Yeah, I had gotten this one off Amazon haha!

You could always just build it without weapons if you prefer! Tamiya jets tend to be pretty good about being able to have weapons and such off the plane.

That's good to know, thanks! Are there gap issues, or do they just not want to go together nicely without some force/fighting it?

@@fenrismodels you need to watch @primedmodelworks - he's actually building the kit.

I do like Aggressor schemes. They are always fun to do, something different.

It's just regular ol' blue tack, also called poster tack. I roll it up and put it on an old pill bottle, but you can use it to fashion a handle out of a number of items.

@@fenrismodels Awesome, thanks a lot!

Thank you for the kind words and the sub! Yeah, I deff enjoyed this kit. It *is* an older kit and it does show, but it's nothing that isn't easily fixed as I highlighted in the video. Very fun build overall!

Haha deff, I'd love to see what you do with it! That's really cool though, I wish I had a more personal connection to some of the builds I've done. The basic Tamiya kit I don't think has any LN schemes, but the 3rd party set I got had 15 schemes in it, and 4 of them were LN 😅

Haha I'm glad you enjoyed it! Believe it or not, there's actually an F-15 with the Decepticon logo named Starscream in use by the military! I *am* considering painting up another F-15 as the G1 Starscream at some point though... I mean, how could I not, right???

Thank you! It was a fun build, has me contemplating getting an F-16 up as well

Oh, that'd be interesting! I wouldn't mind picking one up if they did that!

I'll also admit to having needed to stretch the red, wound up running out as I was filming so I didn't get as much coverage as I might have otherwise. It works out from where it hangs in my office, gives that touch more of an anime feel, but it wasn't ideal by any means 😅 Eventually I plan to get the Curtiss R3C-0 as well, but I haven't yet. There's also some Nausicaa models I want. Porco Rosso is one of my favorite Ghibli films up there with Nausicaa and Princess Mononoke (though I guess it makes sense that there isn't any Princess Mononoke model kits haha!)

@@fenrismodels ah yeah I've been there. I have LP-21 Italian Red ready for when I get there. Been using it for the hinomaru on WW2 Japanese planes. I love all the Ghibli films but Porco and Howls Moving Castle are my two favorite. I would really like some nausicaa models though if I can find them.

Oh, interesting! I hadn't heard of any nose cone issues, but I can see it being a problem if you build out the radar. I think it took a little bit to get it to fit nicely IIRC, but it didn't get recorded. I'll also admit to not really doing a lot with 3rd party stuff generally speaking, but I did almost get new exhaust cans for this one. I had heard that the ones in the kit aren't the best.

@@fenrismodels I did not build out the radar, and yeah it was a year ago so I could be remembering wrong. I do remember being disappointed getting a Tamiya kit that is typically shake and bake and having to do far more filling and such than I wanted. I did use magnets to attach all the stores so I could paint them later and maybe swap them out if I wanted. I wish they kept the Eagle with the turkey feathers as it is a cleaner look. So to that I really like the way you did yours. It's also a really neat 'call back' to the way the plane was originally designed. Of course, as long as you are happy with it that is the most important thing. I don't always do 3rd party add ons. I do like mixing in some scratch building to put my own mark on a kit. I happened to find the resin exhaust at a model show so it was too easy to not grab it up lol. I like your style, I tend to do more weathering on my kits, so I'll need to check out more of yours to see if I can not "over weather' hehe

@@gamerleveldad1397 I'm glad you like it. And it's worth saying that weathering is a highly personal touch. While I don't necessarily weather my own kits, that doesn't mean I don't appreciate the time, love, care, and attention to detail that goes into the process. It's just not my "art style", if that makes any sense 😅 Because to me, at the end of the day, modeling is an art form just like any other. No style invalidates any other style in this hobby no more than it does in any other art form.

Haha I believe that! Though I've had some pretty good Revell in the past a time or two. Might be interesting to compare the two kits, actually... 🤔

Thank you for the kind words! I think I'm quite happy with this for jets, at least the 1/48 stuff. I should give it a go at least once on some 1/72 kit at some point, just to compare

@@jodinegolchin5045 thank you for the kind words, I'm Glad you enjoyed it! Starting to think I would do more modern aircraft haha!

Haha I'm glad I'm not the only one that struggled with that! Loved what you did with yours, btw!

Not really, but a good number of them *are* needed to fit Marco in there. If you leave him out, some of it is more visible, but even then some serve are locating tabs and structural support for the upper fuselage half. I'd recommend taking a look at what all is there and all of the connection points. I'd wager you'll want to use most if not all of them. You just might not need to paint them is all.

Thanks! It's was deff a fun kit, I am glad you enjoyed the build!

Thank you so much! I did enjoy it, despite how long it took lol. I'm not fully one for jets comparatively per se, but I'm warming up to them as model kits

Thank you! I hope you enjoyed the video!

Thanks! I had a lot of fun with it... even if it did take me almost 7 months to finish haha!

It might be the Midway kit, then? I would have preferred that one I think. Same kit, but decals/schemes included are closer to what I am planning on doing with this one haha.

Very nice!!! I'm seriously contemplating picking up one of those just for fun. I will say, be very mindful with the struts portion; it's a bit tricky and fiddly to get it to go in nicely.

I'm deff looking forward to the build haha!

I love the way it looks, there's a reason its so well loved haha

Yeah, I was happy to see that too! I meant to make a comment on it, that's a good shout! Thanks!

I'm glad you enjoyed it! I'm looking forward to building it certainly, it looks like a good solid build!

I definitely look forward to that

Thank you, I'm glad you enjoyed it! Look forward to seeing the hold video for it soon!

The word I was actually looking for there was "casemate". Superstructure is also fairly correct, but casemate was the specific item I was looking for. (I assume you are talking about 3:05)

I'm glad you enjoyed the unboxing! I do plan on starting this kit here soon and making a video on it, so keep an eye out for that one sometime in the next few weeks! The US Interior Yellow Green you are talking about is Zinc Chromate. There were two zinc chromates, both a "yellow-green" but one is more yellow and the other is more green. The yellow zinc chromate never was used in cockpits; some kits have it listed as the paint, but it wasn't really used. Even green zinc chromate is kiiiiinda questionable, as it was similar, but separate, from US Interior Green (another yellow-green green). The big thing about yellow zinc chromate is, it was quite cancerous to work with. Fun fact there, additives were... added... (that feels odd to say) that helped to inhibit this, which changed the paint color to a greener hue. Completely tangential to your point, but I guess I just felt like adding it haha 😅

Whatever the colors used, it's unfortunate that Testor's Model Master is no longer widely available.

@@garydaniels5495 Yeah, sadly Rustoleum discontinued the line when they bought out Testors in the mid-2000's 🥲

Haha that's fair! Maybe I should grab the Revell one and do a side-by-side 🤔

How tall? I'm not really sure, it's currently hanging so it's not really easy for me to measure, but to guesstimate I'd say about 3 inches or so?

I'm definitely looking forward to it!

Nice! You'll definitely need to let us know how it turns out!

Haha indeed! No reason to not build whatever strikes your fancy, in my opinion!

Thank you! I quite love that shade of green, yeah, it works really well with the plane!

Haha thanks, I am glad you enjoyed it!

Thanks!!!

Can't believe it's taken me so long to get around to building one!

Thanks! I'm really happy with it, and it was nice getting back to aircraft models.

Thanks! I do too, I think that green complements it quite nicely! Was why I went with that option haha

Thanks, I am glad you enjoyed them! I am so very happy with how this one turned out, and the new light box does *wonders* for the final photos!

Dinos are a GREAT canvas for trying things out, in my opinion. No need to worry about color accuracy or realism there! I've never really tried to make my own sprue goo, I should give it a serious try sometime!

🤔Hmmm... you know, just might be!

Haha thanks, I really appreciate it!

Thank you! I am really happy with it, I need to try it out on more kits I think

I can't really use lacquers due to health issues. I know their Acrysion and Aqueous lines are less of an issue, but I already have a large amount of Vallejo paints on hand. Plus, it's all going to be custom paint jobs anyway, so I'm terribly worried about it being an *exact* match. Red is fine enough for red, blue for blue, etc.

@@fenrismodels oh I'm sorry, I didn't realize that. I just remembered that bandai and gundam have some sort of a partnership where they make the paint for exact color matching.

@@charlesyoung8600 Haha no worries at all! and yeah, GSI Creos has some specific Gundam colors are very nice matches. I deff recommend them if anyone is looking for the colors in lacquer paint! Thank you for mentioning it!

Awesome! I've been working on them slowly, I'll admit haha 😅

I wanted to do this sooooo badly!!! But all the dinosaur kits I have don't generally have extra parts for me to use TT___TT

Don't You have like an extra Parasaurolophus head? 😊

@@calibear569 🤔Hmmmm... this is fair....