Project V/25

Revell F-15E Strike Eagle

Santa brought me both a Panzer Aces set of paints and surprisingly, a 1:72-scale F-15 that I had wished for, and this was a subtype E. I didn't mind the config myself, and this was the first of the three F-15s I wanted to implement a funny (to me) idea.

This multimodel main project affected how I was going to handle the documentation of this first plane.

Most probably I'd go with a build, cockpit painting, and the priming, maybe even the basecoating of the plane would be included in IV/25, then it would be stored until the other two would have reached the same stage. At that point, with the triplet in the place where they'd diverge, I could do the actual paintjob as its own subproject.

Optionally I'd do this one from start to finish but just skip sharing the paintjob until I was far enough with the others. Some basics I would need to paint in a recognized and proper way anyway, like the titanium engine cowlings and whatnot.

Instructions

On a cursory glance the coloured instructions were pretty clear, I appreciated the colours supporting the A-Z flags. Especially the colouring of the weaponry was a very nice detail. Was I going to bother following those? We'd see.

Bits

There were three transparent pieces this time, the canopy bits and the collector plate for the HUD. Maybe I ought to paint the sides with a coloured wash instead of doing them black. I had to look into that stuff, as I had no clue right now.

All I could say about these was that they looked like pieces of an airplane.