Wheeliant (Aires) | 132 002: F-16C/CJ Fighting Falcon Weighted Wheels (Goodyear)
Reviewed by Kevin Williams
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Wheeliant (an Aires product line), has set about making a straight swap set of wheels/tires for the F-16C/CJ Viper kit here. Though Aires specifically recommends these for the Tamiya kit, I can see no reason why they wouldn’t work equally well for the Academy version of this spiffy fighter.
The Package Contents
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Wheels are molded in what has become the now familiar hard gray resin, and the molded in detail is just stunning: a kit unto itself as it were. I really don’t know what else to say about these, save for the fact that once painted properly, these will undoubtedly make an easy and relatively inexpensive upgrade to your 1:32 Viper kits. A chunk of copper wire is also thoughtfully included to help represent the brake lines, but I have doubts if these alone will be sufficient unto themselves to capture the appearance of the actual lines, but that’s just some serious nit-picking on my own part.
Instructions
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Instructions are included in the form of one small illustrated sheet, that is pretty straightforward and self explanatory, even going so far as to include a small chart of actual tire sizes, a nice touch.
All in all, I can (and do) recommend these as a really cool Viper upgrade, adding much realism and detail to what is frequently an overlooked portion of many models.
Recommended Reading Material/Reference
Daco F-16 Uncovered
Reid Air F-16 Viper guide
Squadron/Signal F-16 Walk Around
© Kevin Williams 2015
This review was published on Friday, August 07 2015; Last modified on Tuesday, April 12 2016