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F-18E Super Bug: Finished
badpony
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Posted: Sunday, May 04, 2003 - 06:36 AM UTC
whew, I can finally say that word, finished. I glued on the last pair of ordanence last night, 2 AIM-9 Sidewinders from a Hasegawa weapons set. This was a fun build, I loved the quality of the Black Box cockpit set, the Two Bobs decals, but can't exactly say the same for Italeri's kit. I did buy their 2 seater version which I'm working now (the Black Box set for that just arrived along with Two Bob's markings for VFA-14's sister squad, VFA-41 The Black Aces). On to the pics!









enjoy!
Dmd
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Posted: Sunday, May 04, 2003 - 09:47 PM UTC
hi

nice work buddy !!!
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Posted: Monday, May 05, 2003 - 03:22 AM UTC
:-) Nice looking Hornet, you have made a very good job of it
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Posted: Monday, May 05, 2003 - 03:26 AM UTC
Ya know, it's a brave man that displays pics of his aircraft taken head-on. Great job, man.
RedDevil
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Posted: Wednesday, May 07, 2003 - 01:49 PM UTC
Man your Hornet Rocks! I am an armour guy but seeing this bad boy almost makes me want to take a ride on the wrong side and build myself one of those bad boys. Keep up the great work

Cheers
Shawn
Tin_Can
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Posted: Wednesday, May 07, 2003 - 04:05 PM UTC
Pony, nice lookin' bug. Must have missed this post earlier. Really, really nice. I love the loadout.

A couple things that I'm going to have to research: I think the gear doors are outlined in red on the inside and does the intake stay white on the inside as you have it?

A great Hornet to be proud of. Well done.
Tin_Can
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Posted: Wednesday, May 07, 2003 - 04:21 PM UTC
In my research, I did find this (be sure to look at the hi-res versions to see the detail:

http://www.news.navy.mil/view_single.asp?id=7001

http://www.news.navy.mil/view_single.asp?id=6814

In looking through quite a few pics it looks like you have the intakes correct (white part-way in) and the red outline on the is on more than not. Either way, nice build.

Here's the link for the Navy News Gallery which is where I found those pics:

http://www.news.navy.mil/view_photos.asp

TwistedFate
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Posted: Wednesday, May 07, 2003 - 04:30 PM UTC

Quoted Text

Here's the link for the Navy News Gallery which is where I found those pics:

http://www.news.navy.mil/view_photos.asp



And just how long were you planning on sitting on all that eye candy???
badpony
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Posted: Saturday, May 10, 2003 - 11:01 PM UTC

Quoted Text

In my research, I did find this (be sure to look at the hi-res versions to see the detail:

http://www.news.navy.mil/view_single.asp?id=7001

http://www.news.navy.mil/view_single.asp?id=6814

In looking through quite a few pics it looks like you have the intakes correct (white part-way in) and the red outline on the is on more than not. Either way, nice build.

Here's the link for the Navy News Gallery which is where I found those pics:

http://www.news.navy.mil/view_photos.asp



yeah, I got a quick lesson in checking references. Assuming that it happened with all Navy aircraft because I had seen it on F/A-18C's along F-14's and S-3's, I painted the door edges red. Then I found this photo of the VFA-14's CAG bird and saw plain edges
http://www.news.navy.mil/view_single.asp?id=5514
it seems like alot of the Super Hornets are arriving with plain door edges.

here's my next subject:
http://www.news.navy.mil/view_single.asp?id=5649
using Italeri's 1/48 F/A-18F, a Black Box cockpit set and Two Bobs decals, same as the E model. Should be fun :-)
Tin_Can
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Posted: Sunday, May 11, 2003 - 12:28 AM UTC

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Here's the link for the Navy News Gallery which is where I found those pics:

http://www.news.navy.mil/view_photos.asp



And just how long were you planning on sitting on all that eye candy???


I thought most people knew about it. Certainly wasn't trying to hord it...lol! I'll post a new topic in the a/c forum letting people know about it because you can get some great reference shots.
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