1/48 Tamiya F-16CJ Block 50 

by Oliver Peissl

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Hello everybody,

Here I want to show you my newest Model, the F-16CJ Block 50 of the Hellenic Air Force (HAF)  

The Greek Airforce (HAF) has a total of 180 F-16's from the type F16C/D Block 30, 50 and 52. These  Airplanes have the same modern weapons as the U.S F-16.

The first delivery of F-16C/D's for Greece, code name Peace Xenia I, were Block 30 Airplanes with a General Electric F110-GE-100 Turbofan. The first F-16D for the HAF were delivered on the 18. November 1988.  The F-16C's have been delivered a short time later.

In April 1993, General Dynamics got an additional order to produce 40 more F-16CJ/DJ Block50 Airplanes (32 Charlie and 8 Delta Models). These Airplanes were powered by a General Electric F110-GE-129 power plant, and delivered by the code name Peace Xenia II.

To discern the Blocks 30, 50 and 52 of HAF you only need to read the numbers on the fin. Block30 Series begin with 1, Airplanes of Block50 Series with 0 and the Airplanes of Block52 Series with 5.

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The quality of the Cockpit was 0.K but I also used parts from Eduard and Avionix (ex Blackbox).

All inside surfaces were painted in FS36320 (Gunze-Sangyo) 

The pilot seat is from Avionix and also coloured in FS 36320.  In this early stadium I used the Decals, because these for the pilots seat are also included.

The air intake in the box is with four parts and should be, puttied and sanded on these areas because you can see in it.

One bad thing on this kit is that there are less cables and pilotages in the wheel well. Here I used photo etched parts from Eduard (49390) and cables from my own spare part box.

The inside of the nozzle are upgraded with parts from the Eduardset (49383).

The colours of the F-16and F-4 which were used from the HAF are called "Ghost Scheme".  These colours are FS 35237, FS 36307 and FS 36251.  I only got these colours from Xtracolor.  Because the colours of the F-16 are really bright,  I used a light washing colour.

After airbrushing, I assembled the wheels, tanks, nozzle and weapon racks.

Finally I assembled the ladder from Eduard (48474) to get a really original pic of this model.

Oliver

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Photos and text © by Oliver Peissl