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Picture Post => Current and Finished Projects => Topic started by: anthonyp on December 10, 2005, 11:38:33 AM

Title: Indonesian F/A-18C
Post by: anthonyp on December 10, 2005, 11:38:33 AM
Get comfy, there's three more parts after this one.

Here's that really awful 1/72 Trumpeter F/A-18C/D kit that came with a tube of "glue" and peel-and-stick decals.  The shapes of the parts was just wrong, and the fit really bad.  Let's not even look at the weapons, which, at best, are suitable for cutting up.

The inspiration for this one came when I was looking at the Aztec decals I got this summer, and saw how Indonesian F-16's were painted when they first took delivery of them.  Really, any plane would look attractive painted like that, but I was in my F/A-18 building mode, and built this.

I armed it with two AIM-7's, two Sea Eagles, and two AA-11's.
Title: Indonesian F/A-18C
Post by: anthonyp on December 10, 2005, 11:39:03 AM
another view
Title: Indonesian F/A-18C
Post by: anthonyp on December 10, 2005, 11:39:39 AM
top view
Title: Indonesian F/A-18C
Post by: anthonyp on December 10, 2005, 11:40:06 AM
underside
Title: Indonesian F/A-18C
Post by: John Howling Mouse on December 10, 2005, 11:56:49 AM
But it looks so GOOD here, whaddaya talkin' about?

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Title: Indonesian F/A-18C
Post by: Captain Canada on December 27, 2005, 04:45:05 PM
Sweet....love the paint and the load.

Does look like a crappy kit. The wings and the nose look wierd !