Chicago Bears fans beware! There's a new offensive weapon in the Green Bay Packers football lineup! The F-16G "Packer Attacker"! :tornado:
The story of this humorous model subject started on Facebook in early February 2019. A fellow modeling friend had posted an F-16 model in a blue and yellow early retro 1930's paint scheme. I liked it so much, that I began to wonder about adopting a similar scheme for a future model project. :rolleyes:
Although I liked the yellow on his aircraft, I did not want the blue and began to wonder what I could replace it with? It didn't take long before I realised that a really unique scheme would be the green and yellow colors of the Green Bay Packers football team. After all, I have been living in Wisconsin most of my life and the color scheme was a perfect fit. But now, you must be wondering, Why an F-16 fighter? The 115th Fighter Wing is a unit of the Wisconsin Air National Guard which is based at Truax Field in Madison, Wisconsin and currently flies F-16 Fighting Falcon jets. The model kit I used for this project is the FUJIMI 1/72 scale F-16A/B.
Main aircraft colors, and AIM-9 & AMRAAM missile colors:
Vallejo Model Color # 70.970 Deep Green
Vallejo Model Color # 70.948 Golden Yellow
Testor Model Master acrylic Flat White
The armament is a mixture of spare kit parts and also from 1/72 scale Hasegawa Weapon sets. GBU-10 laser guided bomb under left wing and JDAM bomb under right wing painted normal bomb colors with Testor paints. External underwing fuel drop tanks painted and decaled to look like footballs. Centerline ECM pod and the LANTIRN Targeting & Navigation pods were from a Hasegawa weapons set and painted normal gray colors.
No model kit manufacturer or model aftermarket accessory manufacturer makes NFL themed decals. In order to get the Green Bay decals in the size I needed for this 1/72 scale model, the only available decals I could find came from Amazon and are women's fingernail decals. All other non-Green Bay decals are spares from extra model kits at home.
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Somewhere, Bart Starr is smiling! :thumbsup:
Quote from: The Rat on March 10, 2019, 11:49:47 AM
Somewhere, Bart Starr is smiling! :thumbsup:
Or Vince Lombardi or Curly Lambeau. ;)
Awesome :thumbsup: :thumbsup: :thumbsup: :thumbsup: I'm a Big Packers Fan,this is Super Cool & Well done! What Paints did You use? Have an Idea involving a C-130 & the Packers planned! Thanks for Posting. Dan
Quote from: Cobra on March 10, 2019, 02:47:00 PM
Awesome :thumbsup: :thumbsup: :thumbsup: :thumbsup: I'm a Big Packers Fan,this is Super Cool & Well done! What Paints did You use? Have an Idea involving a C-130 & the Packers planned! Thanks for Posting. Dan
Main aircraft colors, and AIM-9 & AMRAAM missile colors:
Vallejo Model Color # 70.970 Deep Green
Vallejo Model Color # 70.948 Golden Yellow
Testor Model Master acrylic Flat White
Nice one 'dude.
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Not a huge Packers fan (Go Panthers! Keep Pounding!), but they are not a team I hate by any means. Love this build!!
There's a GB in this...
If there was still a William Tell meet I could see someone showing up in one of these!
Quote from: zenrat on March 10, 2019, 04:43:59 PM
There's a GB in this...
A group build? That'd be sweet! All sorts of sports team themed models. Wicked! ;D
Back before our merger with American, USAirways had an Airbus painted in the colors of the NFL teams from our hub cities...we had Panthers, Eagles, Steelers, and Cardinals airplanes. I hate that they dropped those schemes after the merger...but I guess someone realized if we had a Chicago Bears airplane it would keep getting intercepted... ;D
Brilliant. I had no idea what to expect from the topic title but this is brilliant. I love the schemes for the drop tanks!
Quote from: Cobra on March 10, 2019, 02:47:00 PM
Awesome :thumbsup: :thumbsup: :thumbsup: :thumbsup: I'm a Big Packers Fan,this is Super Cool & Well done! What Paints did You use? Have an Idea involving a C-130 & the Packers planned! Thanks for Posting. Dan
What, is the team going to parachute down into the Superbowl? :)
Uh, that's bright! <_<
The drop tanks are cool. :thumbsup:
Certainly works for me and I'm no American Football fan so had no idea what to expect.
Now got me thinking what one would look like in CPFC colours - come on you Eagles ;D
Quote from: zenrat on March 10, 2019, 04:43:59 PM
There's a GB in this...
I've an idea that something similar was suggested for the Poll once ?
And i've an idea it will be suggested again this year... ;D
Quote from: zenrat on March 13, 2019, 04:28:37 AM
And i've an idea it will be suggested again this year... ;D
Yup, just think of all those glorious county and test cricket team colours we could do :angel: Tradition, tradition, tradition none of that one day rubbish ;)
Most glorious!!!!! :bow: :bow: I love it......... the fuel tanks are a hoot. :wub: :wub: :wub:
I bet I know who made that inspirational 1930's F-16. ;D ;D ;D
Air defense systems will soon be in place around Soldier Field in Chicago! Just keep that aircraft north of the Cheddar Curtain!
Quote from: NARSES2 on March 13, 2019, 07:02:21 AM
Quote from: zenrat on March 13, 2019, 04:28:37 AM
And i've an idea it will be suggested again this year... ;D
Yup, just think of all those glorious county and test cricket team colours we could do :angel: Tradition, tradition, tradition none of that one day rubbish ;)
You mean white - with a coloured tail & badge (on the tail, maybe another on the forward fuselage).
Quote from: Old Wombat on March 14, 2019, 01:44:16 AM
Quote from: NARSES2 on March 13, 2019, 07:02:21 AM
Quote from: zenrat on March 13, 2019, 04:28:37 AM
And i've an idea it will be suggested again this year... ;D
Yup, just think of all those glorious county and test cricket team colours we could do :angel: Tradition, tradition, tradition none of that one day rubbish ;)
You mean white - with a coloured tail & badge (on the tail, maybe another on the forward fuselage).
Yup and don't forget the county colours being used as a trimming around the edge of the canopy and the engine inlets, a-la the trimming on ones jumper ;D
Just realised the season starts (or makes an attempt at it) shortly
Hmmmmm. Wonder if I could find some Seattle Seahawk decals somewhere....
Quote from: king of men on March 14, 2019, 08:34:53 PM
Hmmmmm. Wonder if I could find some Seattle Seahawk decals somewhere....
This... :P
Baseball stuff would be easier to find right now. Hmmm.... Chicago Cubs A-10 with baseball bats instead of Mavericks?
Quote from: king of men on March 14, 2019, 08:34:53 PM
Hmmmmm. Wonder if I could find some Seattle Seahawk decals somewhere....
No model kit manufacturer or model accessory manufacturer makes sports themed decals. If you want NFL or something else, you'll have to make/print your own.
Quote from: kerick on March 15, 2019, 03:02:14 PM
Baseball stuff would be easier to find right now. Hmmm.... Chicago Cubs A-10 with baseball bats instead of Mavericks?
I'm already working on a Chicago Bears A-10 "Thunderbear II". ;D
Sports theme nail decals are available online. Some out fit called "Etsy". I'm on my phone but I'll post a link when I get home on the big computer.
Yuuup. Kerick is on the ball. Search in beauty supplies.. I even made a post here once all about it. Waterslides can be had for a multitude of subjects and it's easy to gauge the size by merely looking at your own fingers. ;D For many 1/72 subjects, they'll be about the right size. The only thing to watch for is when they make each one slightly smaller/larger (because our fingernails are different). But even then, that means two sets per, so it makes it easy for roundels.
Yes, I'm aware of sports themed "nail" decals. Go back to Page 1 of this thread and view one of the pics in my opening post.
We're mentioning this for the benefit of those that came afterward, and were asking, not to you. ;D
Here's something for the A-10 Thunderbear II.
https://www.teamstores.com/Chicago-Bears-Fingernail-Tattoos-4-Pack-p/PROTAT-071.htm?gclid=EAIaIQobChMIyqzbqNWF4QIVjrbACh0WkAKWEAQYAiABEgJCUfD_BwE
The more I look the more I find. Amazon, ebay etc.
Here is a link to the specific Seattle Seahawks fingernail tattoos. Yeah, so I'm a homer when it comes to football....
https://www.teamstores.com/Seattle-Seahawks-Fingernail-Tattoos-4-Pack-p/protat-001.htm (https://www.teamstores.com/Seattle-Seahawks-Fingernail-Tattoos-4-Pack-p/protat-001.htm)