Bowcat's 1/48 Revell F-15E Strike Eagle

[RM6239]

Bob
Great start in the office mate.

cheers
Ross

[Mr Bowcat]

Cheers Ross. :smiling3:

Got the pit finished tonight, sans bang seats. Not going to see much of it once installed. :sad:

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[RM6239]

Bob
Great result on the cockpit mate, looking forward to more.
cheers
Ross

[Ian M]

That office is busier than the tax office at the start of the tax year.
Great work Bob.

[Guest]

Incredible detail at that scale. I love the Mudhen.

[Mr Bowcat]

Cheers guys.

I got a little bit done on the intakes today, will post some pics tomorrow if I get them finished.

I've set my sights high with these, never done them before and attempting to make them seamless. :smiling6:

If it doesn't work the FOD covers will be closed.

[flyjoe180]

Very nice work Bob. Good luck with the seamless intake trunks

[Steve Jones]

Bob
I'm not a wingy person but you have done a wonderful job on this kit. I really enjoyed reading through your blog
Steve

[Mr Bowcat]

Cheers guys. :smiling3:

So, I'm calling the intakes a partial success. This was the progress from rough filling, through sanding and paint.

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There is no seam, but a few small divots that I think were bubbles. More of an issue is that there's a bit of a paint build up at the circular end (they were hung up circle end down) which I think is because the paint was too thick.

I'm going to model them with the covers open though, I think when the fans are installed and it's darker down that end in shouldn't show too much.

I didn't get much else done this weekend as the weather was too nice to be stuck indoors, but I did get some weight glued in to the nose, and also installed the landing gear in the nose bay (this has to be installed before the bay/cockpit are fitted to the nose.

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[flyjoe180]

That'll look okay inside the model once assembled Bob. It's an odd shape too looking at it, not like you could have used card, so nice work

[papa 695]

Just caught up on this one Bob, the office and wheel wells look great. And a great job on the intake too.

[Mr Bowcat]

Cheers guys.

[Ian M]

You are giving it big as usual. Great work.

[Mr Bowcat]

Go big or go home Ian. :smiling5:

[Jim R]

Hi Bob
Looking very good indeed. Watching and learning.
Jim