1/48 Revell Strike Eagle

[nzdavidh]

Some early progress shots of my F-15E build. First off though, a huge thanks to those who offered assistance when I posted to earlier regarding the cracked canopy. Great news, I have a replacement courtesy of ixgr1

Seats/cockpit -painting started ... some weathering etc to go. Not too bad for kit parts

I tackled the top wing join before doing anything else - ignored instructions and glued top wing to fuselage before attaching lower wing. This ensured a pretty good fit

I repositioned the tailplanes to give it a little more character (hence the notes to self about which is left and right)

I basically built the thing backwards... everything I could except the cockpit was stuck together

I've started messing around trying to replicate the heat discolouration typical on the burner cans of operational aircraft.... haven't got there quite yet (oh, and should've painted inside first. Now I'll have to mask the outside!)

[pacific mustang]

Looking good Dave. Are there going to be regular updates like Micks blog?

Bruce

[nzdavidh]

Looking good Dave. Are there going to be regular updates like Micks blog? :lol:

Bruce

Yeah, that or the President's After Action Report <_<

[JP Vieira]

A very interesting bird and it should be a great build: keep it up

[nzdavidh]

Some progress shots... cockpit installed and nose section attached to fuselage. Wish I'd read StrikeEagle's post about not needing nose weights before I'd reached this point... I'll just have to pray the kit nosegear is fairly strong.

And a shot for comparative purposes... my 1/48 Hurricane is dwarfed by the Eagle

I've just noticed that intake is quite seated right... doh

[RedHeadKevin]

Careful with using marker to mark the tailplanes. If that's Sharpie, and you're painting with acrylic (not sure about enamel,) the paint might dissolve the sharpie, leaving weird purple blotches. Make sure to wipe the marker off the tail with some alcohol (dry-erase whiteboard cleaner works well) before you paint it.

[nzdavidh]

Careful with using marker to mark the tailplanes. If that's Sharpie, and you're painting with acrylic (not sure about enamel,) the paint might dissolve the sharpie, leaving weird purple blotches. Make sure to wipe the marker off the tail with some alcohol (dry-erase whiteboard cleaner works well) before you paint it.

Thanks. I tend to wipe models with spirits before painting anyway - which removes any markings I've added to aid construction and keys the surface for paint... those markings are already gone in the second bunch of photos.

[HOLMES]

Now that is so nice..the scribing is neat and your worfk is good.

[martin_sam_2000]

Thats a nice looking hurricane model you have. The local musuem has a hurricane under restoration to flying status that will be marked up in this shceme.

here is how she looks now:

and here is a link to the webpage about it

and now for soehtign related to this post..that is a great looking mudhen. I love the work youve done on the cockpit..very clean.

Sean

[nzdavidh]

Thats a nice looking hurricane model you have. The local musuem has a hurricane under restoration to flying status that will be marked up in this shceme.

Beautiful photo. Lets hope the museum paint the fuselage band and spinner sky not the light blue I used (after following the Aeromaster instructions). I just had a look through the website - some great photos there. Nice to see photographic proof a skeleton was painted on both sides of the aircraft - IIRC, Aeromaster were unsure about that, so left it to the builder to guess whether to apply the decals to both sides.

Edited July 4, 2010 by nzdavidh

[Honza K.]

very nice build men. How I´m looking for topics in this section I thing, that 2010 is year of strike eagles :-D

I wish you fun build. H

Edited July 4, 2010 by Honza K.