F/A-18C VMFA-232

Ekki
Excellent result! Well done.

Christian Ristits
Like it very much, congrats!

Patrick Hagelstein
Nice one! Completely OOB?

B. M.
Very nice Hornet!

Dennis Mathes
Thank you very much, guys. It was not an easy build and took a lot of filling, sanding and resribing, but it was fun.
@Patrick, I've added some styrene and lead wire to the seat, and the adapter pylon for the targeting pod was recast from the Academy F-18C. This pylon is not included in the 1/72 Hasegawa F-18 kits. It was forgotten by Hasegawa. I've also added the six brackets on the inside of the vertical tails. The AGM-65G missiles came from one of their weapons sets, and the triple launcher was modified to a single rail laucncher. Decals for the missiles are from Wolfpack Decals, and the decals for the jet are OOB.

Patrick Hagelstein
Cool! The Hasegawa kit can be built into a masterpiece (as you showed) but it's a pain in the ... Much harder than the Academy one. But you nailed it!

Patrick Hagelstein
Wow..... 😮 I was trying to get in touch with Dennis about a set of self designed painting masks I saw he did over on ARC. Looking through ARC and Scalemates, I learned he sadly passed away 22 February 2018, only aged 44. So sorry to learn of his passing away only now. 🙁