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Picture Post => Current and Finished Projects => Topic started by: anthonyp on September 28, 2005, 10:26:56 AM

Title: Italian Navy F/A-18A
Post by: anthonyp on September 28, 2005, 10:26:56 AM
This is a 1/72 Hobbycrap CF-18 done up in Italian markings.  I used decals from some AB212 ASW helo and a Eurofighter, and some ancient weapons to make this thing Italian (like the two Aspides from the old Testor's NATO weapons set).  I imagine it would fly off of Italy's CVV, the Christophe Colombo, and be supplemented by Naval Eurofighters around 2006.

Just a quick little build to see what it would look like outside of my head.  
Title: Italian Navy F/A-18A
Post by: anthonyp on September 28, 2005, 10:27:26 AM
Another view
Title: Italian Navy F/A-18A
Post by: anthonyp on September 28, 2005, 10:28:10 AM
underside...  and this will be the last one in this section for a while.
Title: Italian Navy F/A-18A
Post by: John Howling Mouse on September 28, 2005, 07:31:41 PM
Quoteunderside...  and this will be the last one in this section for a while.
Is that because you have already successfully blown us away with your productivity?????

Love it!  :wub:  
Title: Italian Navy F/A-18A
Post by: anthonyp on September 29, 2005, 05:27:26 AM
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Quoteunderside...  and this will be the last one in this section for a while.
Is that because you have already successfully blown us away with your productivity?????

Love it!  :wub:
Thanks!

And it's something like that.  I just ran out of completed models to post  :lol:

Of course, I've got another batch well under way.  Seven need weapons, one needs decals, and four need to be built, then I need an hour of good light one day to photograph them all.  I figure this next batch will be up by end of November.

:cheers:  :cheers:  
Title: Italian Navy F/A-18A
Post by: gooberliberation on September 29, 2005, 01:57:02 PM
(https://www.whatifmodellers.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.maj.com%2Fgallery%2Fgooberliberation%2Fairplanes%2Fhornetski%2Fp1010032.jpg&hash=b09ef2f123bd8116ac5e6b9624fa023451fdbe50)

Well, your hobbycraft CF-18 certainly fared much better than mine. He got hit by uh... anti aircraft guns and cannibalized by savages...
Title: Italian Navy F/A-18A
Post by: PolluxDeltaSeven on September 29, 2005, 02:53:45 PM
QuoteHe got hit by uh... anti aircraft guns and cannibalized by savages...

That's all a Hobbycraft F-18 deserves!!! :lol:  :lol: