New Project: F-16 with parts from the ususal F-104 (ever 1/48)

[G.Marcat]

The Dr Frankestein is working.

The two kits before the surgery:




Cutting a little here and there...






and this photo give an idea of the way taken from the my surgery:
(the tail of kit is hold together with tape)

[Sauragnmon]

I'll confess, I think you might have cut too far back on the fuselage - you should have kept the rise to help you mate the 104 and 16 fuselage sections together, there's a rather big hump now, which could prove to be problematic to fix.  Looking forward to seeing how you do it though.  Keep up the good work!

[John Howling Mouse]

You have phenomenal skills.  Incredible to watch you cut and piece together all these parts.

[G.Marcat]

You have phenomenal skills.  Incredible to watch you cut and piece together all these parts.

You call it skill, I call it "drug": honestly I can't build normal kits... I have a little bunch of unfinished kits here. I started them but after few days I do not find interest to complete them.
When I have restarted to do what ifs I'm finally able again  to complete a kit.

I'll confess, I think you might have cut too far back on the fuselage - you should have kept the rise to help you mate the 104 and 16 fuselage sections together, there's a rather big hump now, which could prove to be problematic to fix.  Looking forward to seeing how you do it though.  Keep up the good work!

The my target is of to copy the spine profile of the last versions of the Mig-29 (or even the SU-27):




But now start the hard part of the conversion:  to give at the F-16-104 a spine that look "right".

[Sauragnmon]

I might suggest for your work on the spine, potentially a styrene framing and then putty the whole thing to get the smooth blendification, that might help a lot more with the blending of the curves together.

I agree, G - I have problems with doing a full out standard kit - I lose inspiration and problems and just need to keep my brain juices pumping in order to get the process going entirely in my flow.  You're doing a good job though overall, keep it up man.

[Eddie M.]

You have phenomenal skills.  Incredible to watch you cut and piece together all these parts.

I agree 100%! It reminds of when I was a daring young lad....

[G.Marcat]

Found a solution for the spine....
used the spine from the Monogram F-18 Hornet that was in the spares box as a remainder of the pieces used to build the F/A 818.

This is the result:

[Sauragnmon]

That's a pretty good solution right there, nice smooth blend, and if you use a little strip of styrene you should be able to get that spine rail down and then blended along into the hump, and the small gap should have enough space to blend the joins together smoothly at the lower ends of the new spine.

[G.Marcat]

Today done some work, finally glued the tail: it's not the tail made for it, that tail previously photographed.
I added to the monster the tail saved building of the F-4 Phantom JASDF.
The Phantom tail has been adapted to accept the T-tail from F-104 then glued.

The air intake is glued in place but I will add to the center of the intake a CONE as in the F-104's air intakes at the purpose of to change the appearance of the zone to make that area different from a stock F-16's intake.

Some additional work is in foresee.

[Brian da Basher]

You're making excellent progress and I'm very impressed by your creative vision and skill at finding just the right parts to bring it to life!

Brian da Basher

[batmancustoms]

awesome

[Slerski]

Really nice... F-4 tail is a good idea. 

[ChernayaAkula]

Good golly!

[Sauragnmon]

Absolute monster, man - she's coming along real well though, and looks quite overall awesome.  Looking forward to seeing the whole progress.

[Taiidantomcat]

Awe-inspiring