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Holger Kranich
Hi Efthymios,
nice, very nice work 🙂 but why do you leave the sprues on the static dischargers? Do you hope the dont break?

Efthymios Chatzopoulos
First of all thanks for your comment. I am afraid not to break them. I know its funny to see them 😄

Holger Kranich
🙂 Yes, looks funny!
But that way i´d be afraid of breaking them all together in one accident😢 Its worth to think about it, i have a Kinetic Viper in stash. How do you like the kit? I see you are a lucky guy and this is one of the newer Kinetic F-16`s without the "hanging" nose😢

Efthymios Chatzopoulos
F-16 its my favorite kit! Check my other photo album and you will see another 4 completed F-16 (2 from Hasegawa, 1 Italeri and 1 from Kinetic).
But this is my first painted with airbrush (I very very new to this... sport 🤔)
I saw from your stash that you have an edward 1:48 and a revell 1:72
I think Edward Kit must be the best. Am I right?

Holger Kranich
The Eduard kit contains Kinetic sprues. But with some nice resin and photoetch goodies and a cool decalsheet plus masks 🙂
So, eduard´s Vipers are quite cool!

Efthymios Chatzopoulos
Thank you Michael. This is my first ever build using airblush. I think it looks nice at the moment. 🙂

Christian Ristits
Looks great, especially for your first airbrush-work! Congrats! Which colours do you use?

Efthymios Chatzopoulos
Hey Christian, thanks for your comment. For the upper camouflage I use Mr Hobby H310 (FS30219) Brown, H312 (FS34227) Green and H313 (FS33531) Yellow or Sand and on the underside of the aircraft H308 (FS36375) Grey.
About the green color as mentioned before I use H312 (FS34227) but according to Kinetic instructions the correct green was FS34424 (Medium Grey Green) or T:XF-20 (matt) Israeli for Tamiya. I think there is no difference.

Christian Ristits
Thank you very much Efthymios, I have the Hasegawa F-16I in my stash, your indication gives me a big help!

Efthymios Chatzopoulos
So according your instructions Michael, I made the correct decision with the green H312 FS34227 for "barak". For "Sufa" the correct green is H74 FS34424. The other 2 colors (FS30219 and FS33531) are common for "Sufa"?

Efthymios Chatzopoulos
Finally finished. Unfortunately I had an "accident" with the front wheel. It broke in my attempt to stick the conopy the last second before the end! 🤔 . I am very sad about this. It is a beautiful aircraft with an impressive color variant at the top. I am satisfied with the coloring. I chose not to do weathering. The reason is the matt polish I used over the color. I chose a terrible product from my local hobby store. I think if I try to combine it with thinner and oil color ...it will explode 😄. I hope you like it. Again I want to say that it is my first model in which I used the airbrush.

P J
Beautiful model. 👍

I have a question: how do you do that thing with the colours in the text?

Efthymios Chatzopoulos
Thank you PJ for the comment. About the colours in the text I sent you PM.

Scott Dutton
Wished I understood the green thing, is it all the light green for 16&18 from a set date or only specific variants. I repainted my f-16 recently as thought mugs greenways too light then heard about this new light green. Whatever, this looks great and is the better colour from an aesthetic point of view in my opinion, congrats