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

[Mr Bowcat]

Thanks Jim, although I'm not sure you will learn much from me.

[colin m]

This is looking great. The Revell has some proper detail. Do you know, is it Revell through and through or a re-box ?

[Mr Bowcat]

Cheers Colin.

I believe it is pure Revell, although looking at the Scalemates timeline it does appear it's been re-boxed my other manufacturers. https://www.scalemates.com/products/...753&p=timeline

I glued the fans in to the intakes yesterday, I think they look OK. Just got to figure out how to mask off the white part of the intakes before I spray the exterior colour, I'm thinking it's probably worth doing this now before the intakes are glued in.

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[Mr Bowcat]

Work continues at a fairly slow pace, I've got another build on the go at the moment which is taking more of my time.

Got the nose and fuselage glued up, although still not together. Also painted up the resin bang seats and got them installed in the tub.

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[Snowman]

Nice work! Building like a pro!:thumb2:

[Mr Bowcat]

Cheers Gavin.

[flyjoe180]

Super work so far Bob. I like those ejection seats, very nice.

[Mr Bowcat]

Cheers Joe.

Yes, the Aries seats are very nice, and quite cheap too. Shame you don't see much of them once installed.

[colin m]

Aries seats

Just for a moment I thought they were Revell - I WAS gobsmacked.

[Mr Bowcat]

The kit ones weren't actually that bad, but at 6 odd quid for the pair I couldn't resist the resin jobbies.

[papa 695]

That's looking very nice Bob.

[Mr Bowcat]

Cheers.

I'm getting closer to connecting the nose to the fuselage. Just a few small jobs to finish, first of which was the HUD.

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Next was prepping the canopy and frame. It's the first time I've had to remove a centre seam, I'd say it was semi sucesfull. There's still a few marks but it's going to be modelled up so I can live with it. I also painted the frame up, this just needs the mirrors painted on to the hoop, then it can be glued to the canopy, masked and temporarily glued down for painting.

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I then decided to attach the wings, and this is when things went downhill.

Here's the left side, not too bad, just a bit of filling.

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Here's the right side.

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I wasn't completely sure what to do with this, so my solution was to glue some plasticard onto the flap section that I can shape when dry. I will probably do the same with thinner card for the upper portion, then fill whatever gap is left.

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[Fernando N]

Hi Bob, just had a nice read trough catching up.
Very nice looking office and intake work.:thumb2:
Good luck with the starboard wing gap....

Fernando

[Mr Bowcat]

Cheers Fernando.

The repair seems to be going ok, I got the flap section sanded down and glue more card into the other areas. I'll trim and sand those tomorrow.

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Also got the front of the canopy glued on, and the rear glued to the frame.

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[Guest]

Nice recovery!