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Academy F-15 E Strike Eagle 🦅 completed. Great kit. No fit issues. Highly recommended. Overall I'm pretty happy with how it came out. First time I tried a light color wash on a dark plane to pop out all the great surface details. I overdid the blend coat a bit right at the end and I shouldn't have put the bomb ordinance on until after the blend coat. I also should have masked off my engines so the flat coat didn't matte them down quite so much, but I am particularly proud of how good the canopy sealing and masking turned out! No overspray got inside and lines are tight! At this point it's time to STOP new kit construction and focus on kits that were started but never completed over the last few years due to life happening. The next project will be one familiar to long time readers here... It's time to finally finish off.. John Moscato's 1:72 Cat's Eye 🐈 👁️! This kit has lanquished faaaaar to long in the closet after several bad painting mishaps years ago. Time to get back to a little actual Macross modeling! 😁 Stay tuned!

Are you listening Arcadia???? I'd buy one!

@Papa Rat - Here's the link to Amazon for the stand Amazon.com: Stand for Model Airplanes for Display Making and Painting,Model Building Berth jig,Tray for Part of 1/72, 1/48(Grey+Swivel Base) : Arts, Crafts & Sewing Yes, it was a resin kit, my 2nd or 3rd, as I recall. I started out really small with a one-piece kit from Captain America, the tiny little Zentradi scout ship. From there I found about a 12 inch Super Star Destroyer which was only I think 2 parts along with the Zent flagship from a guy in Australia named Wayne Pugh who had some resin kits for sale on his website called Scale Solutions. It's still up but he no longer offers resin kits unfortunately! Highly recommend you do some watching of YouTube tutorials and or seek advice from the master himself @tekering from here before taking on high dollar larger resin kits! I think somewhere buried in the threads here I once typed up a basics "How To" guide for resin kits. Should still be in the forums somewhere, maybe I can dig it up. EDIT: - Found It!

WHOOOOAA!!! This thing is just on a whole other level!!!!..... All those microscopic fiber obtics....in a 3D printed model... How exactly?! I'm just amazed! Mad SKILLZ!

@Urashiman those Mac 7 figures look great! Good modeling time with the kid! @Papa RatHere you go my friend...My favorite capital ship from Macross/Robotech. The only problem is displaying it....doesn't fit in many cases 🤔 🤣

@Papa Rat - Thanks! It's been a GREAT kit! (minus the ridiculously waaaay to thin decals) As you are on a Zentradi kick.....I've got something you're GOING to want to see later on, hahaha...It's BIG and green! I got it years ago from a resin kit guy down in Australia...I'll post some pics this weekend. We just had flooring and painting done inside our house over the spring, so I'm just now getting around to carefully unpacking all my older kits and getting them back out on display with minimal snapped of little parts which I'm repairing as I go..... Stay Tuned!

Picked up this 3D printed 1:72 scale aircraft fully adjustable stand on Amazon for $35 on sale. Will definitely make life easier! The Strike Eagle 🦅 is almost ready for prime time! Should be able to finish it up this weekend!

So cool 😎

@Papa RatI can contribute to this! There has been at least one built up on here about 10 years ago! 😁

Absolutely incredible @tekering! Can not WAIT to see it painted up and on display! All your hard work and dedication to the hobby and material is evident here!

This thing is SO FUGLY and tragically sad looking it's almost cute, like an old little blind dog with two teeth that you can't help but love (I should know, I have one) 😂

This shall SOON be on my bench when it's released and I can get my hands on it to complete the 1/144 trio of The BUFF, The Bone and this BAD BOY!

I've only got 3 1/6 Hot Toys figures, Vader ANH, Luke ROTJ, and the newest Vader ROTJ. I agree, they aren't perfect, BUT in the right lighting and pose, the new ROTJ Vader is definitely a great display piece! The pleather will crack and fade in time, but some of their newer stuff they are getting better with materials as well as the head sculpts are massively improving from the reviews I watch. I would love to get Baylon, but I'm OUT of display space. 6" Black Series figs will have to do! 😂

Damn, I hope they sell that Ep III Anakin and Obi Wan as regular releases! Those look great!

Yeeeeeh, I don't care, I AM going to see this NO MATTER WHAT the reviews say! 😂 Bring it on!

Ahhh yes, I remember that stage of this build for sure! (and the legs, and the feet, and the arms....)😆

Another very simple solution I've been using lately (especially on modern kits with VERY tight tolerances), use Tamiya Extra Thin cement to "soften" the peg and especially the receiving hole for a few seconds. Like old Dad told me one time ....."a little lubrication helps everything son" - He wasn't wrong....😂

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@wm cheng - Agreed! It was perfect on Yamato's VF-11's.....😉

Early Sunday AM decal session yesterday with the Academy F-15E with my furry little helper....😺. So.....the very 1st "SJ" tail marking decal literally disintergrated upon application. I really DON'T like Cartograph decals...yeh there're nice and thin...to thin for my liking, and I've done a LOT of decals over the years. FYI, they DON'T like Micro-SOL! STEAR CLEAR! Micro Set is just fine once you lay them down, but Micro Sol on the surface = ruined decals! Anyway, after that everything went fine. Had to go online and track down an aftermarket sheet of Strike Eagle decals with that "SJ" tail marking out of Australia, so they'll be here eventually......Only about a million more microscopic stencil aircraft markings to go...

That's a KEEPER right there!!! 💕

I wish HM-R would give us ANYYYYTHIINNNGG SDF-Macross again....😟

WHOA!!!

@Papa Rat Man that little oldie turned out really nice! Over here boring ordinance painting for the Strike Eagle 🦅 and Airwolf is coming right along! 😂

It's the newer Academy 1/72 release #12550 "333rd Fighter Squadron" Great kit. Newer mold, everything fits 99% perfect. In other news over the weekend I wanted to start my 1/72 Academy AH-64D Apache just for doing the cockpit. I wanted to do 3D cockpit decals and pilots, so Quinta Studios had the 3D decal set and good old PJ Productions had actual AH-64 pilots, so with a little hacking off of feet and other lower bits....🤣 Here's the finished product....Might add a little silver dry brushing but other than that, that's about as much as I'm willing to put into it at 1/72 scale!