bianfuxia Posted July 20, 2022 Share Posted July 20, 2022 I will build this one because it looks super cool. 8 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vultures1 Posted July 20, 2022 Share Posted July 20, 2022 3 hours ago, bianfuxia said: I will build this one because it looks super cool. It certainly does!! Looking forward to seeing this come together 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corsairfoxfouruncle Posted July 20, 2022 Share Posted July 20, 2022 Welcome to the build @bianfuxia with a hotrod build. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bianfuxia Posted September 15, 2022 Author Share Posted September 15, 2022 Well, I am not sure whether I am going to get this one built by the end of next month...but that'll never happen if I don't start. So I did a little work on it last night. In addition to the meagre progress you see in the photo I also assembled and painted a pilot from the Hasegawa ground crew set. My other (stalled) F-15J has a pilot in it so I wanted them to match. Started with a new kit, although I'd built the cockpit tub by the time I photographed it. Detail is pretty good when you consider how old this kit is. What a decal sheet! It's going to be interesting to see how that looks on the Tamiya spray can paint job I have in mind. A bit of an experiment for me, this kit is. 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wings unlevel Posted September 16, 2022 Share Posted September 16, 2022 I was sorely tempted by this kit/those markings, glad to see it here. How do you say ‘Greased Lightning’ in Japanese? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corsairfoxfouruncle Posted September 16, 2022 Share Posted September 16, 2022 (edited) 7 hours ago, Wings unlevel said: I was sorely tempted by this kit/those markings, glad to see it here. How do you say ‘Greased Lightning’ in Japanese? 油を塗った雷 Abura o nutta kaminari Well at least according to Google translate ? Edited September 16, 2022 by Corsairfoxfouruncle 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bianfuxia Posted September 22, 2022 Author Share Posted September 22, 2022 Not much greased lightning yet I'm afraid... But I have moved things along a bit. for this one you have to cut out the instrument panel coaming and replace it with a newer part appropriate to this era of F-15J. You can see the older part in two pieces there after I cut it out of the two fuselage halves. The newer bit is way better - (a) because it's a single part with one less join line to manage and (b) because it has a bit of detail on it. Here it is next to the same area on the Strike Eagle I'm doing at the same time. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bianfuxia Posted September 29, 2022 Author Share Posted September 29, 2022 I now have an airframe: Started here with the intakes and the pre-painted intake ramps: Once i got those intake ramps inside the air intakes I moved along to here: And then to the worst part of the Hasegawa F-15 - getting a decent fit of the nose part to the main part of the fuselage. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wings unlevel Posted September 29, 2022 Share Posted September 29, 2022 38 minutes ago, bianfuxia said: And then to the worst part of the Hasegawa F-15 - getting a decent fit of the nose part to the main part of the fuselage. Looks like you’ve made a decent job of it, and a great looking shape has emerged before you. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corsairfoxfouruncle Posted September 29, 2022 Share Posted September 29, 2022 Agreed on the nose/fuselage join, it turned out a lot better than mine did. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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