Brian Acker
Mooresville, Indiana
To replicate a 122nd Fighter Wing, Indiana Air National Guard aircraft deployed to Balad Air Base, Iraq, in 2008, Brian backdated a Tamiya 1/32 scale F-16CJ to a Block 25 airframe with early intakes and exhausts from KASL Hobby, lightweight gear and bay doors from a Tamiya F-16C Thunderbirds kit, and Block 25 wheels from Aires. Other additions include reinforcing scab plates from Flying Leathernecks, Quinta 3D-printed instrument panels, Kopecky Models FOD covers, Master Models pitots, a Litening targeting pod from Eduard, and ResKit GBU-12 and GBU-38 bombs. He painted the Fighting Falcon with MRP lacquers and used Speed Hunter decals for the Blacksnakes markings.