Falcon - Finished!

Now that all the decals are in place, it was a simple matter of installing the fuel tanks, missiles and canopy.

I'm very happy with the result. I intended to place it inside a small display case on a strip of tarmac, but that will be a different project.

Kit: F-16 MLu (Mid-Life upgrade)
Scale: 1/72
Manufacturer: Revell (#04612)
Price: around €10 (second-hand)
Number of parts: 98
Time spent: 18 hours
Project completion time: exactly 1 year

Paint: (Vallejo)

• Black primer
• Pale grey blue (71.046) - belly
• Intermediate blue (71.005) - topside (partial)
• Various shades of grey (lost track)

Other products:

• Alclad II klear kote (semi-gloss before decals and matte afterwards)
• Formula '560' Canopy glue (for glueing transparent parts)

Findings or issues?

It was a pretty straightforward build, no fit issues that I recall. The small antennae at the rear tend to "disappear" but that's just my clumsiness.

It would have been finished a year ago had it not been for me losing interest in applying 200 decals.