1/48 Hasegawa F-16A 

“Tiger Meet 2003”

by Yves Allewaert

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This is my first contribution to ARC.  I mainly build military aircraft and helicopters.  This is an F-16A MLU of the Belgian Air component with a special color scheme which was applied for the Tiger Meet at Cambrai AFB (France) in 2003.

My main references were my own pictures of Belgian F-16’s which I collected over the past 10 years during several visits to airshows  in Belgium, France, the Netherlands and the UK.

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The model itself is well-known to modellers and is a typical Hasegawa product.  A good model which is re-issued several times always with other decals.  In this case FA-122 of 31 (Tiger) Squadron of the Belgian Air Component.  I added Eduard photo-etched parts (48-391) and an ejection seat from Aires.

Everything fit very well together so no filler was needed.

I airbrushed with gunze (H305) and Xtra-color (X135, X136, X133).

After painting and applying the decals, a wash was used to highlight the panel lines. After that a coat of matt varnish (Gunze H20) and then I used a second technique of weathering: pastels.  This gives the model a more used impression.

I’ll hope you enjoy this model!  I did!

Yves 

Photos and text © by Yves Allewaert