A sidestep from panzers and BattleMechs, I started on a 1:72 #Revell F-15E I got from Santa. This'll be the first of three, and I have nerdily obvious and silly paintjobs in mind for them. I mean, that's the only reason I wanted a semimodern jet to begin with 😅

To avoid decals I went for a jeweling effect on the numerous MFDs on the instrument panels. No one'll see them when the set is sealed, but it was fun anyway. It'll be days before I get to paint anything, I imagine.

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Progress on the nerdy Strike Eagle, transformed with a bit of red primer from bits of plastic into something slightly more planelike. The kitchen lights and the phone camera make it look a bit radioactive, but in a couple of days it'll be sporting a grey basecoat, maybe even metallics before I start masking.

Let's see how that goes, it'll be another "feels correct to me" 😄

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Said F-15E got so very boring with a layer of Vallejo USAF Medium Grey but fear not, it _will_ be nerdified!

I just need to decide on the painting and therefore the masking order. Lots of ddg'ng has been spent on checking sources, which has led me to feel I've got a few choices to make.
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After spending way too many decimeters of masking tape between three airbrushing sessions the regocnizable paintjob part is done for the first of three F-15s in this megaproject of mine. Seeing this makes me surprisingly happy 😄

I've still got to do the metallics, fix a few bits where the crappy painter's tape failed, and the roundels. How in the Empire do I do those? Print some on an A4 and cut out as stencils? 🤔

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Another long masking session with a few minutes of airbrushing done yesterday. I fixed the previous few oversprays and covered the engine platings and nozzles with Vallejo's gunmetal. That left some tight spots to be fixed with a brush later, but that's ok.

Maybe the landing gear bays with the wheels and a few darker grey panels next?

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One could think I have invested in shares of the masking/painter's tape manufacturers. I made some silly tape-based stencils. It started as a scaled-down and printed insignia, which I used for cutting a piece of 0,5mm styrene into a template for reusability. All this for a few silly blasts of airbrush 😄 I just hope the result looks like Decepticon icon.

Also, attempt at heat staining on the engines. Mostly stippled blue wash and some violet one later.

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Visible fun additions are pretty much done for the F-15E, and I guess everyone and their grandmother can now tell it's #Starscream, one of the three foremost #Decepticon #Seekers. Before the gloss varnish I'll add the wheels and drop tanks.

And yes, I know, I took some, eh, liberties with the Decepticon roundels to get them airbrushed on. I only added the eyes afterwards, I don't trust my freehanding enough to add the rest by hand. So it's more G1 cartoon style than of perfect repeatability 😄

Instead of a finely controlled and elegant pin wash I covered the whole F-15E model in a dynamic thinness wash of Abteilung's Sepia. After a bit of time I cleaned it mostly up. There's still more to do, and I'll use some dot filtering and/or buff later on some bits, and a bit of Industrial Earth on the underside. I think 😄

The drop tank gluing sucks badly, and the left landing gear came off. This fiddliness aggravates me to no end.

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And then one of the cats knocked the damn thing to the floor. Nose wheel broke and the repair looks like it was AI-generated 😅

I applied a yellow-grey-buff dot filtering on the top, used some Industrial Earth on the bottom and satin varnished the thing. Too shiny, will do a matt one later. And after that I'll drybrush some black on the Vulcan port, maybe the vents too.

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One third of my wonderfully silly #Decepticon #Seeker project is done with a 1:72-scale #Starscream - hooray!

I'm quite happy with him, even if the model suffered a couple of setbacks. These final photos need cleanup, but I guess this shows the result well enough to celebrate :D

Now I need to buy, build and paint the other two Seekers!

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