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My Royal Netherlands Air Force demo team F-16 is now finished:
I sprayed semi-gloss varnish over the model to seal in the decals and tone down the high gloss orange a bit.
The model is suspended from two steel rods in the smoke pods, which I painted white and then covered in PVA glue and cotton wool to replicate the smoke coming from the pods on the wingtips.
Here’s the whole display stand:
This is a 50 by 15 cm piece of perspex, bent at a 90 degree angle to give a horizontal bit of about 30 cm long, and two holes drilled for the steel rods (actually, those were added before bending). Bending the material was quite easy with a hot-air gun and a piece of wood held in a vice: I had first marked out where to bend, then heated that up as evenly as I could, and when it seemed bendy enough, I carefully pushed the free (short) end down over the edge of the wood.
I sprayed semi-gloss varnish over the model to seal in the decals and tone down the high gloss orange a bit.
The model is suspended from two steel rods in the smoke pods, which I painted white and then covered in PVA glue and cotton wool to replicate the smoke coming from the pods on the wingtips.
Here’s the whole display stand:
This is a 50 by 15 cm piece of perspex, bent at a 90 degree angle to give a horizontal bit of about 30 cm long, and two holes drilled for the steel rods (actually, those were added before bending). Bending the material was quite easy with a hot-air gun and a piece of wood held in a vice: I had first marked out where to bend, then heated that up as evenly as I could, and when it seemed bendy enough, I carefully pushed the free (short) end down over the edge of the wood.