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For a while now I have been working on a F-104G Starfighter template, recently I have been working on its tiptanks and preparing to start on the cockpit area. I have however been having trouble getting adequate pictures of these items. If you have good pictures of these items I would love to see them!

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As of today all comments on the blog should be in english or dutch or they will be deleted. I am taking this step to combat trackback spam from russian sites.

Ugo Crisponi of aviationgraphic.com has created a cool poster for my most recent drawing!

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If you like helicopters you should really check out Ugo’s work, he is the king of helicopter profiles if you ask me.

Another user of Springfield is the Ohio Air National Guard. The 162nd Fighter Squadron of the 178th Fighter Wing, a training unit, calls the base home operating F-16C and D aircraft. The units aircraft sport an attractive black feline design which I couldn’t resist drawing.

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Since April 2007 the Royal Netherlands Airforce has maintained a Training Detachment at the Springfield Air National Guard Base at Springfield-Beckley Municipal Airport (KSGH) in Clark County, Ohio. This unit operates RNLAF F-16AM and F-16BM’s which are periodically rotated back to The Netherlands.

The course last for six to eight months and trains pilots who before that had no experience on the F-16. Other trainings given are F-16 refresher courses, Exchange pilots conversion, Night Vision Goggle training, Target Pod training and Ops training. This arrangement serves to reduce the load on the crowded airspace in north western europe and also to reduce noise pollution by reducing the number of flights flown in the area.

Over the coming months I will try and add aircraft that have been rotated, so far I have a number of 306 Sqn marked aircraft, two single-seaters and one dual training aircraft. If you have additional photographs of aircraft wearing markings for the Springfield detachment I’d love to have them. I’d like to thank Remy Janssen for helping me out with some killer photographs so far.

F-16BM J-065

F-16AM J-620

F-16AM J-647

I have added a profile I did for the 181st FW a long while ago to the profile section, I’ve added some recent stores I drew. Check it out!

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I have created a Facebook profile, if you want to see what I am drawing on facebook feel free to add me! I will be keeping it updated with the website.

No actually I’m not! I added some “Wild Weasel” Phantoms. “Wild Weasel” means these aircraft were used to attack enemy air defenses, one of the most dangerous tasks there are in an airwar! If you want to know what YGBSM means try asking google.

Recently the Turkish Airforces 172nd Filo painted one of its jets in a quite beautifull paintscheme, though I couldn’t find a lot of refference material I managed to cobble this together

I have added a number of my Israeli Aiforce F-16’s to the profile section.