Plastic World Modeling Products

1/48 F-16 Resin Tail items

Product Article by Jean-Paul Poisseroux in 2002

 

Here's some items seen at the National Convention in Belgium last October, the products are from the craftsman at Plastic World Modeling Products and includes  conversions kits and resin details.  Stationed 10 years with Kleine Brogel, they have a strong focus without limits for the F-104 and F-16 in particular.  Their product lines includes 38 items....5 for 1/72, 18 for 1/48 and 15 for 1/32.  

The products below relate to the tail of the F-16.

  • 4801 (see photo directly below) for Belgian F16 of first generation longer than that of standard F16 with housing of the ECM behind the vertical fin. Additional parts are the antennas Report III on the air intake.

 

 

  • 4803 is for an Israeli, delivered like reference 4801 with the antennas Report III.  The tail is nevertheless longer and amongst other things carries a vertical antenna forward. 

  • 4805 for a Turkish F16C or Venezuelan 

  • 48018 for Netherlands. On the latter one finds in  ECM FAIRING a parachute brake.

 

  • 48016 (see photo directly below) for Belgian F16 with its evolution -CARAPACE-, constituted of the traditional tail reinforced at its end to which two antennas are added, bulbous to place in front of the nose gear and another of square form to insert in the end of the housing.  In all the sets, the photographs clearly indicate the location of all the new parts, including for this last reference the structural reinforcements on the back of the fuselage.

Jean-Paul Poisseroux

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Photos and text © by Jean-Paul Poisseroux