F-10 Fancy

[comrade harps]

When the United Nations decided to roll back communism by invading what it saw as the failed state of Korea, it was asking for more than it bargained. As China and the Socialist Union were having one of their frequent ideological stouches, the UN Security Council thought that it could get away with storming up the Korean peninsula on a "humanitarian mission" whilst the two red giants were locked in a stalemate about who should move first.

They were wrong.

Firstly, the Koreans fought back with WMDs. Secondly, the Chinese and the SU made up and moved together. Thirdly, the Chinese invoked clauses in its mutual defence treaties with other south east Asian nations to destabilize the UN's flanks.



F-10 Fancy , Bien Hoa, Vietnam, 23 June, 2007, unit unidentified

On this date, two of Vietnam's new F-10s (including 1006) flew out over the Spratly Islands and shot down a P-3C of the Philippines Navy. It was the start of the Spratlys War, a campaign of small actions and mutual destabilization that lasted for over three years and also involved China, Taiwan, Malaysia and many remote UN member states. It wasn't until the Korean peninsula was firmly back in the hands of red forces in late 2010 that the fighting in and around the Spratlys subsided.

[Archibald]

Brilliant!    

[Rafael]

Comrade, This is wonderful!!!
Nice camo, backstory...and model!!!    

Congrats,
Rafa

[lancer]

Amazing.

[anthonyp]

Neat!  The J-10 looks pretty spiffy in those colours.  I've got an F-8II that'd go well with that.

Nice work!

   

[cthulhu77]

 Quite striking !

[Brian da Basher]

Wow a real stunner, comrade harps! I really like how the dark blue patches of camo set off those Vietnamese markings! Excellent!

Brian da Basher

[NARSES2]

Nice one - great scheme

[ysi_maniac]

COOL! B)    B)  

Can you give us a short review of this kit?

Thanks,
Carlos.

[anthonyp]

COOL! B)    B)  

Can you give us a short review of this kit?

Thanks,
Carlos.

I've built four of them, and it's a fairly easy, straight-forward build.  Typical modern Trumpeter kit engineering, instructions well laid out.  They're fun kits to build.

[ysi_maniac]

^^^
Thanks.

If someone wants to build a Lavi from this kit... http://modelingmadness.com/others/shows/ip...0Dec06-(48).JPG

[BlackOps]

Great back story and very nice build..two thumbs up!

[philp]

^^^
Thanks.

If someone wants to build a Lavi from this kit... http://modelingmadness.com/others/shows/ip...0Dec06-(48).JPG

You beat me to it.
I had the pic copied and was looking for which thread to put it in.    

[Ian the Kiwi Herder]

Reminiscent of the Mitsubishi F2 scheme, but with a hard edge. Is this the first built F-10 we've had here

Ian

[comrade harps]

QUOTE (ysi_maniac @ Jan 26 2007, 10:38 AM)
COOL!     

Can you give us a short review of this kit?

Thanks,
Carlos. 


I've built four of them, and it's a fairly easy, straight-forward build. Typical modern Trumpeter kit engineering, instructions well laid out. They're fun kits to build.

I can only agree. It's a nice and easy one to build.

By the way, the black bit ahead of the canopy is an IRST from an old F-8 Crusader. I wanted to add a little something, a la Fulcrum and Flanker.

Reminiscent of the Mitsubishi F2 scheme, but with a hard edge.

I was actually inspired by the standard USAF F-16 scheeme, but with colour; I see what you mean, though.  

I was also inspired by some of the blue schemes that Sukhoi seem to like applying recently. Very tropical, reefy and maritime, perfect for the Spratlys I reckon. Part of my back back story is that the Vietnamese kept their new F-10s very much away from prying eyes until they were in action, as the colour scheme would have given away their intended offensive over water role. It's nice therefore that the kit comes with three drop tanks.

Thanks for the comments.