1/48 Tamiya F-16C "Green Mountain Boys"

Gallery Article by Pascal Lafrenière on Dec 3 2010

 

This is my first submission on the ARC. The kit is the Tamiya F-16CJ Block 50, with decals from Twobobs "60th anniversary Green Mountain Boys" Decal No 48-139. 

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The VT ANG uses the Block 25 model, but with the modernization CCIP, variants looks almost the same, so I just built the kit OBB and omit the wild weasels pods and AGM-88 missiles.  I used pictures from the 158th wing website to help me chose the weapons.  AIM-120C at wingtips and AIM-9X below the wings.

It was my first experience with Tamiya kits.  I was pleased to see the mounting screws for the vertical stabilizers, everything align perfectly.  The kit has the canopy in both in clear and gold colour.  Like the real airplane, I put the front canopy gold and the aft one clear.

Pascal Lafrenière

Photos and text © by Pascal Lafrenière