Subject: Re: Silly Week 08 Submission
From: "Submissions for ARC" <[email-masked]>
To: "NICK WALTON" <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 30 Dec 2007 10:16:46 -0800

Hi,
I just wanted to let you know your article went on ARC today.  Thanks again for sending it in.

Steve Bamford
Aircraft Resource Center
http://www.aircraftresourcecenter.com

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  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: NICK WALTON 
  To: [email-masked] 
  Sent: Wednesday, December 12, 2007 8:40 PM
  Subject: Silly Week 08 Submission

    
  1/72 F-16 with a difference 

  by Nick Walton
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  After losing the Lightweight Fighter Competition to Northrop's F-17 Cobra, General Dynamics modified the YF-16 design to incorporate a larger delta wing optimized for weapons carriage, rather than dogfighting, in hopes that the F-16 would still achieve export sales as a multi-role fighter.

  The resulting F-16A first flew in 1977, and was soon seeing orders from a number of air forces, including the Canadian Armed Forces. 

  In Canadian service the F-16 Viper served primarily in Europe until the early 1990s. This particular CF-16 was based at CFB Baden-Soellingen in 1984. It carries a single NATO B61 tactical nuclear weapon on the left outer pylon, with a AN/ALQ-131 jamming pod on the right outboard, with external fuel tanks on the inboards and AIM-9L sidewinders on the wingtip stations.

  This load was carried by four CF-16s during the October 1984 nuclear scare when East German troops appeared to be beginning a large-scale assault through the Fulda Gap. Fortunately this scare was a false alarm, and with the thawing of East-West relations in the late 1980s, the CF-16 would soon relinquish its nuclear role.

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  This build started with an old Fujimi F-16, built around 1992 that was at the bottom of the old kit box.  I started out thinking of turning it into a 1/48 UCAV, but after finding a set of Rafale wings in the spare parts box that fit very nicely I decided to keep it a 1/72 manned (or 'inhabited' to stay PC) fighter.  The Rafale bings were blended in with Milliput and Squadron Green putty.  The new design was screaming out for a twin-tail, so a cheap AMT F-18 kit donated its tail to the cause.

  The paint scheme is purely 'what if' and was painted entirely with spray cans.  The camo colors are Tamiya Haze Gray and Olive Drab II and Model Master SAC Bomber Green.  The camo was masked with Blu-Tac putty shaped with a section of sprue shaped to a chisel-point.

  Weapons fit is an ECM pod from a Hasegawa Weapons Set and a B-61 nuke from the Testors NATO Weapons Set.  The CAF markings came from Hasegawa and Italeri F-18 kits.  The other markings are from the spare stash.

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