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  1. Thadeus
    Niels, I totally agree about the housing. It became quite apparent once I tried to fit the 1/72 Revell longer tail base to the Hasegawa F-16. And frankly, all I'm saying is the parachute looks similar between both heavier F-16C/D of Turkish and Polish Air Forces, and the supposed lighter F-16A of the Tawian Air Force. The RNLAF Vipers have a different design than ROCAF F-16. And the RNLAF as well as ROCAF Vipers both have the smaller dragchute housing. It might even be so the Tawianese parachute is only similar but smaller in diameter to fit in the housing that they have - if the ROC
  2. Thadeus started following Doing different scales?, F-16 Dragchutes, Su-17M4 / Su-22M4 Modelsvit and 3 others
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    Turkish F-16 parachute looks pretty similar in design to the Polish F-16 parachute. But it's not the exact same design. So this might explain the difference in https://www.google.com/url?sa=i&url=https%3A%2F%2Fairfighters.com%2Fphoto%2F281785%2FL%2FPoland-Air-Force%2FGeneral-Dynamics-F-16D-Fighting-Falcon%2F4083%2F&psig=AOvVaw0YJgPP_Picmm3Z_-n821c4&ust=1712781785920000&source=images&cd=vfe&opi=89978449&ved=0CBIQjRxqFwoTCNCg8Mj_tYUDFQAAAAAdAAAAABAE OTOH the ROCAF F-16 one looks similar to both of these, and not to the Belgian F-16. It might be
  4. Thadeus
    Oh this is great. Can't wait. Shame no Polish AF decals OOB, but there are a few sheets out there. We recently got a new paint scheme. https://www.super-hobby.com/products/Su-22-Boar-Mouth-And-Bonus-Shark-Mouth-Tanks-57469434.html
  5. Thadeus
    Thank You. I'm having a little bit of hard time keeping my focus here. I believe I was spoiled by building 1/48 Hornets. First thing to do is to cut the wings up. I have a way to do it with Hasegawa Super Hornets. Academy is a little bit different, more in line with the Revell Super Hornet kits. Both 1/72 and 1/48. In some instances, the cuts are easier here than on a Hasegawa SH. Especially cutting out the small middle airfoil separate from the trailing edge flap. Since I was at it I cut out the elevators from their support. I
  6. Thadeus
    Lovelly work on the cockpit. It's gonna be a great build.
  7. Thadeus
    Hi there! After completing my previous multibuild, a somewhat easy uncomplicated build, I wanted to build something more complicated. A double build of 1/48 F-16's came to my mind. I bought the kits, some extras and I was about to go to town and unwrap the boxes. But I had a terryfing thought. I haven't built a Hasegawa 1/72 Super Hornet in almost 10 years! My gosh! One of my favourite kits of all time, probably the best 1/72 Hornet (legacy or super) allround. And the last one I built was that one: built for the lovelly Hornet's nest GB here on ARC.
  8. Thadeus
    Nice start. Great motivational pics for the build. I was looking at the Academy Hog for a while if I ever was to build a Hog in 1/48. The Hobby 2000 boxings are indeed much cooler.
  9. Thadeus
    Oh... I kind of forgot to update this thread. Academy Sabre, once I closed the fuselage was a pretty straightforward build. I did fill some gaps by the cockpit, since they were quite big. In hindsight I should've just added a plasticard piece. Some sanding was required. Most of the work was around the nose of the aircraft. One thing I managed to screw up were the slats. As You can see, I glued them wrong. Fun fact, this was my "fix", as I thought my previous position was off. Here's the MiG-17PF and F-86E sprayed silve
  10. Thadeus
    I don't think it comes down only to scales. There are strict prop modelers, AFV ones and so on. I for one am mostly a 1/72 jet guy. It's nice to see how different aircraft look next to eachother. Both because of the size comparison but also features. Placing an F-5e next to an Su-24 puts things into perspective. But from time to time, its fun to build something slightly different. So I go into 1/48 and even once wandered into 1/32. Again, a 1/48 F-16 and 1/72 Su-34 are quite similar in size. It all comes down to the subject for me. If it's Hornets, I'll build 1/700 to 1/32 provided I can
  11. Thadeus
    As I wrote earlier - I managed to finish the Hasegawa model. After more than 67 hours of work over 2.5 years. Of course I overdid the weathering. The streaks on the upper wing surfaces should either not be there for my timeframe, or should be much lighter, assuming I depicted the jet mid-cruise. I am very happy with the grays however. They look right to me. A tiny bit too blue perhaps. I'll make some comparison shots in the future. This is as close to natural look of the model as I could achieve. On a sunny day in my kitchen.
  12. Thadeus
    Thanks Holmes! So. I actually finished the kit. But with some personal stuff happening I wasn't really into posting things or frankly keeping track of every step. So... the tail fins almost cost me my sanity. See, apart from all the troubles with checkerboards, red and yellow trims, I knew there would be trouble with opacity of the CVW tailcode. After a few not so brilliant ideas I came up with something I figured will be easier. I will make a white background for my decals. I copied decals on my printer, and masked around the masking tape. I thought of cutting the shap
  13. Thadeus
    That's looking like a very nice Tomcat.
  14. Thadeus
    Looking very good!
  15. Thadeus
    Oh, I've seen that one. There was this bald guy that controlled it with his thought. Or was that dirty Harry in a russian jet? It must have been on tv, so it must have been real. Restoration is looking pretty good.
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    Not well thought of... I guess this could be my idea of a theme for this build. I have dusted off my Inkscape skills and done a few of proper checkerboard decals, plus some mesh decals for the gun gas vents. So all I need is a printer. And decal paper. So armed with that I tried to remove the decals. Not a lot of success. This gave me the idea - Since I will probably have to strip paint and repaint it, I might try and fix the mess I have. I quickly cut a few 1.2 mm strips of paint and attempted to mask the outermost rows of squares. While I was at it I pain
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