1/72 F-16CG/CJ Fighting Falcon

A new-tool 1/72 F-16C kit from Academy. Significantly better in many ways than the long-in-the-tooth Hasegawa kit, this kit features well-detailed cockpit and landing gear straight from the box, optional parts for a smooth nose or either of two styles of IFF "bird slicers," optional ASPJ antennas, optional braking parachute housing for under the rudder, large-mouth intake with decently deep trunking, underwing and centerline drop tanks, two each AMRAAM, AIM-9M, AIM-9X, AGM-88, Towed Decoy System and GBU-31 JDAM, plus one each AN/ALQ-184 ECM pod, AN/AAQ-14 and AN/AAQ-13 targeting and navigation pods and AN/ASQ-213 HTS pod. The kit is single-seat specific, although gate marks on the sprues suggest that Academy has at least planned for a two-seat version. The canopy is molded correctly as a "double bubble," and is in tinted clear plastic. Decals are given to enable you to build any of five USAF Fighting Falcons: F-16CG of the 8th FW at Kunsan AB, Korea; F-16CJ of the 5th AF at Misawa AB, Japan; F-16CG of the 51st FW at Osan AB, Korea; F-16CJ of the 79th FS at Shaw AFB, South Carolina; and F-16CJ of the 52nd FW at Spangdalem AB, Germany.