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Kit - Hasegawa K25 Paint - All Lacquers Decals - Kit Extras - Loadout from spares. McDD F-15C Eagle 36th TFW Bitburg AB, Germany 1986 I know I cannot prove it, but this is the first-ever 1:72 F-15 kit I have built, and I've been nailing bits of plastic together since 1970 ! - Bought this for the massive sum of 10.00 GBP from Phils' Model Shop in Southport back in 1990, and it's sat in my stash ever since. Picked it up around three weeks ago and it's been an absolute joy ever since. We really did have it good back-in-the-day with Hasegawa issuing top-quality kits like this almost monthly. So what to say about the build ? - Apart from the thirty actuating rods for the exhaust petals which were/are a bl**dy nightmare, it's an easy, easy build. Virtually no putty or filler required anywhere, even the potentially disastrous wing/fuselage joint was a breeze. Cockpit area is beautifully detailed and mine is fully painted, however I snapped both the actuating struts when I was manipulating the (huge) canopy into place so reluctantly had to glue the 'glass' into place, shame really but that's down to my sausage fingers and general clumsiness, 'owt to do with the kit. The decals behaved impeccably even after all this time, I was fully prepared for them to shatter into a million atom-sized pieces when they hit the water and they simply didn't !. Paint is Mr Color lacquers and TBH appear a little too blue on the build, so I'll need to have that in mind if I use them on any other Low-Vis build in the future. So as ever thanks for taking the time to look and /or comment... next I'll finish my Tamiya Honda, then maybe a 'What If' project. All the best from Middle Earth. Ian.
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I've been hassling people over in the Modern Aircraft forum, so I ought to show what I've been doing! Due to my recent knee operation and the startlingly good recovery I've been making, I've had plenty of opportunity to build, so I'm aiming to finish this and a 1/32 MiG-29 before I have to go back to work! Firstly I must say BIG thank yous to people on this forum: Canberra Fan for the astonishingly generous donation of the kit and all the aftermarket bits! (Yes he really did!) Stephen on this forum who has lent me the Lock-On and Squadron Walk Around books for the F-15C, which have proved invaluable. Thanks! The build is from the Tamiya 1/32 kit, with copious aftermarket items including Black Box cockpit, Cutting Edge seamless intakes, Eduard exterior, masks and placard set. As usual, I started in the cockpit: Usual stuff here, enamels mostly with acrylics and wash for the panels - obviously I used the Eduard main instrument panel for the sharp detail it provides. The early Eagles had the very fetching metallic green-blue primer in the avionics bay, for which Xtracolour conveniently do an exact match (X159), although it takes a good 48 hours to dry!! All the detail is acrylic hand painted and Eduard placards. Unfortunately, I can't get any decent shots down the intakes, which actually look excellent (the kit parts leave a massive seam down both sides of the duct. The afterburner ducts have exactly the same problem but can be mostly hidden by painting the scorch effects). Should have a whole day to devote to this very nice kit, hopefully it will have reached the point of major assembly by this time tomorrow! By the way, if anyone does have any F-15C-style wheels from the Revell kit they'd like to swap for the Tamiya E-type ones, please drop me a line
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Hi All, Better late than never, here's the finished F-15C from the 1/32 Tamiya kit. Aftermarket items added (seamless intakes, Black Box cockpit/avionics bay, Eduard exterior and placards, TwoBobs Eifel Eagles decal sheet) Build log is HERE Massive * BIG UP * to Canberra Fan who very kindly donated the kit and aftermarket parts. Also thanks to Stephen for lending me the Lock-On and Squadron Walkround books which were invaluable. All pics courtesy of Farnborough IPMS website - taken by the talented Dr Flangemeister! Alan
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