Eduard Limited Edition F15-C

[M1Carbine]

Well I have to jump around a bit. I don't like having more than one project at a time but I am on a time limit with this and have to dedicate myself to this build. This will be two commission pieces that will be presented at the end of April and I can let you know for whom they are at that time. One is to be built as if on the ground and one in flight.




This Eduard offering is the Academy plastic, with all the Eduard resin and PE goodies. I should have some shots up this evening after gathering some more info that I need.

Bob

[TRM]

Well there is nothing wrong with a good Eagle build!! Bring it on!!

[M1Carbine]

T - you got it and here we go.

Some shots of the Resin and PE goodies:



























Decal sheets:








So the first bit of PE for the rear avionics bay took me almost 4 hours. Thats just for one aircraft......remember I am building two of these at the same time. one in flight and one on the ground.

So we have our trusty PE tool, PE and the long yellow thingy is from an old knife sharpening tool. I use the coarse and fine ones to get the left over bits from the PE tree off the part, clean and fast.





First six folded:




A shot of the two different types with parts not yet cleaned up for the second aircraft:




Ok so now Im going to have a nice stiff freaking drink, I think I earned it................LOL

Bob

[Leon]

Count me in Bob.Off to a good start on the PE.

[venom1]

Nice! Will be following along with this little beauty....

Cheers,

Sam

[thug626]

Good morning brother,
Count me in for this one indeed! This is gonna be good. I picked up this same kit about a month ago. So, if you don't mind, I'll be taking some notes as you go.
Dave

[M1Carbine]

Leon - welcome my friend, a pleasure as always

Sam - pull up a chair mate

Dave my brother, better get a freaking note pad ready and some high magnification visors.

Ok so now I have roughly 15 hours just in the rear avionics bay, there is some real microscopic PE man and some minor mods to make stuff fit.

Micro crap, you can barely make the two pieces out on the head of the dime.



None of the lovely PE boxes fit, even if you clean the ribs out....it just wont happen.




I removed them and replaced with sheet styrene, its recessed enough in the back that it will not interfere with the CP to fuselage join:





BAM!




Most of the PE finished, just have to get the IP folded and in place after this is painted and detailed:










Thankfully one of the two for the client is in the flight config, so with the canopy closed, NONE of this is seen. Going to paint it up and have a detail session and see what it looks like.

Bob

[robbo]

Yup, great start mate, i'll pull up a chair next to jackwagon

[deafpanzer]

Plenty of PE... me like it!!!! Looking good Bob!

[M1Carbine]

Nemo - Glad to have ya

Ian - glad to have ya as well mate

Any - more than enough PE my friend.

Bob

[wbill76]

Making good progress there Bob, looking forward to this one!

[M1Carbine]

Thanks bill, more shots on the way

Bob

[venom1]

Great work with the PE so far Bob!

Cheers,

Sam

[M1Carbine]

Thanks Sam appreciate it mate

Bob

[chris0423]

Looking good Bob,will be watching this one come together.

Must add one of these to the stash !

Chris,

[dupes]

Jeeze, hope you're getting paid well!

Also hope you can skip most of this stuff for the in-flight build?

[M1Carbine]

Chris - The PE and the Eduard Resin are abso;utly beautiful. I have never seen such flawless castings.

Dupes - I considered skipping it but all the PE for the open canopy and flight model are intact.

More pics soon gents.

Bob

[M1Carbine]

Hi All;

So moving right along I had to modify the fuselage to accommodate the C variant sensor in the tail.






Before getting the halves together it was time for some more PE work........yes more. I attacked the IP and was able to complete that assembly.










After that I jumped over to the exhaust nozzles and resin assemblies. Got them all off the pour blocks and assembled the PE actuators.










Fuselage halves are now together and I am the process of sanding all this out, fit is pretty bad but Ill make it work. Ill have some more updates this weekend.

enjoy

Bob

[deafpanzer]

Great process especially the exhaust nozzles!!! Glad to see process here...

[thug626]

Good evening Brother Bob,
Some outstanding work here. I love the IP and the cans. More notes duly taken.

Dave

[M1Carbine]

Andy - thanks buddy

Dave - thanks my brother. You coming up for the show this weekend.

Bob

[wbill76]

Keep plugging away Bob, very nice!

[M1Carbine]

Bill - thanks buddy, appreciate it.

Bob

[fightnjoe]

looks pretty sharp from where i sit. very nice work.



joe

[robbo]

Instrument panel looks rather yummy

[M1Carbine]

Joe - thanks buddy

Robbo - thanks mate I appreciate it.

Mostly I have been sanding.....and sanding........and....well........sanding. The fit is pretty bad so lot of filling. I am at the final stages of that now after fitting the intake gates.

Nothing like a silver sharpie to pick out the bad stuff.


More filling needs to be done on the speed break, gaps are way to big


Intake gates, both have this horrific gap


This is not even the worst. The front portion of the fuselage had to be joined to the rest of the fuselage. There are NO alignment pins......nothing, they just butt up to one another. I spent a week sanding both out it was so bad.

Hopefully at some point this week I have some paint on them. stay tuned.

Bob

[TRM]

Sorry to hear/see the bad gap issues you are going through with this but your patience seem to have been paying off especially if you are talking paint!! Looking forward to it!!!

[M1Carbine]

T - thanks buddy, lot of work but its starting to shape up.

Bob

[deafpanzer]

Sorry I meant to comment earlier but I was distracted that cool cat shooing AK avatar... LOL They will come out great despite issues because you will remind them you a proud owner a carbine or two, right?

[thug626]

Good evening brother,
Egads! That air brake looks wonky. Not of your doing but, rather the kit itself. Anywho, if there's anyone who can whip this styrene into shape it's you. I've seen some of the abhorrent and unholy styrene you have straightened out and, this will be no exception.
Still taking notes.

Dave