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1/48 Israeli  F-16I "SUFA"

by Avshi Sagi

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The F-16i is the new fighter jet of the Israeli air force. It's Hebrew name is "Sufa", which means: Storm. In order to build this model as correctly as I could, I first bought the "F-16i Sufa"  book of Ra'anan Weiss from IsraDecal publication. This book contains a huge selection of walk around pictures that are essential for that project. It also contains all the information about painting (together with the decal sheet). I don’t believe I could have built this model without this book.  This f-16 is for sure, different from any other old and well knows F-16s! 

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Some  after market kits purchase for that model :

  • 1.    Israeli F-16I conversion by Isracast

  • 2.    600 gallon fuel tanks by Isracast

  • 3.    air to air missile python 4 by paragon design

  • 4.    Jdam bombs, targeting and navigating pods from Hasegawa

  • 5.    seats from Aires

  • 6.    decal sheet from IsraDecal

For painting I used the model master color (the regular Israeli colors). The wash and weathering were made using Tamiya smoke X-19 and CMK weathering powders. Thanks for my friend Netan'el Der'ee for taking this pictures.

Avshi

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Photos and text © by Avshi Sagi 

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