F-22 Raptor in 1/72 scale

Once this was completed, I assembled and painted the various doors for the weapon's bays and added them and the missiles to the aircraft. After doing so, and letting that dry, I then added the decals for the aircraft.

There were quite a few. Altogether, I added over 75 decals to this aircraft. The low visibility decals are not easy to see in some places, but they all went on very well.

Once this was done, the model was completed and only in need of some touch up paint and the final two coats of dull coat. I decided to wait until later to build the engine carriage. The horizontal stabilizers and the nozzles for the variable thrust exhaust all work fine.

Here are the final standard pictures:

...and a few more with details:


And that completes the Fujimi 1/72 scale model of the US Air Force F-22A Raptor, 5th generation stealth fighter.

Well done Jeff. as beautiful as the real deal.

Equation said:

Well done Jeff. as beautiful as the real deal.

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Thanks, my friend.

It was a lot of fun building.

Wish we had a couple of hundred more of them than we do.