Under construction: McDonnell Douglas F-15B "Eagle" Israeli Air Force

Update from 31 january 2016:






I have made little progress with the "Baz". The F-16C needed some attention as well.
The rear fuselage section was completed. and test fitting the speed brake.

In closed position there is a gap vissible.














 Below in open position and the hinge side is looking much better.

 I'll probably choose for the speed brake in open position.

As mentioned earlier I decided to get the avionics bays open, as a starter I drilled out the openings for the hatches.

And created some handles, while looking at the pictures I realize they are should be on the bottom and look a little to big. Some extra work.

In the avionics bay I wanted the do some wires. A horrible task, I wanted to do some more but I ran out of good drills. The best thing is to drill the holes through and glue the wire from the back side.

 After 2 days trying to get the wires in I left it as in the picture (and some wiring on the other side as well). May be it is easier with an electric drill device, as you have one hand free (I only have a pin fise).

The Python 3 are masked (no photo) and the painted Sparrows, with the biggest decal sheet, with decals for the missiles.

 Thank you for your time.
Jan Remco

Under construction: McDonnell Douglas F-15B "Eagle" Israeli Air Force

Update from 19 january 2016:








While searching for some good photos, how to paint the avionics and radar bay, I paid some attention to the weapons.

The weapons sets are seperately packed in blisters

The AIM-7 Sparrow.

 The Python 3.









And Python 4.









Below: the AIM-7 compared with a Kinetic AIM-120.

The color scheme for the AIM-7 provided by GWH is looking more for the AIM-120 a grey body. That's not what the Eagles were carrying. So it will be a white body with grey colored fins. As shown below.

The armament for my F-15B Baz, will be 4 AIM-7 Sparrows and 4 Pythons 3, as the Python 3 was used by the IAF during the early 80's.

The exhaust nozzles were painted with Vallejo Model Air (71072) Gun Metal. The upper was treated with Tamiya Weathering Master D Set, to give it a blue tint.

Thank you for reading.
Jan Remco

Under construction: McDonnell Douglas F-15B "Eagle" Israeli Air Force

Since the update from yesterday I got some time today to spend on the F-15.











As mentioned before I wanted the radar and electronics bay open. The radar disc was painted with Vallejo Model Color Brass (70801).

On the exhaust I drybrushed Vallejo Model Color Smoke (70939). I like the effect better than doing it with the airbrush, but I still have to get my way around with drybrushing.

The air intake tunnels were airbrushed white, but next time I'll glue the intakes in place first and than airbrush the tunnels. In that way the small area in front will be painted together with the tunnel. I discovered it while dryfitting.

The instrument panels took me most of the day. All the meters were decals. One decal, for one meter, it was a slow proces,I had to let the decals settle before putting another one on.

Below the cock pit tub placed on the front wheel bay and in the front section of the plane.

Now I have to find some pictures (in color) from the radar and open electronic bays. For this section GWH didn't provide any colorschemes.

Thank you for reading.
Jan Remco

Under construction: McDonnell Douglas F-15B "Eagle" Israeli Air Force

McDonnell Douglas F-15B "Eagle" part 2.

Got some work done the last days. Most of the time was lost by cleaning up the parts.



Trying out the fit of the intake tunnel and in combination with the engine.

The instructions aren't complete, in this case the instructions for the color aren't taken up.

Glued the first first items for the cockpit tub together and done some drybrushing on the panels.

Done the same with the front wheel area. 

 There is some flash in the air inlet sections.



















With this part I made a mistake, I didn't line up the outer parts correctly and it ended with a gap when trying to prefit.
As always at this moment the glue, worked very well. Change of plans, instead of the air inlet up I'll do them down

 

 Thank you for reading.

Under construction: McDonnell Douglas F-15B "Eagle" Israeli Air Force

The first new build for 2016.

It's the McDonnell Douglas F-15B "Eagle" from Great Wall Hobbies.
The kit I bought was supplied with the correction sets. So I have to take a close watch on the parts I use.
I decided to do an early F-15B Isreali one , due to the fact that the other decal sheets are for later F-15 models, and no AIM-120's were supplied with the kit. For the first time I will leave the radar and some avionic bays open, just need to buy a couple of Israeli RBF tags. I hope it will turn out great.

The first impression is that the box is filled up with parts.

The box art:

The build starts with the cockpit:

The parts need some cleaning up:

Looks like ejector marks.

And small pins.

The seats are provided with seatbelts, but thas about everything.

Beside the ejector marks, there is more to clean up:

In the circle an example how the parts are attached to the sprues. And results in:

Jan Remco