Stealth Aircraft

Group Build Title: Stealth Aircraft

Group Build Leader(s): @michaelsatin

Group Build Description: Low radar observability is the new frontier in military aircraft design. There are a lot of approaches to it out there, so this could be an interesting and varied campaign.

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Low radar observability, or stealth, has been something military aircraft designers have been reaching for since RDF became a thing. How can we get our aircraft under the enemy’s curtin? Flying low doesn’t cut it anymore. Finally, in the '60s, the technology began to develop to design airframes to actually defeat radar, essentially becoming invisible to enemy defense networks. That ability has matured to the point that new front line combat aircraft are now almost universally designed with this feature in mind. But there are a lot of different approaches to building it in. Let’s have a campaign to highlight stealthy aircraft, and hopefully we’ll actually be able to see the models when they’re done!

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I have four kits that would work for this. Leaning toward Italeri’s 1/72 F-117.

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I might join this. Just got this yesterday.

Very interested to see this one built up, particularly in 1/48.

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Surely the point of stealth is you won’t see it built up?.. :grin:

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Well, not with RADAR eyes, anyway!

Michael :israel: :stuck_out_tongue:

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Did some painting and dry fitting. Added a 3d printed seat that was made for the Trumpeter J-20. I’ll build the Meng seat to see how it compares.

The canopy fit is amazing!




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It looks nice, Tony! But the campaign isn’t expected to start until June.

Michael :israel: :stuck_out_tongue:

Damn, lol. First time doing this. Thanks. I’ll move this to another sub.

Sorry! Would have loved to have seen that build in this campaign.

Michael :israel: :stuck_out_tongue:

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I could do my Tamiya F-35A for the campaign I guess.

There ya go! That’s my plan, but I’m going (surprise!) IDF.

Michael :israel: :stuck_out_tongue:

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I’ll be doing a surprise scheme

I am going old school with the F-117. Either Gulf War scheme or one of the modern adversary schemes.

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Here’s my F-35A Scheme for the build

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Well, that’ll be interesting!

Michael :israel: :stuck_out_tongue:

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Wow, what a cool camo scheme. One can see what scheme they are trying to look like :wink::grin::grin:

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