1/48 Hasegawa CF-18 Hornet

Gallery Article by Shawn phantom Weiler on Oct 10 2014

 

      

This is a long overdue standard paint scheme CF-18 Hornet. Built 50 Hornets now. Almost all are colour birds. This one was built using Winter Valley decals. A new company started up by a local ARC member.

The decals surprisingly are not something covered by the excellent major Canadian decal provider. Pre FiP markings which enable the builder to do a plane from initial delivery to slightly after the first Gulf War.

After that Canada switched to the looney leftist approved "postal truck" markings as you would not want something offensive sounding like "ARMED FORCES" painted on the side of the plane dropping bombs on your head.

 

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The Winter Valley decals I used are for a 421 squadron plane. The only 421 "marked" plane noticed in use by the desert cats of 438 and 416 during Desert Storm back in the day. (Before all the squadron markings were removed). This is another nice thing about this sheet. Every squadron of the time is in there. Really lets you know how many squadrons Canada has lost over the last 20 years of government cut backs.

The model itself went together easy enough. Built it enough times now, nice to do one fully loaded for bear. Built for the escort group build.

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Photos and text © by Shawn phantom Weiler