Hasegawa 1/72 F-15DJ

[EagleOnyx]

I knew most people were going to build Zeros for this group build so I of course have to come up with something different! There is nothing wrong with Zeros, BTW. I decided to build the ultimate secret weapon that the Japanese Air Self Defense Force finally revealed last summer after many years of development.

The F-15E Chihaya Kisaragi! The ultimate weapon!

[EagleOnyx]

I'm just kidding!

I'm really going to do this F-15DJ Aggressor!

[Thumboy]

You got me! Nice looking aircraft, love the camo. I will be following for sure

[Lee]

I'm just kidding!

I'm really going to do this F-15DJ Aggressor!

Ooh - I really want to get that kit - What's it like?

[EagleOnyx]

The kit is actually just like all of their 1/72 F-15's honestly. This particular kit only has standard looking F-15J decals and a small painting diagram. So you could really just buy any version and paint it this way. I only say that because I have seen some of the unusual Japanese paint scheme kits going for high prices. Those high priced kits might come with some actual specialized decals I guess.

The Paint diagram


And the Decal Sheet


It does come with these large blocks of gray decals, I think they want you to cut them into strips to place over the paint where the stencil data goes. The oddest thing about the Japanese F-15s is that they actually stencil EVERY removable panel with the panel ID number. They mask over the stencils when they do special paint schemes so you can see all these gray blocks through the special paint. I bet the special paint schemes are actually vinyl stickers over the whole jet. I can't confirm, its just my theory.

[Lee]

That's a lot of decals for a 1/72.......

[DBMiller]

Too bad the paint scheme doesn't come as a decal as well! This should be a sweet looking plane!

[Lee]

Too bad the paint scheme doesn't come as a decal as well! This should be a sweet looking plane!

Where would the fun in that be? lol

[JayCub]

That is one crazy looking paint scheme I would love to see done
Tom

[Goose]

Hello,

A guy in my club build this airplane in this camo scheme using tha tamiya 1/32nd as a base and used dxm decals if i remember well.

For all those grey lines etc he simply used his primer as base masked it and did all his others colours aroud.

Here's a link for eye candy

http://ansmodelisme.be/

enjoy your build

Goose

[EagleOnyx]

I have seen that build before! It was a while ago though so I forgot all about it! I doubt mine will turn out as excellent as his however.

[EagleOnyx]

I haven't started my build yet. lol

[eightfooticeman]

14 days left, where are you at with this build mate. We would love to see it finished.