Sheet:

Aeromaster 72-040: Israeli F-16C/D

Units: Various

Price

$5.00

Reviewer:

Scott Van Aken

It may be no surprise that there isn't any unit information given with this sheet. In fact, all that you get are the profiles and a general  four-view to help with the camouflage pattern.

The colors given for these planes is Blue, Sand, Green-grey and Brown. No FS colors are given at all and only the sand is stated to match Testors #1706 so that the fin decals don't look too awful. The only other note is that they are in the 'standard' Israeli F-16 camouflage. Now I'm not too much up on Israeli colors, but I do understand that the 'usual' scheme for the Skyhawk, F-4 and so on is not used on these planes. From an interested reader, here are the colors used:  USE ON THE F-16A/B/C/D. TOP SURFACE SAND F.S.33531, BROWN F.S.30219, GREEN F.S.34424 (RAF W.W.II SKY), BOTTOM SURFACE LIGHT GHOST GRAY.

I've also been told that this sheet isn't the most accurate one to use for these planes, but for those of us who already spent the money on it, it will have to do. I've cropped the sheet a bit as there were only extra numbers, insignia and data markings to show.

As for kits, well, Hasegawa does a very nice F-16C in 1/72 that should do well for the single seat version. For the F-16D, there is a single kit that was done with the resin spine. It sold out very quickly so finding it will be a challenge. Here is the preview of that kit. Please don't write to me to tell me the Hasegawa kit has the name wrong as I know!

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