Thinning down my collection, some great deals to be had! The rare and hard to find 1/48 F-16XL. Kit has sealed inner bags and features fine recessed panel lines with spectacular details and full weapons loads. The decal sheet is complete with 5 markings options and full stencil marking options for Israel and USAF! See the full specifications of whats included and kit options. Integral wings on fuselage halves make assembly/alignment easy. Nicely detailed cockpit and ACES II ejection seat. Updated radome with lightning protection. Nice NSI intake with Pratt F100 engine face at the end of the duct. Nice F100 afterburner section. Positionable leading edge flaps. Positionable trailing edge surfaces. You’ll remember that the F-16XL airframes were based upon F-16 Block 1 airframes so the demonstrator was powered by the Pratt and Whitney F100 using the narrow-mouth (NSI) intake. General Dynamics had not yet started on the F-16C series so they had not developed the capabilities for GE F110 power at that time. This kit has a very nice selection of armament included, some of which were used in the ETF competition, and some which are included as’what-if’ updates. 2 x AIM-9L/M Sidewinder. 2 x AIM-120B AMRAAM. 2 x AGM-65 Maverick. 2 x GBU-31 JDAM. 2 x CBU-87 cluster bombs (labeled GBU-87 in the instructions). 2 x GBU-12 Paveway. 1 x AAQ-113/AAQ-114 LANTIRN pods. Not mentioned in the instructions but worth noting. 2 x AIM-9X Sidewinder. 2 x AIM-120C AMRAAM. 2 x GBU-24 Paveway. Not included but were carried during flight test/evaluation. The kit includes two sheets of decals which provide five options. F-16XL, USAF prototype scheme, 1982. F-16XL, NASA 849, 1993. F-16XL, 90-0776, 75 FS/23 Wing, USAF 1995 (fictional). F-16XL, 90-0708, 16 WS/57 Wing, USAF (fictional). F-16XL, 512, 101 Squadron, Israeli AF (fictional). The decals provide a nice set of airframe and weapons stencils for each of the subjects.
