{"id":184,"date":"2014-09-20T13:29:07","date_gmt":"2014-09-20T11:29:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.raikisan.at\/blog\/?p=184"},"modified":"2018-12-23T13:01:33","modified_gmt":"2018-12-23T11:01:33","slug":"done-revell-148-f-15e-strike-eagle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.raikisan.at\/blog\/2014\/09\/20\/done-revell-148-f-15e-strike-eagle\/","title":{"rendered":"Done: Revell 1\/48 F-15E Strike Eagle"},"content":{"rendered":"

Having been out of production for quite some time, I was happy when last year I found that kit in my LHS (of course, two weeks after I finished the build, Revell re-released it…). It is a lovely kit, nice level of detail, especially the cockpit is really good, even the seats are okay. Ish. Of course there is always room for improvement, so I added some oxygen hoses and scratchbuilt the ejection seat rails. The seats themselves are Quick Boost.<\/p>\n

The only thing missing out of the box is a proper weapons load. As the E version’s sole purpose is to haul ridiculous amounts of ordnance through the sky, it needs a good heavy load to look the part. I went for GBU-12s and CBUs, courtesy of Hasegawa’s weapons sets.<\/p>\n

Way too late I noticed that the decals provided are basically for a trainer aircraft of the 57th Wing from Nellis AFB – so no Desert Storm bird this time, I guess. Anyway, I think it is safe to assume that these planes are maintained to a very high standard, weathering was therefore kept to a minimum. To spice the Gunship Grey monotony up a bit, I scratchbuilt some protective covers and used Eduard’s RBF tags.<\/p>\n

\"IMG_8551\"<\/a> \"IMG_8552\"<\/a> \"IMG_8557\"<\/a> \"IMG_8559\"<\/a> \"IMG_8568\"<\/a> \"IMG_8569\"<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Having been out of production for quite some time, I was happy when last year I found that kit in my LHS (of course, two weeks after I finished the build, Revell re-released it…). It is a lovely kit, nice level of detail, especially the cockpit is really good, even the seats are okay. Ish. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2,4,63,62,17,64,32],"class_list":["post-184","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-allgemein","tag-2","tag-aircraft","tag-eagle","tag-f-15","tag-jet","tag-revell","tag-usaf"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.raikisan.at\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.raikisan.at\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.raikisan.at\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.raikisan.at\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.raikisan.at\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=184"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.raikisan.at\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":191,"href":"http:\/\/www.raikisan.at\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184\/revisions\/191"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.raikisan.at\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=184"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.raikisan.at\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=184"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.raikisan.at\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=184"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}