1998 F-15C flaws

I was just looking over my F15C Monogram model and noticed something. It has a arrest hook for landing on a carrier but no launch hook. Is there a reason for that? Or just an oversight? Should I whittle one and add it?

Also on the plans and paint chart the color "E" is "Metallic" Is there a color "metallic" I know there is like metallic red and metallic blue, green etc. Is it gun metal maybe?

I am sitting here on the edge of my seat getting ready to build. My paints came in yesterday. I am waiting for an airbrush, optivisor and a paint cup to arrive.

Any body got a real picture of a F-15C, specially the under side. Full weapons and fuel tank.

Cant wait to get into the avro arrow.

The F-15's ( and one on F-16's) arresting hook is used as an emergency landing on an airfield, not for carrier landings. If the plane is in trouble, or the pilot injured, and can't operate teh braking system, the ground crew strings an arresting cable across the runway.. The hook snags the cable and brings the plane to a stop, though not as violently as on a carrier.

UASF planes' nose gear is not robust enough to take the stresses of a carrier's launch catapult...that's why there's no launch hook...The only exception was tThe F-4 Phantom. It was originally a Navy fighter so it reatined the launch hook on the nose gear even when in USAF service..

Metallic usually means aluminum or steel, depending on where its located.