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This is the Great Wall Hobby 1/48 F-15C Eagle of the 104th FW. Pictures of the 104th birds show them all very clean...not my style so much. I like at least a bit of wear if it can be justified. So I tried to weathering the aircraft in the midrange for that of an Eagle. It's dirty for a 104th FW aircraft, but reasonable for an F-15C in service.

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Thanks for looking. Comments and criticism welcome.

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Thank you all for the comments. Regarding the two questions...

1. I used Vallejo. The gray was straight 71.050 (can't remember the name) +/- white or black for shading. The blue/gray was a "Sea Gray" (opposite, can't remember the number) lightened with almost 50% white and with a drop or two of blue added. I did a lot of shading, so I had a mix written down (9:6:1, Sea gray:white:blue), but didn't stress too much about different batches of paint.

2. I had a hard time judging the contrast between colors myself. The 104th FW birds seemed to have a pretty stark contrast between the light gray and blue gray. So I went with this. However, I don't know if this contrast might be related to how clean those birds are, as I definitely found pictures from other units with much less contrast.

An example of a 104th FW bird from airliners.net (link, as I think that's the only way I can do it safely for copyright):

http://www.airliners.net/photo/USA---Air/McDonnell-Douglas-F-15C/2124313/L/&sid=23ba5fc9d6918626038969bd3817edb8

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2. I had a hard time judging the contrast between colors myself. The 104th FW birds seemed to have a pretty stark contrast between the light gray and blue gray. So I went with this. However, I don't know if this contrast might be related to how clean those birds are, as I definitely found pictures from other units with much less contrast.

An example of a 104th FW bird from airliners.net (link, as I think that's the only way I can do it safely for copyright):

http://www.airliners.net/photo/USA---Air/McDonnell-Douglas-F-15C/2124313/L/&sid=23ba5fc9d6918626038969bd3817edb8

Thanks ESzczesniak.

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That looks real nice. I know what you mean about weathering, I can't build them clean either. I have one of these and plan on an Oregon ANG bird, but am a little intimidated by the kit. How was the build?

All the best

Brad

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