1/32 Revell F-15B-4-MC

by Stephen Cornett

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After a lot of hair pulling and beating my head against a wall I've finally finished this big bird.  I must say that this build has been very challenging.  I had originally planned on build the Tamiya kit and this kit at the same time, but the Revell kit turned out to be a bit more involved.  I used the Tamiya kit for a detail reference and added the proper surface detail to the the Revell kit then focused on finishing the Tamiya kit. 
I spent a number of hours looking over the Revell kit and reference material for the F-15 and found that the only way to build the Revell kit correctly was as the F-15B-4 Strike Eagle Prototype aircraft #71-0291.  F-15B-4-MC was the second of two F-15B prototypes that was used by the McDonnell Douglas company for demonstration of a proposed dual role fighter with FAST Pack conformal fuel tanks and LANTIRN pod. This aircraft became the development aircraft for F-15E Strike Eagle.

 

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The Tamiya kit lent a number of spare parts toward building this kit.  The seats, MERs and MK20s all came from the Tamiya kit.  
 

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For the burner cans I used resin cans from Cutting Edge Modelworks.  And for the canopy I used a photo etch set from Model Technologies and done a little scratch building.

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The paint scheme for this aircraft is an overall "European 1" camouflage. 

 
The load out is 22 MK20 Rockeye Cluster Bombs carried on the wing, CFT and centerline pylons and 4 Aim 9Ls carried on the wings.
Stephen 

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Photos and text © by Stephen Cornett