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2. These earlier photo's have been added here to show some
of the details not readily apparent on the completed model. |
3. This photo shows the Ejection Seat, wheels, avionics bay
doors, pylons and afterburner assemblies. |
4. Here we see the detail put into the rear cockpit area.
This area is later covered up by the canopy assembly seen to the right
in this photo. |
5.
Another view of those afterburner cans before assembly.
The details of the avionics bays show up well in this photo. |
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6. Another quarter view of the semi-painted and part-assembled F-15C. |
7. Compare this photo to later shots of the
same area. The panel lines have not been emphasised with a black wash
yet. No decals have been applied either. It is interesting to note how
much like a toy it looks without these subtle touches. |
8. Another close-up of those wheels. The tyre colour is
actually Xtracolour Tyre Black which is not quite black. The dark washes
on the ejection seat really bring out the detail... |
9.
Here is our first view of
the completed Hasegawa 1/48th scale F-15C Eagle built during November,
December and January 2002/2003. The markings are for a machine from the
114th FS/173rd FW. This is an Air National Guard unit. |
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10. This scheme is for the
"Mod Eagle" colours. The ladder is from the kit. The open
avionics doors are made from photo-etched copper plate which is
difficult to bend to shape unless the surface is continuous otherwise it
bulges. |
11. The cockpit was detailed
with a resin ejection seat and various other items from the Verlinden
"F-15C Eagle Super Detail Set". Additional details are made up
from pieces of scrap, fuse wire and RBF tags from PPAeroparts. |
12. All details were added
with reference to the Verlinden Lock On book for the F-15C. Here we see
one of the open avionics bays for the Radar. These parts are made up
from resin accessories from the Verlinden super-tech set. |
13. The Doors here are made
from the Verlinden photo-etched metal. The interior green was airbrushed
on with the details added by brush. A combination of Humbrol and
Xtracolour enamels were used with a thin wash of acrylic black paint to
bring out the details. |
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14. The finished item is quite
effective even if quite difficult to put together. Verlinden, like other
resin/metal superdetail sets presents several challenges even to the
most experience modeller and the fit of these parts could have been
better. |
15. The nose undercarriage leg
has a PPAeroparts Remove Before Flight (RBF) Tag attached. The stencils
on the fuselage are from a set of decals by "Tiger Wings". |
16. The main undercarriage also has a RBF tag
and info panels from pieces of black decal. The writing is touched in
from blobs of white paint applied with a cocktail stick. A black wash of
thinned acrylic is in the wheel hubs. |
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The finished item is quite
effective even if quite difficult to put together. Verlinden, like other
resin/metal superdetail sets presents several challenges even to the
most experience modeller and the fit of these parts could have been
better. |
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18. Details on the exterior were supplied by
Eduard and mostly included the various vents you see. These were cut out
from the plastic kit part during the assembly before the photo-etched
replacement was super-glued in place. Tricky! |
19. Here we see some of those
Eduard vents in detail. An Eduard interior detail set was also purchased
but most of it was not used because of the superior parts in the
Verlinden super-tech set. Eduard "Express Masks" were tried
when painting the canopy but they failed to impress as they fitted quite
poorly and better results are possible with tape and PVA glue in the
conventional manner. |
20. The Flaperons were cut out and lowered to
match published photo's of the real aircraft at rest. The exhaust
nozzles were completely replaced by the excellent units from Aires
although it is a shame that the Turkey Feathers were still moulded on.
Mark was unable to find any after-market accessory that showed the
nozzles realistically. He tried Cutting Edge Exhaust Nozzles but these
were no better. However, they were used later on a couple of F-16 kits. |
21. Another view of the results of that
Verlinden superdetail set. Applying those shark teeth over these various
cut out doors was quite a challenge. They were temporarily fixed in
place during fixing of the decals. Then a sharp knife cut out the decals
when in place. The entire model was airbrushed in Xtracolour Enamels
with the camouflage pattern being masked off with paper masks cut from
scale plans enlarged on a photocopier. |
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22. An overall view of the underside of the
completed kit. The natural metal areas are covered in Bare Metal Foil.
The weathering is done with oil pastel dust in brown and black. This
photo also betrays its January origin - you can see the snow on the
ground outside. The model is being held in its creator's hands when this
photo was taken. |
23. These next few photo's
were taken in December 2004 to illustrate how this model looks after it
was finally placed on its display base. A Name Plate has been added too. |
24. The Base perfectly
complements the model although its seems a little undersize in
retrospect! The base is identical in size to the one used with the F-4E
elsewhere on this web site. The F-4E Phantom II fits perfectly within
the confines of its Base. This illustrates just how big an aeroplane the
F-15C Eagle is in comparison to its predecessor. |
25. The Name plate reads
"F-15C Eagle - Oregon ANG, Johnny "Snake" Adkisson, 114th
FS/173rd FW, Kingsley Field AB 2001". |
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26. A couple more views...
There is a large number of assorted modern Ground Equipment items that
will join this Model in future. |
27. As soon as we update our
little diorama we shall bring the photo's to you here. |
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