May 23, 2020
This was my second try with aircraft in in-flight-dirty conconfiguration. I chose the Kinetic F/A-18A+/CF-188 kit to complete my F-14 to F/A-18 projects. Modifications focused mainly on the landing gears and a supporting tube inside the rear fuselage. The details of main gear legs provided by the kit was poor, so I replaced the main undercarriages with Hasegawa ones (in fact they were from an F/A-18F kit along with the main and nose wheels). I chosed Ala 15 scheme as to avoid painting the false canopy under the nose section. I grabbed a pair of TAURUS KEPD 350 cruise missiles and a pair of IRIS-T missiles to complete the loadout. (The missiles came from my Revell Eurofighter kit)