RNZAF F-16 Images

[tehaviata]

Hey there;
I've been scouring the web for months searching for the F-16 in the Kiwi colors and have been unsuccessful.
Is there anyone with any RNZAF F-16 pics out there that can share??
I know there is pics as I used to have a panthlet that had several images of what is requested above.
Cheers
Ben

[phil]

That macchi actually flew past Mt Ruapehu. The photograph was taken by Jason Love, I've seen the negative, it was not photoshopped.

The F16 image simply replaced the macchi with an F-16. It was most famously used on the box top of the Kiwi colours 'RNZAF' F-16. There were no 'real' RNZAF F-16s, they never got that far.

[phil]

I don't think there was a lot of photoshopping going on in 1996 in the RNZAF.

[b10m]

Here's something from the talents of Naki.
I know its not quite what you asked for but it probably the best going seeing as how!!!!!!!!!!
rnzaf.proboards43.com/index.cgi?board=games&action=display&thread=5220

[lesterpk]

There was this one floating around for a while

[tehaviata]

ummm Phil,I know for a fact there were F-16s painted in the rnzaf colours as i did have,as i said above,a panthlet/poster which had several images of two or three F-16s in the air superiority gray colour scheme...
Cheers for the links and pictures guys!!

[Dave Homewood]

I hate to say this Les, but I believe that may be one of my photoshop concoctions posted on the forum a few years back. Shorty's words of yesterday about colourising photos (see the forum header thread stickied in the General Board) are already haunting me.

[Dave Homewood]

Ben, the RNZAF F-16's never got out of the desert aircraft park where they were purchased from as far as i know, and none were put into NZ colours. Phil is correct, and what you saw would have been marketing images created by a graphic artist, just like I coloured a Dutch F-16 above into No. 2 Squadron colours, or my faked Avenger image in my signature.

[tehaviata]

Sweet as,it looked pretty real though as they were on the tarmac at NZOH

[Freighter5910]

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[tehaviata]

Oh yip,I've already got the images of them sitting at Davis- Mothan aye but cheers any way mate!!

[phil]

They certainly never got to OH!

[kiwikid]

I'm sure Calum wouldn't mind us having a look at his great interpretation again
www.gibstuff.net/models/F-16B.html

Kiwikid

[tehaviata]

Thanks for that one mate,I thinks it's awesome as!!
Are the anymore RNZAF models on that site??

[kiwikid]

Yup, just click on the COMPLETED BUILDS tab at the top of the page. Check out the A-4 ALLEY for a host of Kiwi A-4 pics

Kiwikid

[tehaviata]

Cheers mate!!
The models are amazing!!

[beagle]

these are the images from the desert and also inside the reactivation centre.
I am pretty sure they got to the stage where some engines were removed and sent away for modifications etc. ?

[Dave Homewood]

Perhaps if these were purchased a few months earlier, that site of F-16's under white plastic might have been seen at Woodbourne these days.

[tbf25o4]

Greetings all,

the photo of the F16 and Ruapehu was done using photoshop and the two images , Ruapehu with the Macchi and a standard USAF air-to-air of an F16.
These were done by Andy Radka a photographer on my PR staff at Wellington in 1998.
As seen in some pics in this forum the real F16s did not get painted in any RNZAF colours

Incidentally, wearing another hat I chose the serial numbers for the F16's they were to be

NZ6521 - 6541 for the single seaters
NZ6501 - NZ6504 for the "T" birds

These numbers correspond to the last two for the Vampires the "first generation jets" the
RNZAF operationally used.

Some initial squadron markings were discussed with one of the front runners being the
No.75s,No14,No2 Squadron checks or bars ALA TAF days being reproduced in a band across the fins of the respective squadron's aircraft



Paul

[tehaviata]

Thanks Paul,would you happen to have or know where I can obtain the image of the F-16 and Ruapehu??