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This model is an Italeri
1/72 F5E Tiger II completely from the box. It shows a standard VFC-13
adversary training USN bird with no radar installed. The VFC-13 is stationed at
NAS Fallon Nevada. This bird wears a lizard desert scheme, the decals come from
TwoBobs 72-003 sheet. http://twobobs.net/
The camouflage is sand FS30279, I used Humbrol
121 and zebra are brown in FS30117 Humbrol 186. The decals are thin and very
accurate with a lot of markings, it's a small plane in 1/72. I cut the flaps to
show them open. The red star and red number 23 simulate a Russian fighter,
and callsigns of the pilots are ALIEN and THUMPER just on the bottom of the
canopy in each side.
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The noise is
satin black and wingtip launch rails are Grey Gunze H308 FS36375. I
decided to add on rails at right a Sidewinder AIM-9L exercise missile in
blue and at left a scratchbuilt TACTS pod in orange. I replaced the original
parts for guns with thin tubes painted in gunmetal to be more accurate.
Now
it seems more operational.
To help me I tried to find some
pictures of the real plane via the web, I found very operational
pictures and I saw that this BuNo plane wear also a red 05 number on noise
during a period. Every plane of this unit is interesting because they wear a lot
of different scheme desert lizard, blue lizard, grey lizard, 3 colors desert, 3
colors blue, 3 colors grey, 3 colors Iranian style, splinter, full black...A
pleasure for colorful planes enthusiast modeler like me. Perhaps I will do a
new one in a next future.
Jean-Charles
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