1/48 Hasegawa F-18E Super Hornet

Gallery Article by Shawn "phantom" Weiler on Mar 4 2016

 

      

Talk about your over the top paint jobs. If American test squadron could fit any more stores on this airplane......Well that would be too many.

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This is a Hasegawa F-18E in 1/48 scale with resin seat and exhaust stacks from Steel Beach. The decals are from the tightly packed boy do you get a lot of nice models from this sheet by Fightertown. This sheet allows two to three Phantoms, two Tomcats and three Super Hornets to be made from various US Navy test squadrons. In this case a current paint scheme from VX-9.

Kind of prefer the "slightly" more subtle scheme for the F-18F...Hmmmm. Also included a shot with my other USN F-18 test birds.

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Photos and text © by Shawn "phantom" Weiler