F-16C² or worse (finished page 1)

Tophe · June 26, 2020, 03:13:59 AM

I have ordered one more F-16 Fighting Falcon 1/144th: the Revell one with 2 fins (to chose one from, normally). My project is to build a very short model with box-tail (like TT-tail). I will remove the air intake under the fuselage for sure, but I don't know yet if this will be a glider (GF-16C²) or crazier: an asymmetric jetplane with jet on the port wingtip (AF-16C²).

I have been informed by the mail post that the parcel should arrive today, but it is not here yet. $:-\$

Tophe · June 26, 2020, 06:50:20 AM

A carton box arrived in my mailbox, but my wife's decontamination process will make it available tomorrow only...

Tophe · June 27, 2020, 12:07:06 AM

I have opened the carton box received yesterday, and... it is not at all the F-16 Revell that I ordered first, but the F-104 I ordered 2 weeks later...

Tophe · July 16, 2020, 08:11:34 AM

Today, coming back from holidays in the mountain, I found the Revell F-16C 1/144th in my mailbox, I will make a photograph tomorrow, and maybe start the build immediately, we will see. (And I will check the new threads on this forum, including a promising P-388 pusher it seems...).

Tophe · July 17, 2020, 05:34:31 AM

Here is the kit content:

There are 2 fins (good! as expected! for the scheduled box tail.
But there are also 4 tailplanes (I had forgotten, as I already built this kit) and either this will be a canard 3-surface or else: a complicated tail (box + external at mid height)...

$:-\$

nighthunter · July 17, 2020, 06:52:40 AM

You know what to do with the parts you don't want, my friend, lol

Tophe · July 17, 2020, 07:18:01 AM

Yes, and I think you have not received (yet) also the Chinese weapons from https://www.whatifmodellers.com/index.php?topic=47877.0
They will be sent next month.

nighthunter · July 17, 2020, 08:38:27 AM

Quote from: Tophe on July 17, 2020, 07:18:01 AM
Yes, and I think you have not received (yet) also the Chinese weapons from https://www.whatifmodellers.com/index.php?topic=47877.0
They will be sent next month.

No worries

Tophe · July 18, 2020, 11:56:02 AM

Among the 109 parts, I planned to use less than 15...

The second jet nozzle seems interesting too, and I plan to make it a twin-engined F-16, maybe at wing-tips to be different from the F-16L at Grand Theft Auto. (And the extra tailplanes could be winglets on the jets).

Then building started immediately:

Tophe · July 19, 2020, 02:14:27 AM

The TeF-16C² (twin-engined F-16C²) is taking shape (the jets are not glued yet):

Tophe · July 20, 2020, 04:25:34 AM

Building the TeF-16C² is now finished:

(this is not a "normal" F-16, sorry)

$:-\$

ericr · July 20, 2020, 05:34:02 AM

incredible, as usual with your imagination

NARSES2 · July 20, 2020, 06:48:39 AM

Oh, I do like that Tophe

Tophe · July 21, 2020, 12:09:35 AM

Thanks a lot!

Yesterday evening I painted the underside, but I was ashamed to show it (so imperfect, never to be seen again):

Now I have painted the side above:

Tophe · July 22, 2020, 09:56:42 PM

The TeF-16C² model is now finished!

On a more horizontal view appear the air intakes and is featured the box tail:

A low profile view shows the wheel I have been forced to use to keep a balance:

And here are the 4 normal oblique views: