F-16CJ Block 50B CCIP 77th FS ‘Gambler’ in Operation Odyssey Dawn / Unify Protector'

My subject replicates 91-0345 from 77th FS flew by LTC Johny Vargus in Operation Odyssey Dawn.

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The kit is from Academy. As you know, it has shape issue around the nose. But overall details are correct. So I tried to correct it by using Wolfpack Designs improvement set. But the resin nose was a little bit shrunk. 

List of aftermarket

• Wolfpack Designs set

• Dr.Pepper Resin Exhaust (superb)

• Hobby Decal pitot and AOA probes

• Twobob decal ‘Shaw Viper’ (new some modification to match my subject)

• Modern Hobbies BRU-57

• Hasegawa 1/72 weapon set (for left HTS, GBU-38 JDAM)

Small inlet at the leading edge of vertical stab was deleted. It is a BLOS (Beyond Line Of Sight) radio system update. This panel’s color is lighter than the rest of stab.

In Odyssey Dawn, his particular aircraft was still clean. So, I kept weathering quite subtle. 

To fellow modelers, I would like to confess that squadron tail band is not 100% correct. 

Because the letters is should be have a club of cards, not only a spade. Authentic decals released their latest sheet for this particular aircraft in both 1/72 and 1/48 scales. 

Nat Krairojananan

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