1/48 Hasegawa F-18C Hornet

Gallery Article by Shawn "phantom" Weiler on Aug 1 2014

 

So you recently saw my VFA-15 bird, so here is a shipmate. VFA-87s 2014 CAG. This plane is the Hasegawa kit with a MAW resin nose which includes the bird slicers. Not hard to make but the MAW product is much finer and looks better then I can do. Also used the MAW chaff buckets and resin MLG doors. Along with a Black Box cockpit, metal wing folds and Afterburner decals you get a lot of aftermarket.

 

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The decals represent a 2014 CAG from VFA-87 on board USS GH Bush CVN-77. Seeing as the only (besides Phantoms and aggressors) Navy models I make have "AJ" tail codes, two options on one Afterburner sheet work for me. If CVW-17 is your bag then this sheet is even BETTER for you.

As I did for my past VFA-15 build I added a couple group photos of past squadron birds and most of the current CVW-8 CAGS.

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Photos and text © by Shawn "phantom" Weiler