Twobobs 1/48 F-16 Victim Vipers

Here is an interesting release from TwoBobs Decals. This set evidently started as a commemorative item reflecting the heritage of Tracor Flight Systems' work in converting retired fighter aircraft into target drones, which carries on today after that company was acquired by British Aerospace (BAE Systems). Now these decals are available to you as part of TwoBob's catalog and feature a pair of notional target aircraft.

This set looks into the future of aerial targets and depicts an F-16A ADF and an F-16C Block 25 marked up as drone aircraft, one out of Tyndall AFB and the other out of Holloman AFB.

A number of the decals on this sheet are multi-layer decals - one must be placed atop another to render the artwork. This is a bit of an inconvenience that you must stack decals to create the unit shields, the drop-shadow tail codes, Air Combat Command shield, etc. Nevertheless, these notional markings are a glimpse into the future of target aviation as tired Vipers will be called upon to serve their country one last time to help test future generations of air combat armaments.

Aside from this minor glitch, this set is recommended!

For more information about this set and the other releases from Twobobs Aviation Graphics, visit their website at http://www.twobobs.net.