1/48 Revell F-15E (Part 2)

Gallery Article by Uncle Rick Chin of Uncle Bills Hobby

 

Here's the second part of Uncle Rick Chin's article on the building of the new 1/48 Revell F-15E.  In this part, Uncle Rick shows us how he went about painting the stock Revell exhaust burner cans as well as lowering the flaps.  We last left Uncle Rick as he was finishing off the cockpit.  He's progressed quite quickly on his F-15E.  The cockpit is finished, the forward fuselage halves are glued together around the cockpit/nose gear and the upper and lower main fuselage sections are glued together with the forward fuselage section.  One thing he did notice was  the fit of the front section of the fuselage and the main body had a bit of a step, but it was easy to sand down to get the proper look and fit.  He also has both engine intakes assembled and the insides painted.  

Another thing Uncle Rick did was use a razor blade to score the flaps and bend them into a slightly dropped position.  This "trick" was quick and easy and required no filling.  According to Uncle Rick's reference photos, the speed brake does not sit quite flush with the fuselage, so it appears from initial test fitting that Revell got the speed brake just right in look and fit. 

 

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Next came the job of the burner cans.  Uncle Rick had some excellent reference photos, so it was with these that he chose the colours from his hobby shop (Uncle Bills Hobby) of Pollyscale Russian yellow-brown and burntmetal for the inside of the burner cans.  Along with grimmy black and Testors  metallizer burnt metal mixed together to get the burnt look on the inside of the petals, and finishing off with a dry brushing of steel coloured paint.

He finished off the burner cans with the 15 rods that ring the exterior of each burner can.  The exteriors with the rods installed were then painted and dry brushed to highlight the detail.  The end result is very convincing.  

Uncle Rick Chin

      

Photos and text © by Uncle Rick Chin