13-06-04
Guys, I have the Academy 1/48 A/C F-16. I want to make an F-16 Agressor using the Two-Bobs Old School Adversarys 48-038. I was thinking of the Navy one.
Any advise as to how to do this?
I also have the Revell 1/48 Tiger meet F-16A . How difficult would it be to convert this to a “C”?
Thnaks in advance.
Liam
yeehah12001;
well it depends on which scale you are doing?, the only differances from the AF’s & Navy’s 16 is that the radar & gun where removed for the Navy’s, and they are of at block 25 style C model and all you need is the F-16C with the Pratt/Whitney engine (old style), as for the F-16C the only visiual differences from the A’s are the gun door and the ASPJ pod at the base of the vertical stab, the C’s had the wider base, what I’d do is the Academy as the C and the Revell as the N it should have the ASPJ pod included if I remember correctly
F-16C to N
The F-16N was basically a Blk 30 F-16C with the F-16As APG-66 radar, and the cannon and Advanced Self-Protection Jammer were removed. They flew with the GE F110 engine, but had the original “Small Mouth” air intake (same as all F-16s that are powered by the P&W F100). There were two sensors mounted on the intake chin where you would mount LANTRIN pods. USAF “Agressor” F-16s carried these too I think and you can get them from Cobra Company. Due to their low weight (older radar, no jammer, cannon or external stores save a training AIM-9 and ACMI pod) and the more powerful GE engine, the Ns were the hot rods of the Viper community.
hey Trigger74;
when did the N’s have the F-110 GE’s, from the pix I have (and they are dated back to the mid 80’s) the N’s had the PW’s F-100 PW 200’s, I’ve worked the Ole Lawn Darts for about 10 years on the AF side from block 2’s (78 year)to 30’s (88 year big mouth F-110 GE 220’s)
Sorry cuda…F-16N’s were small mouth block 30’s with A model radars and no gun. I have worked “darts” continuously since 1983. I was even offered the chance to work on the original F-16 top gun program at Miramar but turned it down. Here is a link to a highly respected F-16 website for more info http://www.f-16.net/modules.php?op=modload&name=Sections&file=index&req=viewarticle&artid=60&page=1
Dont get the F-16N model confused with the F-16A models that they are currently flying at Fallon…these are some of the embargoed F-16’s that were have supposed to go to the Pakistani Air Force.
I’ve worked the Darts from 1982 to 1987 & 1991 to 1996, at Nellis & Hahn GE (on Active Duty)and Buckley (Guard) but the pix I have of the N’s (mid 1980’s ish)showed the PW engines not the GE’s, I figured they where of the Block 25 types, but now I see that they are the older Block 30’s,
Yo 'Cuda!
It’s my understanding that they had them right from the beginning (they had more power and maybe it would have been easier/cheaper getting parts since F-14s were starting to fly with F110s around that time). All the pictures I’ve seen they have the GE powerplant. Block 30 denotes a GE engine. Block 32 denotes a PW engine. But they both had small mouth intakes.
The differences in the shapes of the exhaust nozzles are easier to distinguish when in flight. The PW engines have a straight profile whereas the GEs have a slight curve to them.
I have to admit, this is the first I’ve heard of a PW powered F-16N. If you have pix of one, I’d love to see them.
Hey Trigger;
I got the pix out and it looks like those pre-ordered touched up pix that the manufacture releases before the planes are ever rolled out, like the Block 60 F-16’s for the Qatari Air Force, it’s a real pix of an F-16 but air brushed over with the Navy’s colors & insignia’s and it looks like it might be a production Block 25 because I got this pix from the '85 Paris Airshow, as for the production planes it would make more sense to have the F110 engined planes for parts avaibility with the others flown by the Navy because the core of the F110 is the same as the F404’s flown in the F/A-18’s except the outer section is slightly larger