CD48160 - 1/48 F-16 "Viper" - The Early Years

[Stefan buysse]

8 hours ago, KursadA said:

 

Great news! Looking forward to your updates about the build. I am fascinated to see that some of these kits can still be found  around the world.

 

I am equally fascinated to hear that there is a Hoboken (perhaps the original) in Belgium. Based on the photos I saw online it looks much nicer than the Hoboken we have here in the US 🙂

Hi,

 

Yes, I was delighted to have found that one and I moved it to the top of my build schedule.

I stay away from auction sites and I was hoping to find one at a swap meet. The seller was culling his stash and planned to limit his F-16's mostly to Belgian ones.

 

Yes, I think our Hoboken was the original. I'm a bit surprised that an on-line search shows nice pictures. It's an old industrial area that used to have chemical companies.

When I was a kid in the 1970's, Hoboken was in the news quite regularly with the children there having traces of chemicals in their blood.

 

Cheers, Stefan.

[KursadA]

Just now, Stefan buysse said:

When I was a kid in the 1970's, Hoboken was in the news quite regularly with the children there having traces of chemicals in their blood.

 

In our Hoboken, children with all sorts of chemicals in their blood would not be news for anyone 🙂

 

[The Arrowhead]

16 hours ago, Stefan buysse said:

Hi,

 

Yes, I was delighted to have found that one and I moved it to the top of my build schedule.

Good luck with that kit. I personnally ended up keeping the nose only (which remains too bulbous anyhow), rear stabs and ventral strakes (wrong shape) and kitbashing the rest based on a mix-match of Monogram and Hasegawa. 
 

https://www.master194.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=126221

[habu2]

On 3/23/2025 at 10:09 AM, Stefan buysse said:

Hi,

 

When I bought this sheet, I had little hope of ever finding an Otaki kit. 

 

The Otaki kit is a rebox of the original Entex molds, also reboxed by ARII. So all these kits are from the same mold.