right. as some of you know i have been looking forward to making a hasegawa f-16A in 1/48. I particualy like the either 1998 or 2003 tiger meet decals.
after a bit of searching i had the options of either getting an F-16A off ebay and buying the 1998 tiger meet decals seperatly. I had previously found a 1:48 2003 tiger meet on a website but they no longer did models.
...well it came to my actaully buying it this month and with thorough searching by myself, squiffythewombat and other uk distributers and companies we realised that hasegawa no longer produced an F-16A in 1:48 let alone a tiger meet one. They do however do
1 1:48 F-16 but this is the F-16 CJ which is a Japanese model.
I was content on getting the F-16A as Eduard do a
HUGE after-market set for it and i have had the vision of the complete kit for some time now so there was no turning back....much to the dissapointment of a few companies i phoned.
Anyway....after all this i rang the company that
DID have the 1:48 2003 tiger meet kit on a chance they may still have it but no longer have it listed on their website. (by squiffythewombats recomendation) i rang them....no joy. 20 minutes later the lady rang back. She had a feeling there was one hidden in the stock room somewhere, and she was right!!!
so after all this trouble...and you reading all my babbling this will be the build thread of the Hasegawa 1:48 F-16A Fighting Falcon with the 2003 NATO Tiger Meet paint scheme with the Eduard Big Ed after market parts.
see the attachment for a pic of the box. I will get some propper photos up once i get the kit.
See link for the eduard after-market parts.
I am going to set this
either in a hanger (kind of cross-sectioned so you can see inside) or as if it is at an airshow and ropped off.
http://www.eduard.cz/./products/card...&page_start=15