F-16 GE Engine Colors

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I’m recently coming back to modeling and am just learning about metalizer and/or alclad paints. I’m building a 1/32 F-16 would like some recommendations on paints/colors for the GE engine.

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I couldn’t tell you specific colors, but I did see an article in FSM where the guy had the Tamiya F-16 and before detail painting the engine with Metalizer paints, he laid on an undercoat of gloss black. Said it really made the details pop out when he finished with metalizers.

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Try Google Image search. Isn’t that an F100 engine? There should be lots of photos available. As I remember those engines there are a lot of different colors involved, and shading of hot sections due to burning/oxidation.

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I do have many pictures as well as practical experience with the F110 engines. I’m looking for help with paint colors to reproduce the look of the various metals on the engine.

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Thanks, but I’m looking more for assistance determining what paint colors best reproduce the various metals on the GE engine.

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that search might give you lots of Ford engines…[:P]

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Haha, OO,and Flathead V-8s and Fours, at that. It is great to see someone that knows that there were F series pickups before the F-150, with their Y-blocks.

AF, I would try to help out, but, all I could do is post photos of engines, and I think you already have those.

The best advice I have is to ask you how close you think the various model Metalizer paints are to the actual metals? And to then suggest that you go from there with your knowledge of what metals the visible parts of the F-16 and F-14 engines are made up with.

I used various Steel, Aluminum and Iron colors for my J-79 models,but, that doesn’t help you much, except to say that the next batch I do will get a coat of one metal color and then the new AK Metal paste in each place that I want the color to vary.

Rex

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For Heat discoloration, I go over the heated areas with a light mix of clear blue and/or jet exhaust and burnt metal.

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I mixed gunmetal with a metallic paint, I think it was aluminum. Assuming, you are talking solely about the exhaust nozzle, that would probably give it a pretty close color. Want to try to keep it a bit on the light side though.