Hi guys, need abit of colour help with this f16. Model was from a friend but no instructions, so dont know right colours. did a search and liked this color scheme
can someone give me color name/numbers please. thankyou.
i finished my first model other day, first for years, of my f14 tomcat, looks really good. (still got an apache to paint). ill get a pic of it ASAP and post it. with help from all you guys made it possible…respect gordon J
Check out Don Color’s site for more info.
http://www.jpsmodell.de/dc/shemes/egypt1_e.htm
I don’t know about most of the other paint manufacturers, but you can get all those colors in Testor’s Model Master line.
perfect trigger74, thanks alot. Unfortunatly i cant get model testors paint were i am. Only tamiya and revell. Although i can figure out the FS colors (roughly).
Thanks again, sasarchiver
BTW whats Radome?? the nosecone??
One last thing, how would u get the canopy a hint of gold, like clear, not gold color enamel.
Yup, radome is the nose. The colors vary on F-16s. Some are dark, some are medium and others are a match to the FS36270. Only the Block 1 F-16A/Bs had black radomes (pilots complained that the black noses stuck out like sore thumbs in ACM, so from the Block 5s on, they found a gray paint that they could use)
The gold tint on the canopy is for the same reason the F-117s windows are tinted (hint hint). The 1/48 Hasegawa kits (which are the best Viper kits out there) actually come with tinted canopies. You can try mixing Tamiya Smoke with some Clear Yellow and airbrush that onto a “normal” canopy.
thanks for that trigger, ill check my store next for tamiya clear yellow…do you know the revell paint colors for FS35375 and FS36320. got the other 2 ok, just stuck on these two now…thanks for ur adivce there trigger, cheers.
My 1/48 Hasegawa ‘CJ’ Falcon came with only a clear canopy. Going to have to attempt airbrushing the clear smoke myself. The other gripe I have is the seam line that goes right through the middle of the canopy. I understand that it’s a part of molding a true ‘bubble’ canopy, but I’ll still gripe about it! Other than that, the Hasegawa Falcons are pretty much unmatched.
Not only Hasegawa’s canopy is with this line on top. Revell’s F-15, F-18 that I have came with the same…I wouldn’t call it even a problem… just one more thing to do…
I was also a little confused when I saw it the first time but then I tryed Tamiya compaund and just in 10 minutes it came out crystal clear! Even better then I could imagine the canopy to be[:)] Now I compound every clear part on every model and then cover it with Future. Just try this procedure one time, look at the result and you will see the difference[;)]
Andy
You only got a clear? Hmmm… well, that might not be a bad thing since that’s a Block 50/52 kit you’ve got. The gold tint on Vipers is hit or miss. Some have it, others don’t. Word thru the grapevine is that the gold tint is going away anyway. It’s too high maint and too easily damaged so other tints may be used - like smoke. All my late model Viper kits are stored away at the moment, but I know my F-16N came with two canopy sprues, one clear and the other tinted.
Here are the Tamiya colors.
FS35376 – XF-19 for the belly
FS36118 – XF-24 for the the top dark area
FS36270 – XF-53 for the front light area OR you can use XF-19 (because nowadays the belly and the front area are the same color, but that aircraft in your picture does have the colors separate)
FS36320 – Gunze H307 for the radome OR you can mix XF-19 and 24 according to your taste, since F-16 radomes come in lots of different colors anyway.
OffTopic:
I am doing an F-16 in Venezuelan scheme, and the literature recommended Gunze Sangyo for the light green (the other colors had Tamiya equivalents, thank god). Man, Gunze Sangyo paint brushes on real thick! I already had a hard time with the Gunze H307 for my previous F-16s in gray schemes (the radome), and this time it’s no better. Moral: Don’t brush paint Gunze paints.
Yeah, since about 1995, F-16s started going from the three tone gray scheme to the current two-tone. The Viper in your first pic was circa 1990/91 whereas the second Viper pic is from the mid-to late 1990s when they were deployed for operations over Bosnia
thanks for all the info guys, appreciated…gordon J