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Finished up the old 1978 Monogram Cylon Raider. Took a lot of extra work to make it OK. Decals were shot, so I painted the black stripe and the pentagon markings are not present. But still turned out OK I think.

To the ZM vs Academy F-4. It still grinds my gears that ZM go the rear end wrong on the short nose variants. In this day and age, how you do that is beyond me. Otherwise, the engineering is great. The Academy is fantastic. Though I have run into the same toe in issue. At least I know its not just me. Otherwise, the Academy is perfect shape wise. I have the ZM D kit, but wont get any others. I will stick with the Academy. That aside, just finished this a couple days ago. Mengs 1/35 D9R with Friul metal tracks. The kit ones suck IMO. I almost tossed it due to them. Thankfully I foun

New tool 1/48 Revell SR-71. Completely OOB. Good kit.

And the Italeri 1/48 Skyraider in VNAF service.

1/48 Academy F-4B from the Eduard Good Morning Danang boxing.

Finished up a few in the past couple months. 1/48 Monogram F-100D with Aeromaster decals

https://the48ers.com/f-15-c-d-e-k-p-w-exhaust-nozzle-set-opened.html I do believe those would work for you. And scroll down and see all the other stuff they recommend.

The GWH is wrong in shape where as the Tamiya is not. IMO, do NOT waste your time or money on a GWH. There are plenty of options out there for resin exhausts and cockpit details. IMO, the cockpit is horrendously lacking for ANY version. This is an old mold, so NOT the same as a Tamiya kit from today. As for missiles and rails, again, plenty of options out there to dress her up correctly. And in the end, you have a CORRECTLY shaped 15C.

I dont do a lot of spinny thingies, and certainly not many WWII or any subject. But I did this one for a group build so had to. My first ever F4U-1 Corsair. And first ever anything from the Pacific theatre. So totally was guessing on the weathering. Tamiya 1/48.

I have no problems with the Eduard stuff. And I figured out it IS indeed a C cockpit. So I can manage with that. As for the Phase Hangar stuff, I did ask him on his page. He said he thought some of the stuff could be modified but not the intake fans or exhausts. Thats why I was asking, in case anyone had used anything and which sets if they had.

OK, I have the A-10C Blacksnakes kit. I am aware it is wrong for a C. I also know the Phase Hangar stuff is for the HB kit. So here is my question. Is the Eduard PE set labeled for the C actually correct for the C? And what Phase Hangar sets would be able to be used for the Italeri kit? I am presuming the antenna set would be usable. What else? And yes, I did a search and couldnt find a thread on this. So my apologies if its been beat to death. Im sure it has.

That was all I took so far. My photography skills are not that great. LOL What were you looking to see?

Just finished the F-15EX with the GWH kit and BAM Models conversion kit and Caracal decals.

1/48 Italeri CH-47 from Desert Storm.

Pair of Valom 1/72 RF-101Gs.

Nice Tornado! I have the Revell 1/32 with those markings I intend to do at some point.

Thank you. 🙂 The DXM set. I would highly recommend them if you want to do a VF-1. They have like 5 different sets of markings for them from the original like the one I did, to low viz schemes. And Pax River! Southern MD guy here. 🙂

My second Cat from my dual build. The Tamiya 1/48 F-14A done as a VF-1 plane from the evacuation of Saigon. Plus a couple pics of both cats together. 🙂

Just finished the AMK 1/48 F-14D in the Vandy 1 livery. The kits is very good, but also Jekyll and Hyde. Mostly very good fit, but some really not so good fits. The fuselage to body join was especially bad. Though over all, much recommended. My phone camera is being wonky, so the pics do not do it justice.

Not a plane. Something a bit different...

Finished this up last week. Kitty Hawk SU-35 in 1/48. The kit itself is fantastic. No fit issues. As a matter of fact, the intakes were a dream! And I HATE intakes. This is well engineered kit, with excellent quality. The exhausts are fantastic BUT they only give you the option of having them straight back, as in flight or powered up. There is no drooped option. I had to get a resin set to be able to do that. Regardless, for the plastic, an A. The directions. Graphically, excellent. Instructional wise, they suck. Even with careful examination I had to take apart a few

The review HomeBe posted is informative. I will have to check these out.

I know there have been a few sets done. I know Hasegawa also had a boxing of this as well. I did notice some things that were not totally accurate with Revells decals, but they are fairly close. I was happy with them.

The decals are thick. Which I liked in this case. You have to do a lot of fiddling around with the large ones to get them in place. If they were overly thin, they would not have stood up to the handling. Use Solvaset. Micro set is NOT going to be strong enough. I applied the Solvaset, let it sit for a few minutes and wiped it of. Next day the decals were settled down well.

Revell 1/48 F-15C ANG 75th anniversary