@gblair, thank you, George. If a F-16 would apprear on my bench, I always wanted to go for a squadron based on Volkel. Although 311 squadron has been dismantled since 2012. Looking forward to yours.

@georgeswork, thanks, George. Sounds like a promising kit which I will enjoy for sure.

Hi John, hope you will enjoy the build of jet aircraft. @johnb
I certainly do and to be honest I also like to build an occasional propeller driven bird as long as it fits my current 1/48 RNLAF (KLu) theme! 😊

Excellent entry and great start, my friend @johnb!
Looking forward to it!

Paintwork started on the interior, dry fitted the fuselage which does go together quite nicely.

@fiveten, thank you, Spiros

Looks promising indeed! 👍

Mounted the characteristic air intake, did fit quite nicely.

While searching the net regarding the J-636, the aircraft I will build, is shown with and without a chute installed. I always thought that Dutch F16s did carry a chute but as you can see on the added pictures, this is not correct. It seems that this specific aircraft got one installed or removed. @alfred, or others, any idea about this observation.

Without the chute

And with the chute installed

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