I have recently joined the forum and this is my first WIP.......
I have not built an aircraft model since I was about 11 years old, over the past few weeks I have built a Tiger tank, two Le Mans Ford racecars and a Ducati 916. I thought it might be fun to try a plane next and try to do a thread for it.
Living about 10 minutes from RAF Lakenheath, an F15 was the obvious choice, I had heard good things about the Academy kit with the only negative being the simplified exhaust nozzles. A set of Aires resin replacements should improve that. I also have Eduard PE for the cockpit and Two Bob's decals
The quality of moulding and detail is very impressive compared to what I remember!
The first task was to modify the rear
fuselage to accommodate the Aires nozzles.
Check out the fit of these two parts, this is dry fit.
Test fit of the exhaust
That's it for now, thanks for looking, really enjoying this one.