Best 1/48 F-15 C kit

The Mongram kit is the best one if you're on a budget, Hasegawa's kit is the better of the two you mentioned. The Academy kit also builds into a good looking model, but then again there is no such thing as an ugly Eagle.

I may have to dodge tomatoes, but I'll stick up for the Monogram kit from about 10 years back. Built up nicely, with clean lines, no filler, and excellent results. Can't vouch for the accuracy of the dimensions or panel lines (I'm not a bean-counter), but a very sleek kit that's very affordable.

Check out the Academy kit, huh? Okiedokie will do.
Oh what the 'ell maybe I'll get all three and have builders choice test
Wroper

If its anything like the Academy E it will be a great kit.
Its the only kit that I have had in a long time that has a full weapons loadout.
LGB's,CBU's AAM's and the good old bunker buster.

Have you taken a look at the Academy kit? Mine doesn't look too bad, and has the option of a C or D variant. Nice little kit for far less than the Hasegawa.

demono69

Both are excellent kits, although I do like the way the Hasegawa intakes fit together and the somewhat finer engraving. That seam running down the middle of the canopy is in fact a necessary measure to get a canopy that correctly captures the bulged shape of the real thing.

One does need to polish the offensive mould parting line out of the canopy, but that is easy to do with a couple fine grits of sandpaper (400 then 600, then 1200, then 1500, then 2000, then a nail buffing file, finished off with some plastic polish on a dremel tool with a cotton buffing wheel. There are other methods, but just compare the canopy to the Revell/Monogram one and youj'll see the difference.