Here
are some photos of my latest
project, the Kinetic 1/48 F-16I Sufa. The kit itself is quite good and
accurate but not without shortcomings
(incorrect spine, wrong shapes of some of the antennas and more).
In
order to overcome this problem, I used the Isracast Correction kit for
the Kinetic Sufa ( # IC-48030) and as main reference I used Ra'anan Weiss excellent
book F-16I Sufa in IAF Service - 2009 Edition.
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In the armament department
I choose Rafael Spice and GBU-31 JDAM because it's a combination of
bombs that are not usually seen on the Sufa in day to day time, but it is
possible to arm the plane with them and it makes the model a little
bit more unique. I also used the Isracast 600 gallon fuel tank (cat.#
IC-48004) and Python 4 missiles from Skunk Models IDF weapon set # 1
for the distinctive IAF weapon load (the Spice bomb is also from that
set).
The Kinetic kit is
not an easy one to build, but the final result is very rewarding. Thanks for
looking and enjoy the photos.
Ido Barnea
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