Here are the
four models for the celebration of 75 years of the Royal Netherlands Air Force.
Each F-16 Squadron (except 323 Squadron) brought a F-16 back into retro
colours for a demonstration team. 306 Squadron decided to do a all silver
F-16, in the colours of the old F-84E's with which this squadron flew in
the early fifties. 311 squadron choose to honour the Royal Netherlands
East Indies Airforce by doing a F-16 in the colours of a Brewster Buffalo
during the 2nd world war (1942). 312 Squadron went back to the early days
of aviation in the Netherlands by giving their F-16 the colours of a
Fokker DVII from the early twenties. 322 squadron finaly did their F-16 in
the famous colours of the Fokker DXXI from 1940, including the three white
mice.
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The four planes gave
a stunning demonstration during both days of the open house at Deelen airbase,
after the open house all four were sent to Woensdrecht Airbase for a complete
overhaul, including a repaint to their original colours. Also a parahouse was
added.
The kits used for
these four models are from Fujumi. Personally I think these are some of the worst
F-16 kits around, I have a few of them left, but I don't think I'm going to
build them ever again. The decals came from several sources, the detail level
isn't that high, but I had the idea and wanted to build them pretty quick to
have them ready in time! The overall look is very nice though.
In Fact, there was
only one F-16 in special colours during the celebration of 75 years Royal Dutch
Airforce, there was also a Fokker F-27 Troopship and two NF-5A's in almost
the same special scheme. Those models will be built by me in the next couple of
months and I hope I can put them online here around June, in time for the
celebration of 95 Years of Royal Dutch Air Force!
I hope you all like
this little article about a idea I had a few weeks ago!
Cheers!
Niels
Lelystad, The Netherlands.
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