1/48 Hasegawa F-8s

Gallery Article by Shawn "Phantom" Weiler on Feb 10 2010

 

These are some Hasegawa 1/48 F-8 Crusaders. The newest two built for the Supersucker group build of F-8s and A-7s. The decals have been in the stash for many years just waiting for the opportunity for use. The VF-111 Sundowners sheet is a at least 20+ year old Superscale sheet. It was really built to replace the CAG VF-111 Crusader I built a number of years ago. Both the VF-111s were from the USS Shangri-La in the early 70s. CVW-8 of course.

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The other Crusader with the big yellow arrow is a Aeromaster sheet off the USS Forrestal back in the very early 60s, as always for me while attached to CVW-8.

The other background jet is a 10-15 year old Monogram jet of VF-84. Like all these group builds we have on ARC, gets the stash down to reasonable amounts.

Shawn "Phantom" Weiler

Photos and text © by Shawn "Phantom" Weiler