thorfinn Posted April 8, 2019 Share Posted April 8, 2019 Built for a 'Silly Egg' group build on another forum, I decided to give the old Hasegawa 'Egg' Hornet kit a Canadian flavor. (Insert all jokes about side-orders of back bacon here.) Since the kit itself is fairly simple, I juiced it with a few basic details. Even an 'egg' F-18 looks wrong without the black bulk of the ejection seat behind the pilot. A suitably-painted wedge-shaped block of styrene just fit between the pilot figure and the canopy. The pilot figure itself received straps for his oxygen mask and spare p-e buckles for his harness. An etched HUD frame left over from another build finished off the cockpit. Externally--though there are no gear wells or doors represented, with simple 'peg-in-hole' gear struts--some plastic-sheet gear doors and simple painted wells looked a bit better. The nose gear got a landing light. Mods specific to the Canadian Hornets included the 'bird cutter' aerials forward of the cockpit, tail-warning radar fairings and the small LEX fences aft of the cockpit. Canadian markings...surplus from Italeri's old 1/72 'RF-18A' boxing...included the port-nose spotlight position found on CAF aircraft of the type, for night interceptions of probing Russian bombers. And the answer to "When is an Egg-Plane Pilot Happiest?" When he's in his plane on the flight-line...waiting for orders to scramble. (No need to fuss: I'll just grab my coat and leave quietly....) 22 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yorkshire man Posted April 8, 2019 Share Posted April 8, 2019 A nice egg-sample (ouch!)😁 1 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phone Phixer Posted April 9, 2019 Share Posted April 9, 2019 Cracking work, egg-cellent!! (Groan) 🍁🥓 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tiger331 Posted April 9, 2019 Share Posted April 9, 2019 A nicely built example so I guess the 'yoke' is on us ! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hairystick Posted April 9, 2019 Share Posted April 9, 2019 Brilliant! I like it. I like it a LOT! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Winenut Posted April 9, 2019 Share Posted April 9, 2019 Nice egg! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Silenoz Posted April 9, 2019 Share Posted April 9, 2019 Looking good and ready to scramble... no bottom pics of the fake canopy? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thorfinn Posted April 9, 2019 Author Share Posted April 9, 2019 5 hours ago, Silenoz said: Looking good and ready to scramble... no bottom pics of the fake canopy? An unhealthy interest in the undersides of things, eh? That's alright...we don't judge here. But seriously, thanks for asking. I had to hand-paint it, since there was no way I could make the decal version fit properly. I probably should have made it match the top 'bubble' size more closely...but there we are. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
modelling minion Posted April 27, 2019 Share Posted April 27, 2019 Egg-stremely nice work there Greg! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rob G Posted April 27, 2019 Share Posted April 27, 2019 That's a good 'un, looks like it's ready to fry after the Rooskies and stop them poaching Canuckistanian airspace! Too much? Sorry, I'll get back in me shell... 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thorfinn Posted April 27, 2019 Author Share Posted April 27, 2019 8 minutes ago, Rob G said: Too much? Sorry, I'll get back in me shell... Nonsense! I will now never again be able to think of it as anything except 'Canuckistanian airspace!' 🇨🇦 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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