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Revell 1/48 F-15E Mudhen OIF "Shangri La II" FINISHED!


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She’s done!  I started this project right around Christmas time last year, so it’s taken me nearly a full year to get it done.  I probably could have finished it much sooner if I hadn’t gone down the rabbit hole of fixing some of the panel lines and adding rivets.  As it turns out, is probably the heaviest model I’ve completed, partly because the bombs and drop tanks are solid resin!  So far, the landing gear is holding up though.  You might notice that I forgot to add the two small probes behind the nose gear in the middle of taking photos, but they’re on there now. 

 

Progress thread is here:

 

 

 

On to the photos:


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Thanks for looking!

Drew
 

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Wow, stunning work. I was going to sell my Promodeler F-15E and replace it with a GWH F-15E but after seeing your build I think I will keep it.

 

Love the grease throwing off the control surfaces! I’m very familiar with that on our Hornets.

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Thanks guys!  The Revell kit can still hold it's own.  I don't think the GWH kit is much of an improvement.  It's main advantage is that it includes upgrades that the Eagle has received over the past 10-15 years.

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I must live under a rock.  I never even saw this   : )    All I can say is that I really envy your weathering skills.   They're really like scaled-down jets -- like zapped-down real aircraft -- because of the detailed weathering.  Mind if I ask how you do your model photography?   I often use a phone but the weathering and tonal variations are often not captured maybe because of the limited dynamic range of phone cameras?   Then I moved to DSLRs but it's a bit harder to control the depth of field so keep coming back to the phone.   What's your setup like?

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