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

The progress since the last update.

The front landing gear, as it comes out of the box.












 After struggling with stretched sprue, copper wire and aluminium foil this is the result. Took me nearly 10 days, getting the strechted sprue onto the right places took a while.












 Masking the tail section.

The result.

The colors are from Vallejo :USAF Colors Gray Schemes from 70s to Present Model Air Paint Set, 70.615 - USN Light Ghost Primer and 71.120 - FS 36320 - Dark Ghost Gray.

And the  fuselage was done, for masking I used Tamiya Masking Tape for Curve 3mm, great product, but not suitable for very tight curves.

Thank you for reading.
Jan Remco 

Lockheed Martin F-16CJ Fighting Falcon

After having build 2 Kinetic F-16's this time I choose for a Tamiya one. Quite a difference with the Kinetic ones.

Tamiya use metal pins, for some of the weapons points, to make them changeable.

 The tail section is fitted wtih pins, these are fixed with some small screws.








 Very handy during the painting of the aircraft, less masking.

 The wheel area looks like the Kinetic.

Some panel lining on the fuel tanks.

The colors are from Vallejo 71156 Air Color Set USAF Colors "Gray Schemes"

Panel lines were done with Ecoline, black at the underside and white on the top. 

Thanks for looking.

Jan Remco

Vought F4U-1D Corsair

Finished another F4U-1D Corsair, this time was the kit supplied with a Moto-Tug. The first kit to be completed in 2016.
Still trying to learn weathering skills. For weathering I used Tamiya Weathering Master C-Set. Primary on the Moto-Tug, the propellor and the front side of the wings.
As always with Tamiya a real pleasure to build this kit.
The color is a mix from Vallejo Model Air 091 Insignia Blue and Model Color 522 Satin Varnish. 

 Together with the F4U-1D kitnumber 61061.

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

Update from 14 february 2016:







Done less since the last update than I wanted, instead I was reading Encyclopedia of Aircraft Modeling #1 "Cockpits" and #2 "Interiors" great books with a lot of photos and good detailed explanations.


Masked the area around the engines before getting the gungrey color.









Another fit issue, this time around the engine, the engine doesn't get far enough in the bay. I'll deal with this later. 







 The Python 3 missile.

On the left hydraulic cylinder for the airbrake and on the right together with the hydraulic piping, made from stretched sprue

The hydraulic piping attached to the cilinder.

 Thank you for reading.
Jan Remco

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

Update from 7 february 2016:







As written in my update form january 31nd, the Python 3 where painted and the Sparrow got the decals on.
Beside the weapons I had to redo the handles and still wasn't happy with the air inlets.

The rear fuselage section was joint with the cockpitt section, despite testfitting and grinding I still got a gap. To close this small gap I used some Evergreen and the Tamiya extra thin glue.

 Before









After closing the gap with Evergreen and some Vallejo Putty








After closing the gap with Evergreen and some Vallejo Putty

As written above I wasn''t happy with the air inlets. I managed to seperate the wrong glued parts, from the air inlet up and started all over. This time I test fitted the parts as seen below, but now with the cockpitt section in place. I think that this is the best way instead of following the instructions (sub assembling the air intakes first and than joining them with the airframe). The down side is that there isn't plenty of room.

Starting over with the first choice for the air inlets I found a mistake in the instructions.

The parts were I did start with were for the left side of the aircraft

This is H8 for the righthand side of the aircraft,
But the best fit (after trying both of the parts) is changing left for right and right for left.







Next updat will be with the painted and decaled weapons

A fun shot of a F-16 on top of the F-15, it is a massive beast compaired to the F-16.

Thank you for reading.
Jan Remco