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He we go as per my post in chat,  nearly ended with the much superior Academy kit but I fortunately checked before buying to see it didn’t have the parts for an Aussie A 

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Great to have you join the fun Stu and with a classic aircraft and a classic kit.

I'm looking forward to watching your progress and it will be nice to see a Hornet with Hi-Vis national markings rather than the now standard grey.

 

Craig. 

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It is not hard to convert the Academy C to an A. All you need to do is remove (or leave off) a few ECM/ESM blisters around the fuselage and tail and removed the 'birdslicers' off the nose and you have an A.

 

Anyway, looking forward to your build.

 

I am also a little confuse about this statement in the 'Chat' thread?

 



 I do have a question as to where I can find a paint guide for the airframe in the hidecao set.....

 

Is hidecao a typo?

 

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6 hours ago, Romeo Alpha Yankee said:

It is not hard to convert the Academy C to an A. All you need to do is remove (or leave off) a few ECM/ESM blisters around the fuselage and tail and removed the 'birdslicers' off the nose and you have an A.

 

Anyway, looking forward to your build.

 

I am also a little confuse about this statement in the 'Chat' thread?

 

 

 

 

Is hidecao a typo?

 

Oops, meant to be hidecal, not ordering the decal sheet yet and even then the guide in the sheet is naff, thanks for the advice re the conversion 

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Here is a better rendition of the paint scheme, colours and demarcations have not changed since delivery.

 

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And a couple of pictures of the jet on the sheet.

 

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Oh and nice choice BTW!

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RAAF and Canadian Hornets are painted in darker greys than the USN and USMC jets. Something I am used to I suppose seeing these around the traps for the past 30 odd years.

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19 minutes ago, modelling minion said:

Hi Stu, any progress on your Hornet yet?

Primed the sprues, other builds have distracted, I shall get the box out the stash and start after dinner :)

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25 minutes ago, modelling minion said:

Blimey Stu that was quick work!

Looks like a Hornet already, that looks like a fair amount of filler though.

Pretty simple kit so didn’t take much work also was pretty liberal with the filler, won’t see any more progress for a few days, going to watch England at Wembley tommorow, and other builds will take Sunday’s modelling time up

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6 hours ago, modelling minion said:

Well done Stu, she looks much better with all the traces of filler removed, off to the paint shop soon then.

Indeed, now for the underside 

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All ready for that canopy, cue the cold sweats as it was no where to be found and the awful thought i left it in the sprue bag when it was binned, though a quick think and I’m 99% sure it’s in the box of the Hasegawa intruder i primed at the same time 

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6 hours ago, modelling minion said:

Hope you find your canopy Stu!

Good job on the gloss coat, the decals should stick to that nicely.

Indeed it was in the intruder box, needed a little fiddling which isn’t totally done 

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