Boeing F-18 Super Hornet

Daniel
when dreams come true! A new tool rhino - awesome meng!

Jos Jansen
Totally agree Daniel...!

Carlos Cisneros
Late entry... have had this since first issued.

Daniel
This will be awesome

Tommaso S
I hope so

Alexander
Looks interesting. A bit challenging, especially on the LERX joint between the upper and lower fuselage parts and the intakes.
I might add that the BRU-57 racks are in fact for the F-16 - for a BRU-55 which is used by the US Navy you would need to fill in the rectangular holes. If you care that much about realism that is.

Tommaso S
Hey Alexander! Thank you for the info, I didn't exactly knew the different between the two racks but my choice was made mainly due to availability of the 55 racks Now that you told me though I will try to fix them manually and make them look like 55s. Thanks!

Michael Phillips
Off to a great start here, count me in!

Alexander
No problem! I totally understand your choice. It is quite baffling that Eduard only offers the BRU-57 and not the BRU-55 as well - and that Hasegawa doesn't even include it in ther Weapon sets. Which leaves ResKit or leftover pieces from legacy Hornet kits as the only source for the vertical ejector racks, which is sad because they are quite abundant on the Super Hornets as well.
But it should be an easy fix I think.

Clifford Keesler
Watching.

Andrew Horton
Looks awesome! I can't wait to build my Eduard Superbug.

Scott Collingwood
I do love it when I get a crew, especially when you get JHMCS Helmets.

Patrick O
@Roland haha, yeah that's most likely how I will feel the day tamiya announces a 1/48 super hornet xD

Konrad Limmer
Very nice Roland! Cool presentation of a superb build ! Congrats mate !

Roland Gunslinger
Thanks Konrad really appreciate that!

I have reserved a place for you here

Scalemates F-14 Tomcat Group build 2020 (1. Maj do 31. Grudzień, )

Spanjaard
fantastic result Roland. a pleasure to follow the build

Clifford Keesler
A beautiful Bug. I love the display, very well done sir.

Roland Gunslinger
Thank you Spanjaard and Clifford for your kind comments and following this build. I'm glad that you like it

I'm sure that some of the kits i started would never be complete without this community. Very motivating!

Slavo Hazucha
Joining the cheering crowds late but loudly - A most convincing proof of the point that less is often more - no armament & the even light weathering make it look like just out of the trailer (which will hopefully, at some point, result in the final movie being completed & released )!

Hope a Hornet build has in no way negatively impeded your Tomcat-building skills...!

Roland Gunslinger
Thank you Slavo
I'm sure im going to build another hornet from the movie soon.

No worries, im chanting this mantra while building cat's: Don't glue swing wings, Don't glue swing wings, Don't glue swing wings,...

Николай Дом
Отличная модель, сборка одно удовольствие

Detlef Kroeze
Completed over 20 years when I was young, subsequently lost in move (or something).

Bill Gilman
Very nicely done indeed...amazing work! I think that Superbug needs a carwash though.

Daniel
Thank you very much Bill, I'm sure they'd consider it before the next airshow
Spanjaard, me too mate

Holger Kranich
Great sh*t dude!

Neal
The color and grime on those bombs is absolutely on point!

Ricardo Reis
This is a fantastic job! Thanks for sharing!

Daniel
@Holger: Thx mate!
@Neal: Took some extra steps to get the thermal coating structure right and the rest was just quick light gull grey w/ sandbeige, oils and drybrush Thanks for noticing!
@Ricardo: Thanks for commenting! always a pleasure to share the hobby with you guys

Pierre
Sweety build, love the plane and the modular ordinance

Daniel
Thank you Pierre, I appreciate it!

wilky
It's going to be a sad day when the old Hornets are gone.
At least we'll have the Super Hornet for a while

Łukasz Gliński
Very good job

Stefan Schacht
well done

Kamil Rudziński
Świetna robota!

Daniel
What a beauty, awesome m8!

Oleg Bogolei
exelent model! would be great to see work in progress pics)

Romain Sablou
Thank you all wip pics can be see here on flickr, www.flickr.com/photos/skyraider91/albums/72157712813848292/with/49756874981/

but yes next time i could upload them here too !

Neuling
Looks good!

Ronan
Très beau travail

Romain Sablou
Merci !

Sergej I
Perfect from any angle!

Patrick Hagelstein
Nice!!!

Romain Sablou
Thank you very much guys !

Neuling
Top notch! This beautiful build looks like a real aircraft.

Daniel
I agree with Neuling, this is another gem you are showing here, I again really like the dynamic pose and the way you took the pics, awesome stuff

Treehugger
I think you should have some fun and use an image editor to erase the stand from at least some of the photos. As time goes by, perhaps the photos will be what you have in store.

Łukasz Gliński
Never seen that camo, really nice

Neuling
Interesting little bird!

Patrick Hagelstein
BKR! I'm in!

Roland Gunslinger
Because it's the most unwieldy box in my stash-tetris, i deceided to start that project sooner as planned.
I'm still thinking about aftermarket parts. But I'm not sure yet...
I know it's a "controversial" kit

Daniel
Nnnnice, you got your first viewer ! Will be interesting to see how "controversial" this really is. So far I can't really say the trumpy is a dream kit...

Roland Gunslinger
Welcome! Oh, i have the "E" Trumeter in my stash, too. So, i don't read your last sentence

Daniel
Hey, but it's still fun! who wants a boring perfect tamiya kit you just slap together with extra thin and you're done? ok.ok, please take your hands down again people, just kidding^^

Roland Gunslinger

Michael Hickey
I'm in I'm halfway through painting this scheme myself.

Daniel
Nice! Cool choice you both

Erik Evans
Really nice kit. There are great reference pictures on www.seaforces.org, but you surely know that already. Best of luck with the build.

Daniel
But where are the pics?

Michael Hickey
There coming, when I decide to pick this kit up again.

Jos Jansen
Another great bug...following mate!

Daniel
I'd like to see this as well

Spiros P.
Try https://aviationmegastore.co..tion=prodinfo&art=113760

Roge Lamas
Thanks for the recommendation but i looking for E & F versions

Ben Schumacher
Of course it makes sense - I have had it my hands several times, I have seen it built up and several build reports clearly show the issues this kit has.

Ben Schumacher
Lol, so much butthurt...

Soeren .
Indeed

And I love that kind of people who are comparing new tool kits from this year, with kits from 2010!
The Trumpeter Hornet is almost ten years old, which is a lot when you see how this hobby has evolved over the last few years!!!
And then comes Revell in 2019 with a kit around the corner, where there instruction tells you to remove flesh... Please what? And that has nothing to do with rivetcounting!
If Special Hobby tells you that, sure ok they are a smaller company and are offering more shurt run stuff (if something like that still exists to day) and then you have big companies like Revell, where I expect something better in the end!

By the way, Revell has repeatedly postponed the Hornet to revise the mistakes!!

Jeremy Wiltcher
Well, that escalated quickly......

I mean that really got out of hand fast!.....

Treehugger
Let's save some for other threads. Good luck with your F-18 build. Such large model should be such a nice display piece.

Mel06
Guys, a question for those who have assembled this kit ... this super hornet at 1.32 how is the mold) I mean the lace, fit well or should we have putty ready?

Jose Romo
I had to do some sanding and filling on the vertical stabilizers to fit the body, filling and sanding on the intake areas... I wasn't expecting this for a brand new mold, but it was fun to build
F/A-18 Super Hornet, Revell 1/32 | Album by joseromo2003 (1:32)

Spfparker
Terrible fit - avoid if you can...

Zbynek Honzik
Nice job, Sergej!

Daniel
Great work Sergej, a beauty love these jolly rogers CAG jets!

Igor Chanak
Great work.

Konrad Limmer
That bird looks very nice ! Very nice work mate

Sergej I
Thanks, Konrad!

Nils Steyaert
Deu to faulty primer and other issues, this project has been put on hold.
i will restart this project again with a new Revell EA-18G kit at a later date.

Patrick Hagelstein
I have this one also planned, so I will follow this with interest.

Marco Preto
I'm currently also working on one of these! Be sure to have nice reference photos as the instructions can mislead you.
Cheers

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Nils Steyaert
after almost 3 years of gathering dust on a shelf, i have restarted work on the Growler.
started by marking up the tail and painting the jammer pods. i aso restarted work on my 1/144 Australian F/A-18F.

Anthony D'Agostino
Thanks bigtime, saves me the trouble of trying to contact the company for details!

Upon viewing your set, then inspecting mine, I realized that I missed the very thin line indicating where I still need to remove material from the internal nozzle, leaving behind the stubs, then it should align up with the engine. Thanks a million!

Also, there are two compressor faces in mine, but one has a lot of resin at the base, and I figured it would just flat sand that until the details became hollow. If you need a picuture of the part, let me know, I will try to post it on my page, or direct you to its location on britmodeller.com. I will have to figure out how to add photos, as I am still new to scalemates.

The first time I visited this site, I was BEYOND confused. Now that I am starting to understand it, I am in love, it is the end all be all of modelling needs. Then you have the help of people like you, making it that much better!

Anthony

Anthony D'Agostino
I have two of these in my stash, and I wish I had been a member of these sites before I bought the kits. I am new to modelling after a thirty year layoff, and as one of my favorite subjects, I had to have them. Recently while going thru all my research regarding the kit, after market options etc, I started to read about the kits construction. Every single build review speaks of horrible fit problems that seem to compound as the build moves forward. Some parts look aligned, only later to find that they create a worse problem with subsequent parts being added, just a never ending nightmare of problems. Most are inexcusable flaws based on the kit itself and not builders errors. For a kit this expensive from a company this well know and trusted, there is absolutely no excuse for the aweful way the kit builds up. For experienced modellers, there is nothing that can't be overcome, but for people like me, it will take me years of building to regain the skills it requires to complete this kit and have it look half decent.

I hope you are able to finish the kit with success. Mine will likely become a test bed for experiments, never making too a finished, presentable model. Shame too, cause it can look great in the right hands. I spend more money on aftermarket kits, most of that will be wasted as well.

I will never buy another kit without first finding out what is wrong with it. As for hasegawa releasing a kit this poor, theu should be embarrassed about it.

Michael Hickey
That's a shame to see this kit is disappointing to you and others that have done reviews on it. I built my kit last year or so and enjoyed every bit of it, sorry you feel this way.

VF-11/VFA-11 Red Rippers | Project by mikestomcat (1:48)

Soeren .
I must say that Ive read a lot of reviews and also talked with some mates, who build this kit and NONE of them is saying what you are writing.

Sure it has here and there some fitting issue here and there, but nothing "horrible" like you are saying.

Nathan Dempsey
I had the opposite impression of this Hasegawa's Super Hornets. I had several kits from other manufacturers and found Hasegawa's to have LESS problems with both fit and accuracy (at least with test fitting). I'm super happy with mine.

Soeren .
Maybe he read about the A to D versions, which have some more issues?!

Nathan Dempsey
I'm also easily pleased. For the newer kits I'm happy as long as it fits together reasonably well. Accuracy concerns come and go for me. Sometimes I care and sometimes I do not (as long as it is a good attempt by the manufacturer).

Anthony D'Agostino
Hey guys, I haven't even started to build these kits yet, my negative views are based on multiple accounts of fit issues from modellers of extraordinary talent, far beyond the beginner level. This was not a one off bad review, it is multiple reviews from different sites. I hope you guys are correct, as I love the subject so much, it breaks my heart (and my bank) if these turn out to be the horror I keep reading about. And no, it is not the wrong version/kit, I can tell easily the difference between a C and the F aircraft, the intakes and sheer size make it impossible to mistake one for the other.

Here are the links to the build reviews that I am referring too, all of which are linked above, that is how I knkw about the reviews in the first place.

ipmsusa.org/reviews/Archive/.._FA18F/Hasegawa_48_FA18F.htm

https://modelingmadness.com/scott/mod/us/f18f.htm

I also came across at least one more review with the exact same issues, and apparently, once the fit issue begin, they progressively get worse because many parts go on without the aid of interlocking/alignment points, where the builder just rough estimates the location based upon matching lines. Any degree off, will certainly begin such a cascade event, leading too giant gaps later on. Plus they all mention the bottom insert of the flaps is ridiculously small for the space it is supposed to fill. How can that even be? Having a seam to fill is one thing, but if their right, and only when I begin to build the flaps will I know, that is inexcusable.

At worst, I have a kit that leaves me with very low expectations. Sadly, the kit arrived already with damage, lots of parts are broken off the sprue, which is why I have two kits. The store sent me a replacement, which also arrived damaged in the very same way. I was hoping to make one as a finished airframe, the second as the cannibalized aircraft, since that is how the navy has been coping with budget cuts, sacrificing one plane to allow others to keep flying.

Add in the aftermarket additions though, and my investment is pretty steep. I hope these will at least build ONE decent kit, as with the fit issues, I won't be starting this kit any time soon. I will work on my MH-XX series of helos to sharpen my skills with all black birds (hard to mess that up) while giving me a chance to work with both PE and resin, before I tackle these expensive kits.

Thanks for the input, I hope you guys are right, only time will tell.

Anthony Stalker6recon D'Agostino

Eric Juvyns
I also have the old C and D kits. And the fit of these is not that good. But for me the fit of the E version is very good. Als always one has to take the time (a lot of it) to do some dry-fitting and make up a build sequence very loosely based on the instructions. For me this means finetuning the fit before using any glue. Also trying to glue as many parts together (sub-assemblies) before painting. Paint can ruin the fit with most Hasegawa kits. Most of them have a very tight fit.
So IMO you just have to make up your own conclusions, don't listen to much to al those reviews and just build the kit and foremost have a lot of fun doing so.

Anthony D'Agostino
Roger that! I keep seeing reviews from online stores, all in the positive..... So my hopes for agood build are growing! Now I just need the E and G kits.

Jens Valkeneers
Superb painting! The black colour, is it just paint or a special primer like mr surfacer 1500 form gunze?

Holger Kranich
Thats a promising start, Eric! What coloures do you use? Light seagull grey?

Bart Goesaert
nice painting so far...

Eric Juvyns
Thx.
Jens, it's black mr surfacer 1500 thinned down with mr leveler.
Holger, i used the paints indicated in the manual. H307 for the top and H308 for the bottom. Both from gunze sangyo.

Holger Kranich
Looks awesome Buddy!

John Dunbar
Oh cool!

Michael Hickey
Looking very nice.

Jos Jansen
Nice progress on the painting!

Bryn Crandell
Looking good so far. Watching!

Humpty Hays
The shading has turned out better than I expected