Well shoot, life is funny. With the best intentions last December I started posting again to this blog then a few days ago while looking for aircraft photos on Google I came across an image I had posted and looked back here and realized that I hadn't posted anything in 8 months. That plus I had finally cleaned up my shop building and had moved much to my wife's relief , I think, my model stuff out to the shop from our bedroom where it had been cluttering up a desk and occupying a large part of the floor space. In the course of this I re-discovered my 1/144 scale Academy F-15 and F-4E model kits that I started this blog with With that I present the following as a kind of return to the beginning...
After cleaning up my shop and moving my model stuff, I started fiddling with my model kits and opened up the Academy F-15 Eagle kit and just started working on it. Without realizing it in couple of hours I had the model pretty well put together and had started painting it. I've worked on it a little each day this week sometimes only 10-15 minutes and thought I'd go ahead and post some pics of my progress. I'm not promising anything after the starts and fits I've had writing this blog. But I am feeling good about my progress so far and want to see this one through.
So this is where I finished on day 1 model pretty well put together and a coat of Light Ghost Gray on, the engine area painted silver per the kit instructions and the cockpit (no detail just a blank area) painted Charcoal Gray.
So this is day 3. I got the canopy glued on, the framing masked and painted, the top area painted with Dark Ghost Gray per kit instructions, and the engine exhaust "cans" painted and installed.
Also, I found the LaGG-3 with Ivan and Victor that I had started on back in December and worked on a couple of the seams that needed to be puttied up.
And made a little progress.
Also made a little progress on the F-15
Scraped seams on AIM-7 Sparrow missiles and glued to match sticks for painting
Painted wheels, I'm going to need to retouch these.
and
painted landing gear.
After cleaning up my shop and moving my model stuff, I started fiddling with my model kits and opened up the Academy F-15 Eagle kit and just started working on it. Without realizing it in couple of hours I had the model pretty well put together and had started painting it. I've worked on it a little each day this week sometimes only 10-15 minutes and thought I'd go ahead and post some pics of my progress. I'm not promising anything after the starts and fits I've had writing this blog. But I am feeling good about my progress so far and want to see this one through.
So this is where I finished on day 1 model pretty well put together and a coat of Light Ghost Gray on, the engine area painted silver per the kit instructions and the cockpit (no detail just a blank area) painted Charcoal Gray.
So this is day 3. I got the canopy glued on, the framing masked and painted, the top area painted with Dark Ghost Gray per kit instructions, and the engine exhaust "cans" painted and installed.
Also, I found the LaGG-3 with Ivan and Victor that I had started on back in December and worked on a couple of the seams that needed to be puttied up.
And made a little progress.
Also made a little progress on the F-15
Scraped seams on AIM-7 Sparrow missiles and glued to match sticks for painting
Painted wheels, I'm going to need to retouch these.
and
painted landing gear.
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