As a medical consultant
in one of our country's tertiary hospitals, I spend almost all of my day seeing
patients. Free time is mostly spent with my growing family. As such, there is
little (and indeed precious) hours spent for our beloved hobby. For a quick and
easy build I sometimes go for those 1/144 aircraft kits from Dragon or Revell.
Here's my latest that I had
actually finished over the weekend. This is one of Dragon's F/A-18E Super
Hornet. With only a quick build in mind, I made this one straight out of the
box. Even by just using Tamiya acrylics, I figured a lot of my time was
actually spent waiting for the paint to adequately dry. The livery I chose was
for one of the birds of VFA-105 "Gunslingers". Since these kits have
deep recessed lines, I opted to do minimal wash.
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This is
actually the third Dragon Super Hornet that I've built. The first two
"microbugs" (as a friend once put it) were two seater F versions
that I made sometime last year. One of which to my surprise won First
Place in its category in the 6th IPMS Philippines Bert Anido Scale
Modeling Competition.
Doc Raphy, proud
member of IPMS Philippines Bert Anido.
Raphael L. Marbella,
MD
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