F-15I (W.I.P.)

Greg Baker
Looking good so far.

Adam Gudynowski
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Treehugger
What is going on with the canopy?

Greg Baker
I've been studying that too. Best I can come up with is... vacu-formed plug. I await the reveal...

Marco Preto
The front canopy part has an air bubble and indeed, I am preparing it to be the "master" for a vac-form canopy. I will try to share more soon (but worling at home with two small todlers does not leave a lot of relaxing time at the modeling bench).
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Greg Baker
Oh, Marco. I've seen that website of yours... Very impressive stuff. I'm following his one intently.

Marco Preto
Thank you Greg! I am glad you're liking my little blog!
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Nathan Dempsey
Ooh another 144 F-15. I'll take a seat.

Marco Preto
My atemps to vac-form a new canopy did not work (I have to revise my (improvised) vac-forming setup! I ended up geting the brengun vacformed canopy! I hope to post more soon!

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Marco Preto
Thank you Joshua. I've used Mr.Color lacquers (the light green is my mixture, but the earth and sand colours are straight from the bottle (just heavily diluted with their thinner).
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Marco Preto
The exhaust nozzles were glued in place. Getting closer to completion.
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Marco Preto
Decal application will be next!

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Marco Preto
Hi Joshua:
I do sometimes. The decals I will be using are from a Chinese manufacturer and for those I usually try out Mr Mark Setter and Softer first. I use Micro Set and Micro Sol when decals are more fragile.
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Marco Preto
Hi Joshua:

Here's a photo of the decal sheet ([img1]), directly from the ebay page where I bough it. The quality is not the best; the color register are a bit off and the used printer leaves very noticeable dots of color (instead of a continuous film of color, that we can find in better quality decals). But it was the only option I found to depict aircraft #267!

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Marco Preto
They are Israeli markings indeed!
The attached profile is for the aircraft I am trying to model (the profile is from the Isradecal book on the F-15I Ra'am).
[img1]
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Marco Preto
Decal application completed!

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Marco Preto
Almost completed! I still need to add some heavier staining around the exhaust nozzles.
I hope to complete it soon.
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LucLuke B
Look really nice and clean. You must have spent a long time on that canopy.

Marco Preto
This little model was finally completed! I added a new album in this project folder with the photos of the finished model.
I hope you like it.
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