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Gallery Article by Patrick Heeren
on July 21 2003 |
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Belgium Independence Day
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The first Belgian F 16 touched
down in Beauvechain on January 26th, 1979. It was a two seater, the FB 01. Ten
years later this was commemorated by painting that same aircraft in a special
scheme. All the emblems of the BAF units that where using the F 16 where painted
on the white tail.
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The kit is the Italeri F 16A/B.
Painting was done with Model Masters paints and although the dark gey came out
a bit to dark, the overal l
appearance looks fine to me. Decals came from
DACO.
The units emblems where build up of several decals but came out nice with the
use of lots of setting solution. and lots of drying time between each layer. I
suspect the kit was a bit short as I had to shorten the white, red and blue
stripes.
The base was made out of
MDF, painted with a wood stain and a piece of Verlinden Tarmac was glued
to on it. Simple setting but it makes the model look like it belongs there.
Patrick Heeren
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