Viper Group Build 2010-2011

hey, Helo, you got enough Vipers there?! haha nice stash!

STDFD, Can I make a suggestion? Alot of Group Builds have pictures of teh completed build on one of the first few posts. Do you think you can put the groups builds on the first post once they are completed?

I am liking the renewed activity, As reward here are some pics I took of various F-16 during Airshow to get your creative juices flowing! 

OWL

Owl: Great pics! Thanks for those. My plan is to fully display the finished pics on the front page as they are completed. This is my first GB hosting ......so you might have to bear with me.

Helo: VERY nice stash. I love to see pics like that cause I can show my wife to show her my stash isn't that bad (of course she doesn't agree, but she doesn't complain too much either.)

Please keep the pics comming. I had to pack my builds up for the next 24 hours while I go to work. On another note the build room/man cave is getting ready to be put together here in the next few weeks!

Travis

STFD637

Owl: Great pics! Thanks for those. My plan is to fully display the finished pics on the front page as they are completed. This is my first GB hosting ......so you might have to bear with me.

Oh I understand, please don't take my suggestions as criticism.  You are doing a pretty swell job for your first GB hosting!

OWL

I have the cockpits installed on the four Hasegawa F-16's ;

I'll glue the fuselage halves next , along with the wings , tail fin and tail planes .

                                     John .

Helo H-34

I have the cockpits installed on the four Hasegawa F-16's ;

I'll glue the fuselage halves next , along with the wings , tail fin and tail planes .

                                     John .

 

that is quite the assembly line you have going there, but also a lot of nose weight. Are the Hasegawa kits balanced differently? When I built the Academy F-16, there was no problem at all getting the nose gear to sit down. DO the Hasegawa kits really need all that nose weight??

OWL

Hi Owl ,

Hasegawa don't mention anything about putting in any nose weight , so I was looking at italeri's F-16 instruction sheet and they suggest about 10 grams . The larger sinker behind the cockpit is about 5 grams and the smaller ones in the nose are probably about 1 gram each . I thought I might just add some to be on the safe side .

                             John .

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I'm glad you were able to repair that broken wing Travis , your build is coming along nicely .

I just went through all 8 pages of this GB and saw Callsignowl's amazing finished F-16 , I was wondering if those Ohio decals are available in 1/72 scale .

I have built the A-7D Corsair II with similar markings and I would I love to add an F-16C .

If all goes well with my four current F-16 builds , perhaps I might add an ANG F-16C and I would really love to have a go at an Israeli F-16 as well ;

Either an F-16D Barak or the F-16I Sufa and if I can find those ANG markings in 1/72 scale a F-16C [Ohio]

Hopfully later today some more WIP pics ;

                                 John .

TWOBOBS Decals sheet #72-077 Buckeye Vipers  go to http://twobobs.net  click on 1/72 decals page 3.

Thank's for the link on the decals Lewbud , I'll check out twobobs site and pick some up .

Got the fuselage halves together , drop tanks and bombs are all glued up as well

                                       John .

okay so good news since Im just about done with my fw-190 and I had free time this past weekend I started my 1:32 f-16 as of right now i have 80% of the engine put together, it just needs painting. and i have some of the lower fuslage and back landing gear done.

but anyway I will get picks up asap. and get builds so far

Hi Travis, I'd like to do the Tamiya 1/32 F-16 Block 50 as well, saw someone else going to attempt that bird. I prolly will chuck in heaps of AM (as I tend to do with 1/32 scale) and it will most likely be mid-year sometime before I can afford that rather pricey kit.

Cheers

Hi Travis,

My offering is nowhere near as impressive as Casper's, but could I go in with a Hasegawa 1/72 F-16N please?

Thanks heaps

Tony

Casper and Taxtp: You guys are more than welcome. I will update the page by tomorrow to add you and whoever else I might have missed being away from here for a bit.

Casper I promise my f-117 will show up on your GB soon!

Can't wait to see the big scale kits done up!

I have been busy moving my daughter from one room to another. The bonus of all this none model painting is I now have my own hobby room/man cave. (pics to come). This will mean I can actually get some work done. Also it is just in time for the Florida heat and humidity to come. Yes we have had 3 days of 80+ with 50% humidity (sorry for those of you living in the northern ice area).

I hope to see some more pics. I think I am officially in 5 different GBs now and behind on all due to home projects. Time to catch up and finish some stuff.

Happy building!

Travis

Casper, Im doing the same build. so we can help each other out on this build. i've been looking and havent found any am parts for the tam 1/32 ive seen stuff for the HAS f-16 kit. but the tam ki has alot of am and alot of photo etched stuff as well

as of right now im test fitting the engine and painting it today

edit: never mind i found some pe for the interior http://www.internethobbies.com/edu-32523.html

Hey there Chewy, yeah I'm going all out on the AM for this. I'll be spending about US$400 (lucky the Aussie $ is virtually the same rate now!) including the kit. My wish list includes; Aires Cockpit, Aires Wheel bays, Aires exhaust nozzle, Wheeliant weighted Goodyear tyres, CMK armament kit and the Big Ed set. There's a bit of doubling up in all that but I like to have a good choice of PE or resin for this type of project. My F-104 had hybrid sections that used up to 4 different AM components for some details.

Cheers

damn, Casper. 400 dollars?!?!  What do you do for a living to be able drop all that $$$ on a model kit??? 

Owl, I'm a PhD student and also teach/lecture at the local university. I'm lucky, in Australia graduate students are paid for extra work they do, a lot of other countries work is expected and usually gratis! Both the scholarship and teaching pays nicely and not having any kids and a cheap mortgage means I have a bit of disposable income. But $400 is pushing it and I won't be letting my partner know how much I dropped!

Cheers

Hi Travis ,

 My apologies as I will have to withdraw from your Viper GB ;

Some family health issue's have come up .

Good luck to everyone else with their builds .

Kind regards ,

                                     John .

John,

I am sorry to here about your family health issues. I hope all turns out well. Of course there is no problem. The whole point of these GBs is to have fun, share building experiences, and get ideas.

Family always comes first with me! Take care of yours. Best of luck.

Travis

Finally with the man cave finished I have got some work done on the Netz. I finished up with the weapons (2 Python AA missles, 2 Sidewinders, and some LGBs to finish it off.)

I also started with the upper camo scheme, still needs some fine tuning.

Hope everyone else is moving along on there builds. Seems like we all have our hands full with GB (lots of similar names on all the different GBs)

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Comments welcome as always. This is my first Isreali paint scheme and I have to say I really like the colors.

Travis

Hello,

Looking to join up, just purchased Kinetic's 1/48 F-16E Block 60 Single-Seater Desert

Still waiting for it to show up.  The F-16 is one of my favorite planes and this will be the first time building one.

Goodness: Welcome. Can't wait to see this kit. I have been looking at the 1/72 scale kits. I haven't heard very much about them....but they are the only Advance "block50+" Vipers. I will add you to the list.

Travis

Can someone explain the hole Block thing to me?  Like I am building a F-16E Block 60 and i have allways woundered what the hole block thing is.  So if someone could explain that would be awsome or point me in the direction if its been brought up allready.

Thanks,

The different Block variants of the Viper can be very confusing.  Here are a couple links that may help.  It is usually some kind of upgrade/change made to the original design.

http://www.cybermodeler.com/aircraft/f-16/viperversions.shtml

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F-16_Fighting_Falcon

Oh yeah, I am very much looking forward to starting my Viper for this GB.

Travis, nice job on the camo!   I like that scheme too.  The ordinance looks great too!  Keep up the good work sir!

macattack80

The different Block variants of the Viper can be very confusing.  Here are a couple links that may help.  It is usually some kind of upgrade/change made to the original design.

http://www.cybermodeler.com/aircraft/f-16/viperversions.shtml

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F-16_Fighting_Falcon

Perfect.  Thank you!!!!  That Cybermodeler website was exactly what i was looking for.  Thank you very much.  Let me know if i can be of any help to you in the future.

Goodness180

Perfect.  Thank you!!!!  That Cybermodeler website was exactly what i was looking for.  Thank you very much.  Let me know if i can be of any help to you in the future.

No problem at all.  Cybermodeler is a great resource.  Check out http://www.aircraftresourcecenter.com/ too.  Another great site.  They don't have the same info as cybermodeler but they have plenty of walkaround photos.

All right I have some time off and actual down time recently so I focused completely on the Netz. did some fine touch up on the camo and started to add the landing gear.

I am trying some "new" things for me:

I am planning on Tone the plane down in the end with a thinned mist of sky grey to get more scale effect. I have read about this an am interested in seeing how it looks. I will be keeping my fingers crossed! I have the panel wash down now and will use it for this kit as well. I also plan on airbrushing some thinned Tamiya smoke in some areas (another thing picked up from FSM).

I used the grey mist effect on the ordanance and it looks better than just the semigloss look they had. 

As always any feedback is appreciated and welcome!

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Thanks again. Once this kit is finished I will be moving on to my F-18A for the Hornets Nest GB!

Travis

Hi Travis, I think I may have to scale down my build. Instead I'd like to do the Tamiya 1/48 Block 50 with AM. Will cost about a third of what the 1/32 was going to cost. Just found out one of our chihuahuas has cancer and we may have to look at chemo. That will take a bit out of the stash budget.

Cheers

Casper: No prob. I completely understand. I will change the feed accordingly!.

On another note, I was pretty happu with my paint job. I went to add the Gloss coat from a "rattle can" and for some strange reason I had a strange build up yellow on one area of one of the wings. I was able to mend it, but needless to say I was fumming! I also got the initial panel wash done. Hope to have some more pics tonight or tomorrow.

Travis

Washed my kit parts today.  So hopefully tomarrow I will get them Primed and post some photos when i do a test fit.