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Navy F-16 Whif

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  • From: West Chester,Ohio
Posted by roger_wilco on Wednesday, February 3, 2016 7:18 AM
That is a truly beautiful What-If build. Great work!

"Build what YOU want, the way YOU want, and above all have fun!" - RIP Modeler Al. 

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Posted by Straycat1911 on Wednesday, February 3, 2016 6:33 AM

allan

I love this!  Love seeing What ifs, and always wondered what an F-16 looked like in carrier garb/equipment. You nailed it.  Now I wonder what itd look like in patched up Navy low viz?

 

Better yet, how about if the YF-17 had won the competition and we saw F-18's in Air Force livery? 

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Posted by BrandonK on Tuesday, February 2, 2016 9:15 AM

That's awesome. Nice kit bash, great result.

BK

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Posted by Don Stauffer on Tuesday, February 2, 2016 8:36 AM

Hey, that is neat!

I worked at McDD during that time, and the relationship between MDD and Northrup were interesting, to say the least :-)

Don Stauffer in Minnesota

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Posted by Toshi on Tuesday, February 2, 2016 2:27 AM

Very nice build.  Very cool of you to do something different.

Toshi

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Posted by oortiz10 on Monday, February 1, 2016 11:21 PM

Too cool! 

For years I've been saying that I'm gonna build a WIF Navy F-15 and F-16.

One of these days...one of these days...

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Posted by bvallot on Monday, February 1, 2016 8:50 PM

Very interesting!! =D  Love to see someone go out on a limb and build something different. You never fail to impress Darren. 

Thanks for sharing. =]

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Posted by Darren Roberts on Monday, February 1, 2016 8:40 PM
Thanks all. It was a fun distraction from "serious" modeling.
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Posted by fox on Monday, February 1, 2016 7:32 PM

Very nice build! Toast

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Posted by allan on Monday, February 1, 2016 7:24 PM

I love this!  Love seeing What ifs, and always wondered what an F-16 looked like in carrier garb/equipment. You nailed it.  Now I wonder what itd look like in patched up Navy low viz?

No bucks, no Buck Rogers

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    October 2004
  • From: Northern Virginia
Posted by ygmodeler4 on Monday, February 1, 2016 6:57 PM
You did a really great job (as always), makes me believe it's actually a Navy bird.

-Josiah

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  • From: Naples, FL
Posted by tempestjohnny on Monday, February 1, 2016 6:48 PM
That is really cool.

 

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Navy F-16 Whif
Posted by Darren Roberts on Monday, February 1, 2016 6:14 PM

When the F-16 beat out the F-17 in the USAF's lightweight fighter competition, the Navy was instructed to look at a Navalized F-16 to supplement the expensive F-14 Tomcat. GD teamed up with Vought because of the latter's carrier aircraft experience. Three-four separate designs were considered. The main landing gear was beefed up, A-7 landing gear was used for the front gear, a fuselage plug was put in, the wing chord was increased, and a new radar was to be installed so that the AIM-7 Sparrow could be used. A heftier tailhook was put in place and the anhedral on the horizontal stabs was taken out. One last change was a forward-hinged canopy, ala the F-35. While the design never went anywhere (Northrop teamed with McDD to create the F-18), there were still design schematics and some artists' interpretations of what it would have looked like. One day I'll do a "serious" model with all the changes, but just for fun, I had the old Monogram F-16 and Revell/A-7 that had been parted out, so I thought it would be fun to do a "test" build and see how it would look. I had 1/72 decals for VF-21, so I went with those. Here's the result.

 

 

 

 

 

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