Originally Posted by
Levi Wags
David my main concern was having a $20K model that's only sport Scale, I can add Fuse plates, lighting patterns, antennas, and an accurate paint job down the track. However if the airframe shape was wrong to start with, I'd have no motivation to add the detail.
Good point about contacting SM regarding the F16 reference they used.
David what do you make your scale parts out of? I know 3D printing seems popular but can get heavy. Could you share some detail pics of your F16?
Thanks
Levi
Levi you can get good results with 3D Printing as long as you can get good models for 3D Printing (i.e. hollow vs solid). They come out rough, but you can prime and sand and get good results. At the scale you want, weight is not an issue for small parts such as pitos, antenna, scoops. The only difficult part to make would be a thin fin base for A models if that's what you have.
Which bird exactly do you want to make?
Also, I think the different wing profiles may be due to a manufacturer error. I know that SM and FEJ wings on their small F-16s are sport scale to give them better performance, perhaps they carried the error to some of the large scale molds?
In any case, use Peter's as a reference 😁
id bet he's is more accurate than Lockheed's.