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1/72 F-15E Strike Eagle by Revell (Hasegawa)


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Work done (already weeks ago), but today clean skies and pleasant temperatures (more or less) gave me the chance to shoot some pictures of the finished bird:

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HAJO

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  • 2 years later...

I´m restarting this thread, since I just began a second F-15E!

This time I use the original Hasegawa kit, but in a new boxing with new parts. These contain the necessary parts to make a "real" F-15E.

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HAJO

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Have to apologize, didn´t do much writing here, although I just finished the first coat of the final grey. But until then I went this way:

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Dumb me forgot to check the plan for the original "E", which resulted in mounting the wrong small pylons on the FAST-tank. Well, it´s not too obvious, although now everybody knows... ;)

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Some areas pre-painted to check for necessary touch-ups and to piant areas that are harder to reach with a brush.

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Overall I have to say that the new parts for the improved kit are very good!

HAJO

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Hups, already done! :)

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I had bought a set by Hi Decal-Lines some years ago I was planning to use here. I applied these decals on the fins, but was pretty unhappy with the result, as they were quite thick and reacted strangely with Decal Solution, resulting in grey smere-marks. Finally I remembered having a set of 57th Aggressor-Eagles in my spares and used them on the rest of the aircraft.

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As load-out I choses what F-15E.net described as "Operation Enduring Freedom - Loadout #2". It consists of a GBU-15, the necessary AN/ZSW-1 IDLP-Data Pod to guide the GBU-15 and a GBU-24. Thy typcial defensive A-A-loadout is reduced to two AIM-9Ls on the side of the GBU-15, since their fins would interfere with the AIM-120.

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I made the GBU-15 using an old GBU-8 from the Italeri F-15E-kit. So in this build again some parts from that old vintage kit were used!

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More pictures taken with natural lighting and the other F-15E from page one in the upcoming days!

HAJO

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Thanks, although, by looking at the dates of my pictures, the first shots were taken on february 9th and the last one on the 28th.

But you´re quite right, I´m not a very patient builder. ;)

HAJO

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Thanks, although, by looking at the dates of my pictures, the first shots were taken on february 9th and the last one on the 28th.

But you´re quite right, I´m not a very patient builder. wink.gif

HAJO

Augh!!! Oh well, counting was never one of my strong suits...

Good job anyway!

Russ

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Not sure the 57th Wing flies any Strike Eagles, even less during OEF or OIF.

That might have deserved a wait to get some proper Strike Eagle decals. ;)/>

I´m sure that this load-out was on a different bird, but this time I combined it with a 57th Strike Eagle.

HAJO

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