fistius Posted December 16, 2018 Share Posted December 16, 2018 (edited) Hi all, a novice question on the F-16, I have the Skunkmodel 1/48 F-16XL, in terms of dressing up the cockpit and exhaust, which variant of the Falcon would be best to use aftermarket from? Cheers, Chris Edited December 16, 2018 by fistius Quote Link to post Share on other sites
jenshb Posted December 16, 2018 Share Posted December 16, 2018 The #1 F-16XL would have an F-16A cockpit, but the resin cockpits I see at Hannant's website are F-16AM standards (which are essentially F-16C - the main difference is the instrument panel). You may be able to combine the resin F-16AM cockpit with Eduard photoetch for the Hasegawa kit. As for the exhaust, Aires makes a nice one that should fit the Kinetic kit. The nozzle and afterburner are separate and can be added after the model is finished. The doughnut panel fixes to the fuselage and can befaired in with filler and some sanding. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
fistius Posted December 16, 2018 Author Share Posted December 16, 2018 Awesome, thank you! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
habu2 Posted December 16, 2018 Share Posted December 16, 2018 According to Keith Svendsen’s article in IPMS Quarterly (Fall 1984) the cockits in #1 and #2 were essentially the same as a production A/B, respectively. Given the time frame for first flight I would assume a Block 15 layout. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
habu2 Posted December 16, 2018 Share Posted December 16, 2018 Are you building the XL as flown or as a what-if? If the latter then the “production/whif” jets would have had the later C/D style instruments. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
fistius Posted December 16, 2018 Author Share Posted December 16, 2018 Building it as a flown, in the two tone grey, blue spine and red, white and blue tail. Cheers, Chris Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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