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Best kit or kit mix for a 1/72 scale YF-16?


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Hi all, I have the Hasegawa YF-16/ CCV kit but other than the smaller forward fuselage that may or may not be correct, everything else is very basic.

What would be a good kit to complete an early bird?

Kursad over at Caracal Decals is about to release an awesome 1/72 decal sheet for the early Vipers and I would like to put it to good use.

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The Hasegawa kit may well be basic, but it captures the shapes and features of the YF-16 well.  It will need help in the detail department however, so an Aires exhaust, an Escapac seat will go a long way to making things look better.

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16 minutes ago, jenshb said:

The Hasegawa kit may well be basic, but it captures the shapes and features of the YF-16 well.  It will need help in the detail department however, so an Aires exhaust, an Escapac seat will go a long way to making things look better.

....not to mention the air intake and landing gear bay.

I wonder if replacing the the whole cockpit area would work.

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The Hasegawa kit (and the many Academy reboxings) is the only kit that captures the YF shape correctly.
 

btw the upcoming Caracal sheet is 1/48. A 72nd version will most likely follow in a few months. 
 

For a 1/48 YF-16 the most accurate shape kit would be the old Entex /Otaki /ARII boxings as a starting point. 
 

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