1/32 Hasegawa F-16 A/C |
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Gallery Article by Mark Sprayberry |
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kit started as the basic 1/32 Hasegawa F-16 A/C Plus kit. I wanted to
model the New York F-16’s as they were the first day of Desert Storm. To
do this, I needed the A style stabilizer's and armament.
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With
some trading and pleading I got my hands on some early style stabilizer's. I
robbed the Revell F-4E kit of its ALQ-119 along with the AGM-65 Maverick
from Kangnam version of the Hasegawa F-5 E/F kit, and my buddy Tim Grissette
supplied me with the GPU-5 gun pod, (thanks Tim). The entire model was also
scribed.
During
construction, I used the Black Box cockpit, some solder wire for pluming,
Evergreen for miscellaneous parts in the wheel wells. After sanding the
seam in the canopy it was then dipped in a mixture of Future Floor Wax and
yellow food coloring to obtain the gold tint of the canopy. The only other
thing that was added was photo etching for the chaf and flare dispensers and
stretched sprue for the static discharge wips. All painting was done in
acrylic and washed with oils. The decals were enlarged from the 48th scale
Super Scale sheet. I know Super Scale did the decals in 32nd Scale and I
spent two years looking for them. I really had a blast doing this F-16 and
my next one will be a block 50 or maybe an Israeli Bird.
Mark Sprayberry
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