JASDF thread

[Krippz]

Wow, I know is out of topic, but look what I found while trying to fins more F-15 photos

http://www.mstewart.net/subob/fighters/f15.pdf

 

Thanks for the manual; I've been looking for one for a while.

[Valery]

2 topol-m & mvsgas

 

It's OK. I will try to draw skin for this model.

http://forums.eagle.ru/showthread.php?t=50627

[topol-m]

Great! Which skin are you going to make?

[Valery]

I do not know. All depends on quantity and quality of photos. I wish to draw 22-8938 :) Only F-15J, no F-15DJ

Edited March 21, 2010 by Valery

[mvsgas]

I see what I can do, no promises

[Valery]

We can make a japanese skin basing on this one, but this is another model not for LO

[topol-m]

I do not know. All depends on quantity and quality of photos. I wish to draw 22-8938 :) Only F-15J, no F-15DJ

 

Ok.

The colors of JASDF:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I can post pictures of 82-8091 (the second one) from different angles :) The grey cammo of course is the most common it will be nice to have it.

Edited March 21, 2010 by topol-m

[topol-m]

OK these pics should cover almost all perspectives, I hope they are enough to make the 82-8091`s skin. In addition one close up pic of the left side of 52-8088:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[mvsgas]

Velery, did you find the photos you where looking for? I could not find any closer photos of the aircraft you were asking about

Edited March 22, 2010 by mvsgas

[mvsgas]

http://kantokuda.exblog.jp/12390474/

[mvsgas]

Hope this helps. I know they are not F-15J. This are pictures from a F-15C during the Luke AFB airshow last year.

[Valery]

Thanks. I've managed to found something, it will be enought to make a decent skin.

[topol-m]

Thanks. I've managed to found something, it will be enought to make a decent skin.

 

Can`t wait to see it done. :thumbup:

 

Now some tail and nose art:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[pauldy]

Coolness of those Eagles yet again~ Samurai of the Skies ^^

 

@Topol-M: I'm curious about the JASDF aircraft numbers.

 

If i'm correct, the USAF has year of aircraft manufacturing date on their vertical stabilizers stenciled/written on the tail

 

e.g. AF84 115 = 84 -> aircraft was made in 1984

 

So how do the JASDF planes go?

 

e.g. 82-8965.. What does that mean? aircraft was made in 1982? 1989?

[topol-m]

Coolness of those Eagles yet again~ Samurai of the Skies ^^

 

@Topol-M: I'm curious about the JASDF aircraft numbers.

 

If i'm correct, the USAF has year of aircraft manufacturing date on their vertical stabilizers stenciled/written on the tail

 

e.g. AF84 115 = 84 -> aircraft was made in 1984

 

So how do the JASDF planes go?

 

e.g. 82-8965.. What does that mean? aircraft was made in 1982? 1989?

 

The last 3 digits indicate manufacturing number. The first F-15J - 02-8801, the last - 82-8965. So 165 F-15Js so far. For the F-15DJ the counting starts from 12-8051 and the last one is 92-8098. Before these 3 last digits always stays 8 for all board numbers for both F-15J and F-15DJ. The first digit indicates year of introduction, for instance 12-8924 indicates "...1 year" in this case 1991, but 12-8803 indicates 1981. In your example - 82-8965 the first digit indicates 1998. The second digit is always 2 for all F-15Js and F-15DJs.

Edited March 23, 2010 by topol-m

[pauldy]

I see

 

so for example

 

I have a F-15J die cast model at home

 

Its tail numbers read 42-8838

 

So the particular jet it was modeled from was built in 1994 and that it was the 38th F-15J Eagle for JASDF am i correct?

Edited March 24, 2010 by pauldy

[topol-m]

It was built in 1984. "4" can be used for 84 and 94 but since this particular aircraft is one of the early manufactured F-15Js this can be a guide to the exact year, not very accurate but... Here you can see them all listed (and with photos) if you have doubts for a particular aircraft: http://www.f-15j.com/archive/all.htm

[pauldy]

I may have actually nailed it~

 

The model i have is based from the F-15J with a mountain painting livery http://www.f-15j.com/archive/detail/838.htm :)

 

838 was said to be built in 1984 by Mitsubishi Heavy.. or at least that's what the site says. Thanks for the link~

 

oh btw here it is

Edited March 24, 2010 by pauldy

[topol-m]

Very original livery indeed.

[topol-m]

As a little break from the F-15s, not for long though :), helicopter power:

 

 

 

 

 

 

[topol-m]

 

 

 

 

 

[Valery]

 

[topol-m]

Wow, man, you are fast! It looks great! :thumbup: May we hope for more skins? :P

[zakobi]

Does JASDF operate any other russian build aircrafts?

[topol-m]

Does JASDF operate any other russian build aircrafts?

 

Hmm, I don`t really know, that Ka-32 is the first one I`ve seen. BTW it probably isn`t operated by JASDF, cause on the side it is not written JASDF but Akagi Helicopter. Nonetheless it looks cool. :)

Edited March 26, 2010 by topol-m