Tamiya 1/48 F-117 Completed

[smokeriderdon]

OK folks, here she is. Kit was awesome as is to be expected with Tamiya. Painting is rather easy. Flat black. Done. LOL As I mentioned, no weathering. They didnt allow these planes to get dirty at all. The Caracal decals were fantastic. Also to be expected. And not a lot of them. Again, not much on these planes. That whole stealth thing ya know.

[Stokesy44]

Nice finish and a great reminder of how radical a design the F117 was.

[digger303]

Nice finish and a great reminder of how radical a design the F117 was.

It looks great and it always does my head in how this with all the sharp flat sides can be invisible to radar. I would have thought it would be more visible. Let alone how it manages to fly the air flow must be crazy.

[Engine95]

That looks amazing. Ever thought about putting her on a little runway vignette? I know I saw recently that somebody makes one. Just a little assembly and then concrete paint. Or maybe someone made it out of about 200 grit sandpaper then airbrushed it. My memory is failing me.

[smokeriderdon]

Its gonna get hung in my big display cabinet. This is my 70th completed model. A few have bases, but I dont have room to do that for many.

[DRUMS01]

Nice clean build. You say it was easy, but that is the trick sir; to make a rather plain build with little decals or complex paint schemes look really good it mighty good modeling skills I would say.

From the little available to read about them, they say without all the computer aides that flying one of these by sheer pilot skills is impossible.

[BigWall]

Very nice! I've always wanted to build one with the upper surface painted camouflage as can be seen in a couple photos from when it was experimental, I think.