Revell F/A 18-E Super Hornet
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Whine all you want about the merits of decals on instrument panels, but they create a very aesthetically pleasing (and accurate!) replica.
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I discovered my new favorite oil wash quite by accident. I was going to mix a bit of black acrylic in tap water, and I grabbed the first big brush I could find. It just so happened to be holding some yellow dye leftover from the F-16 canopy, and lo and be
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It would have taken me somewhere around 5-8 hours to go in and do all the piping myself. The kit's pipes are actually raised ridges, but you wouldn't have known that had I not told you.
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I carved away the molded launch bar linkages and replaced them with some music wire, as well as thinning out the launch bar itself.
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While the kit's simplified landing gear gives novices a huge boost in overall aesthetic quality in their finished product, they have some major accuracy issues.
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I carved away excess plastic to recreate the strut linkages.
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I applaud Revell for the perfect fitting intake parts. They made it very easy to get a "seamless" trunk.
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Steel turbines, ready for a charcoal wash.
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I scratchbuilt the little box in front since that portion of the wheel well will be fairly visible from the outside.
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1/2 oiled, 1/2 clean
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The kit's instrument hood was for reasons I don't fully understand, very innacurate, so I chose to build a HUD projector out of styrene sheet.
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I drilled out this vent to make the belly more interesting.
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One issue with the Revell kit is that the cockpit sidewalls aren't as wide as they should be, so I added a few styrene strips to remedy that.
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The ejection seat was updated with new cushions, belts, and wiring.
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The finished seat.
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I build a sidewall control panel by running some wires through a rectangular piece of scrap, and clipping them short enough that they look like buttons.
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The installed sidewall panel. It's nice looking, though, I don't see why it couldn't have been included in the mold.
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The completed cockpit tub. All in all, I think it looks 90% as good as a resin kit would have, especially considering some of the scratchbuilt handles I put in.
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Spares for the new decklid.
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The rear decklid looks nice, but lacks in realism.
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Closeup of the scratchbuilt-ish canopy actuator. While it's still undersize, the bracing behind the seat will look good once the canopy is installed.
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The fit on the parts was practically 100%. Revell gets an A for ease of assembly.
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Really starting to look like a Hornet!
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Weathering with pigment pen and tempura.
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The panel lines and rivets are being filled in with a blend of about 50% acrylic black, 25% golden airbrush medium, and 25% water. You can see the panels before they are cleaned up in the top right of the picture.
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The completed build. Need to do a proper photoshoot sometime.
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21 March 2016, 20:29
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Photos from my budget build.