TBF-16B Twin-Boom Falcon (finished page 2)

[Tophe]

Well you drew that one mate so thats the one you should build  .

Uh, thanks for this idea, while this is not the way I work play...
For instance, I have drawn about 6,000 P-38 Lightning what-if derivatives and building them all would require more than 9 lives...
The TBF-16B was also a drawing I made and it happens that I build it now in plastic, not automatically. It was directed by the Revell kit 1/144 having 2 fins, 2 sets of tailplanes, 2 jet exhausts. Oppositely, for making the F-16/HiMat compound, I would need to buy a HiMat kit (MurocModels 1/72, no more available it seems) not just F-16 1/144, or scratchbuild a lot, which I am not good at.

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First sanding done, and I decide it is enough, even if imperfect...
Then starting to glue the remaining parts:

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The rest has been glued a little after:

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This is the final aspect of my TBF-16B model, waiting for paint:

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Now painting the underside. Tamiya XF-23 Light Blue is for me the absolute synonym of "Paint, to use and buy before". The other ones are useless supports received with kits, unavailable without paint and higher price alas.

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Then painting the side above:

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Now the paint is dry, I am just waiting daylight to finish the model (and the flash of my camera works again, good), with black pen for the canopy (having, as usual and on my F-16s also: 2 front eyes, not a rear frame). But, as this is featuring the paint pen (top right of the photo below) I have looked for its name, Black Enamel Pen or else? And great surprise, this name is "Pilot Twin Marker"! Twin like special for a twin-boomer! The name twin is justified because the right side is very small size for details and the left side is medium size for big areas, both ends of the pen are useful, only one at a time. But I do not recommend this model, even if this is the one available in my little town, because it almost cannot color over dry acrylic paint (after a very little area this way, the color stops to come like finished to throw away, even if coloring unpainted plastic starts again the color coming out).

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[ericr]

 

[Wardukw]

Looking sweet Tophe 

[Tophe]

Thanks my friends!

The TBF-16B model is now finished:

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From 4 angles:

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A top view showing the little asymmetry of this model:
- starboard side: little fin (turned into tailplane) big jet exhaust
- port side: big fin (turned into tailplane) short jet exhaust
The kit made for 2 true versions has turned into a single whif using all parts instead of half :

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[Joe C-P]

Funky! 

[Tophe]

Thanks!

And this time I did not buy 2 copies of the kit to build a zwilling but I can create one as picture with mirror copy:

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[Tophe]

Uh, do you prefer triplex boom than twin-boom? No problem:

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