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Oh Canada! So I'm in with this one, to be built OOB with decals from the spares box. Academy F-18A Hornet_box by Dermot Moriarty, on Flickr With a Sword and two Frog kits currently on the bench, I cannot wait to start something with decent fit and details! Academy F-18A Hornet_contents by Dermot Moriarty, on Flickr Decals will be for the 2007 Demo scheme which celebrated 25 years of Hornet service with Canada and are from this kit Thanks for looking, good luck with your builds! Cheers, Dermot
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Just completed this today, my first completed kit of 2022 with another couple of kits following on behind. As seen in the "F/A-18 STGB Part 2" group build. Canadian Air Force CF-18 439.Sqn Tiger Meet 1991/2 Academy 1/72 F/A-18A Hornet (Blue Angels kit) entirely out of the box. Leading Edge decal set 72.037 " CAF CF-18 439.Sqn Tiger Meet Special from 1991/92 Vallejo, Ammo Mig wash & custom mix matt finish. A brief work in progress here. Martin- 16 replies
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Purchased two of these excellent Academy kits for a fiver each at the 2019 SMW. The first of the two was completed as a Spanish Tiger during lockdown, so I've had this one waiting for an excuse to get started. Thanks to whoever thought of a second F/A-18 group build, this can be added to my infamous ever growing collection of flying felines! Here's the box with all the leftovers from the other kit, still wish I'd bought all the traders Academy F-18's now, I remember these being stacked high & going like the proverbial! Also the Leading Edge Tiger Meet decals. This will be built mostly out of the box, no aftermarket apart from the decals. Primed all the parts on the sprues & fixed the main fuselage parts including cockpit together. All goes together really nicely apart from one small gap just in front of the cockpit starboard side. This was apparent on the previous kit. It seems that Academy has included everything on the same sprues for the standard US F/A-18 as well as parts for the Canadian version. As I'm building the CF version I had to include the port side spotlight. A quick google showed the Canadian requirement for a spotlight to illuminate nighttime intercepts of Soviet bombers. There is an indentation on the inside of the port fuselage, so I just drilled this out for the provided clear spotlight part. The other part specific to the CF version in this kit is part 31 as opposed to 24. Here's the fuselage with some lead weight just secured in place with some bluetac just behind the cockpit area. The next job will be to seperate the control surfaces from the wings. I won't be buying resin flaps as I managed it well enough with the Spanish F/A-18. To be continued....
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If one were to make a Royal Canadian Air Force CF-18 Hornet to represent one based in Germany in the 80s, what are the recommended kits in 1/48? A two-seater would be even better but probably prohibitively expensive! Any decent aftermarket decals, was it 444 Squadron at Bad Söllingen?
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I have an urge to build a Canadian F-18 Hornet in 1/48 but I'm unsure about what kits I can use. I have seen that there are some CF-188 kits by Hasegawa but they are both very rare and very expensive. I'm not a great authority on the finer details of aircraft but am I right in thinking that the Canadian birds were as the US F-18A's with a search light added somewhere around the nose? So can anyone help me with what options I have, even if requiring aftermarket? I really like the pretty simple examples (ie not brightly coloured anniversary aircraft) as I loved the fake cockpits painted on their undersides. (I plumped for putting this in Cold War as I'm thinking that this would be an early example possibly a German based aircraft. - I'll need to do more research!)
