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This is the result
of seeing the box photo of the model at www.hlj.com.
The moment I saw it, I ordered it, when it arrived I stopped all my projects and
finished the model. Maybe I got bored from all the greys, surely Japanese people
know how to paint their F-15's.
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It's the
Hasegawa model with Eduard interior and exterior sets and an Aires resin
AcesII seat. I didn't use any resin cockpit sets, because I had a spare
Aires seat and the kit has a reasonably detailed cockpit. After adding the
details which Eduard provides, there were no need for a cockpit set.
www.f-15j.com
was helpful on finding the pictures of the real plane, it has pictures of
almost every F-15J.
Some of the details
provided by Eduard are not very visible on the finished model, but I
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| This time I
attached the vertical stabilizers before I paint the model, filled the
gaps and sanded the join smooth. This is often overlooked by F-15 models,
(including on my previous F-15E), maybe because it is much easier to paint
the stabilizers before attaching them to the fuselage. |
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Here the model is painted
freehand, gloss coated and it's ready to decalling. Putting the decals
on a gloss coated model is the most entertaining part of modeling in my
opinion. I use distilled water for
decalling to prevent lime stains on the model. Painting the freehand camo
was easy on this model, because the demarcations on the real plane is
not tight.
Painting was done with mixed
Tamiya acrylics.
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After the decal job, I gloss
coated the model again, put a matte coat, weathered it using chalk
pastel dust and washes, put another matte coat to protect the
weathering, and finally masked and painted the exhaust area using
Testors steel.
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