Skip to main content

Posts

Showing posts with the label 313 Squadron

RNLAF F-16 NATO Tigermeet 1991

You may remember that I built some 1/144 scale jets last year. Well, it’s time for another jet now, only in 1/72 scale this time. This is one of two Dutch F-16’s of 313 squadron sent to the 1991 NATO Tigermeet at RAF Fairford. The two jets were given a special paint job for the occasion. Back then, 313 squadron was stationed at Twenthe Airbase at Enschede. The red banner with rampant horses on the tail is derived from the flag of Twenthe. The model is a rather old kit by Revell, which I picked up second-hand. The kit must have been made somewhere in the mid 90’s, but I remember reading somewhere that it was basically a reissue of a kit from 1976 with a small upgrade sprue and new decals to turn it into a Dutch F-16. Two big identifiers of the Dutch F-16’s made under licence by Fokker are the drogue parachute in the tail and the tinted glass of the canopy. The other of the two planes sent to the 1991 Tigermeet.   Given that it is such an old kit, it went together pretty well. T...