1:48 Hasegawa F-18A Hornet VFA-15 Valions

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May 11, 2023
This is the main subject of this project! But in this photo, she looks very clean.
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May 11, 2023
Another nice photo of my subject. Again she is very clean here. I like my kits weathered...
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May 11, 2023
I also like asymmetric loading!
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May 11, 2023
This F/A-18C only provides weathering ideas. I think this is excessive for my taste 🙂
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May 11, 2023
Same here. Some weathering ideas...
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May 11, 2023
An overview of the project's inventory.
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May 11, 2023
Progress so far: first action was to perform a surgery on the bottom fuselage part in order to replace the landing gear spaces. This was the first time I did this and I was terrified 🙂 But nothing was destroyed and the dry fit of these resin parts is perfect! So far so good!

Comments

9 11 May 2023, 20:42

CaptGPF
Taking a seat for the show.

18 March, 21:29

Giorgos
Many thanks mate!

Unfo it's gonna take a while... Apart from being a slow builder, I have a torn biceps arm tendon (not from scale modelling 🙂 ) and was operated a few days ago.

Just for info, Aires cockpit and landing gear bays are on, fuselage, wings (ofc with all hanging down) in place and I started priming. Then I had this accident with my hand...

I'll try to post some photos in the next days.

26 March, 11:38

Jos Jansen
Oh yeah...definitely grabbing a seat!

26 March, 12:01

CaptGPF
Ouch! Hope you feel better soon! tendons take a long time to heal - so no heavy weights for you for the foreseeable future. Fortunately, 1/48nscale kits aren't that heavy - so maybe they can make that part of your physical therapy for recovery! 😀

26 March, 15:33

Album info

A few notes about this project:

Back in June 1992, the Greek "Modelling" magazine featured the Hasegawa P24 kit, which had been released fairly recently. I don't recall the name of the builder but I remember myself, a teenager at that time, admiring the photos for many months.
- The scale was out of the question for me then; I could only accommodate 1:72 scale in my room.
- The price of the kit at that time was out of the question for me; I would have to save for about a year just to buy it. Let alone paints, etc. Apart from Verliden, there were no after market sets available then, or at least I was not aware of them. Of course, at that time I wouldn't even know what to do with a resin cockpit or a photo-etched fret 🙂
- The guy who built the model used techniques which were unknown to me at that time! Weathering was a term I did not know 🙂

I recently came across this kit on sale from a mate in this forum! I also found a decent collection of resin and PE detail sets.

So, building this kit is like a dream come true 🙂 I shall use Aires resin for the cockpit, landing gear and jet exhausts. I shall use Eduard PE sets. My intention is to use the kit's decals for VFA-15 Valions, although they are a bit yellowish... I feel that, if applied over a gloss surface, with the assistance of setters, the decals should be ok...

Let's see how it goes... In any case, I feel young again 🙂 🙂

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