F15A Eagle

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February 18, 2013
What's in the box
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February 18, 2013
What's in the plastic
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February 18, 2013
Primed and pre-shade wash
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February 18, 2013
Body glued together
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February 18, 2013
Looks good so far...
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February 18, 2013
And the other side.
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February 18, 2013
First coat of white, and let's be honest:
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February 18, 2013
This looks terrible with no hope of improvement with a second coat.
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February 18, 2013
So I removed all the paint with Windex. "Use in well ventilated area." Surely a small kitchen counts as such?
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February 18, 2013
Second try, white coat of paint. This looks a lot better. Those darn panel lines can forget about a darker shade!
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February 18, 2013
Mask and paint. See the photo for the difference between Vallejo and Revell Aqua paint.
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February 18, 2013
Revell paint is much thinner, and thus seeps through the cracks a lot more.
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February 18, 2013
Revell Aqua paint: They don't lie, there's a lot of aqua in their paint!
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February 18, 2013
Touched up the white paint and added decals.
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February 18, 2013
The other side with decals.
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February 18, 2013
And the end result: Eternal lift-off. I forget to add a weight in the nose. There was no mention of this in the manual, either.
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February 18, 2013
Top of the plane.
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February 18, 2013
Bottom of the plane.
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February 18, 2013
And a side shot. Later on I'll try to make a scenery for this model, so that I can glue the front wheel on the ground.