This
is my Academy F/A-18c, bought from Luckymodel.com.
The kit is almost
straight out of the box except for the decals. I chose these
decals because this F-18 flew in a exercise here in the Netherlands
during the Fighter Weapon Instructor Training
(FWIT) in 1996.
With a lot
of photo’s which I had taken, I could make this model.
The
model is painted with an airbrush using Vallejo Air colors. I used preshading
but this went wrong when
Vallejo
is very tricky when it comes to laying a thin layer of paint.
I therefore
used postshading to make the plane appear a bit weathered.
Decals
are from CAM
and where excellent. Very thin and good with MicroSOL. One mishap, for
this kit although, are the decals from CAM
are the collision lights, they where about 3-4mm too long and don’t fit
in the frames of the kit. Also the danger triangles are not present with
the CAM
decals. In the kit there are only the grey, toned down, versions.
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The
kit was really fun to build and I would build one more of these. It’s an
expensive kit, but is worth the money with it’s outstanding detail and
parts.
Greetings
from the Netherlands,
happy modelling.
Ronald
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