getting the outstanding Tamiya 1/32 F-16C kit.

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Unfortunately, you can't really get there from the Tamiya kit as it comes in the box. The Arctic Bandits were Block 30s. The Tamiya kits are a Block 32 and a Block 50. The Block 32 kit has the wrong engine and intake, but the right gear and gear doors, while the Block 50 kit has the right intake and engine, but wrong gear and doors. The Tamiya kit is pretty expensive already, and you'll need to spend even more to get the missing parts, unless you can find someone to swap parts with.

The cheapest option may be to get a Hasegawa A+/C kit and just get a MCID intake. Still much less than a Tamiya kit, which not everyone has money for.

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would the A to AM mod be any easier?

Yes.

Add IFF chicken slicers in front of the cockpit, upper fuselage / wing root strengthening band aids, parabrake housing extension, use a Block 50 instrument panel and change the landing gear like in my earlier post. Check if the specific aircraft has the LAU-129 rails on the wing tips instead of the 16S210 launcher and add if necessary.

HTH,

Andre

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Most certainly an MLu would be easier. You could even perform about the same amount of work in different areas to do an ADF (tail base bulges, nose searchlight, bird slicers). There are also plenty of cool schemes worn by Block 5 to 15 model F-16s.

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