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I am wanting to make a 1/72 Aggressor F-16 which are the block 25's and 32's.  I see the general recommendation is the Revell kit, but a lot of these threads predate the Tamiya kit.  I know this is a big mouth, but is there any reasonable kit bash or after market to get a small mouth intake on this kit?  I'd love to mostly build Tamiya for hassle free life, but my Googling isn't turning up much.  

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IIRC, the Revell kit has both intakes and exhausts.  Not sure if it had lightweight landing gear or not.  Don't recall there being any major fit issues with it.

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Certainly the Tamiya is the best 1/72 F-16, but it doesn't provide options for other variants. The Revell kit is actually quite good, nearly as good as Tamiya's, and you get optional parts. They even make a two-seater in several boxings. I built this one a few years ago. The kit decals were Cartograf and they fit perfectly. All the tiger stripes and flames were decals.

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5 hours ago, ESzczesniak said:

I am wanting to make a 1/72 Aggressor F-16 which are the block 25's and 32's.  I see the general recommendation is the Revell kit, but a lot of these threads predate the Tamiya kit.  I know this is a big mouth, but is there any reasonable kit bash or after market to get a small mouth intake on this kit?  I'd love to mostly build Tamiya for hassle free life, but my Googling isn't turning up much.  

 

All Revell F-16C have big and small intakes, the first boxing 04633 has small stabilizers and other gigs for early Block 5/10 variants, I don't remember if its missing the parts for the short tail fairing of the A or has both.

After that Tigermeet and Turkish reboxes do not come with small stabs and gigs for earlier variants.

Cons are the need to rescribe or inscribe C specific panels around the IFR door, lack of bulged MLG doors not sure about wheels, also depending on the batch you will find it bundled with a good amount of flash.

 

With some modelling trickery you can fit Revell small intake and P&W exhaust on Tamiya F-16s and also convert it into a twoseater cause I really doubt Tamiya will ever care about making other F-16 variants in 72

 

Luigi

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