1/48 Hasegwa F/A-18F Super Hornet 

by Juhwan Lee

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I built this 1/48 F/A-18F limited edition for a contest.  This kit has sharp panellines and is well designed and detailed, but I feel that the pilot seat is a kind of empty. I used the resin pilot seat from a Blackbox set that was released new.  However, the HUD did not match, so I designed that by myself.  The original kit and resin set from Blackbox did not have the button in the monitor at the front instrument cluster. So I drew the button.
I made the back mirror on the canopy with PLAPLATE and nozzle at the canopy did not match, so I made up with epoxy putty and drew panellines. This part was so hard.

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The kit was armed with Two AIM-20s and two AIM-9x and GBU-16 at center pylon is from Hasegawa armor D set. The GBU-16 is implemented by preventing explosion.

Decal are from VFA-2 'Bounty Hunters from Twobobs. I really like LOW VISIBILITY. The kit and extra decals did have Heatproof board at stern.  So I implement that by using stencil.  Jihoon Lee who is member of Modeler Forum helped me to implement it.  I did weathering with enamel referring to a real picture. It was high level work. I am  satisfied although this is not perfect. Thank you for your time.

Juhwan 

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Photos and text © by Juhwan Lee