Japanese F/A-16XL "Taifun" (Typhoon) anti-shipping aircraft

[seadude]

About the second and third pictures further above in my earlier Post # 2 -
The 2nd pic is of the real Japanese F-2B prototype aircraft. The 3rd pic is a model of the same prototype.
After digging around the Net a bit more, especially on the F-16.net website, the Japanese F-2A and F-2B prototypes were the only aircraft to wear the overall blue color on top and the overall white color on the bottom. At least as far as I've been able to determine.
As far as the blue color is concerned, I did some more digging on the Scalemates website. Hasegawa made 1 or 2 model kits of the F-2 prototype aircraft. According to the instructions for the model, they call the blue color for the top of the aircraft "Shallow Ocean Blue".
https://www.scalemates.com/kits/hasegawa-07509-mitsubishi-f-2b-prototype-no4--1410505
So I think what I've suggested for "light blue" paints might work out ok.
So the F-16XL I'm building won't be an operational squadron aircraft. Instead, it'll be built and painted to be a prototype for evaluation by the Japanese Air Self Defense Force.

[seadude]

And another update.
The majority of details like armament, landing gear, gear doors, etc. are done.
To the best of my understanding, the blue colored missiles are supposed to be inert rounds for training or evaluation purposes on the aircraft.
I didn't want to paint the missiles white or light gray otherwise they'd blend in and get "hidden" with the underside of the aircraft and they might be difficult to see by people.
I sprayed the underside of the aircraft with TAMIYA fine white surface primer. But there are some nooks and crannies where the primer couldn't get at, so I'll have to brush paint those areas by hand. The top of the aircraft fuselage will eventually be brush painted blue.