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1/48 Monogram F/A-18A Blue Angels Hornet

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  • Member since
    July 2004
  • From: Sonora Desert
1/48 Monogram F/A-18A Blue Angels Hornet
Posted by stikpusher on Saturday, August 26, 2023 2:47 PM

This is my Monogram F/A-18A Blue Angels, done as the lead solo aircraft, #5, for the first year of Hornets, 1987. That was the only season that the Blues did not have the fence installed on the LEXs in front of the vertical stabilizers. I built this kit OOB, aside from modifying the stabilator attachment point using some aluminum tubing, to aid in seam clean up back there. Also the kit has a paper "H" to cut out from the instruction sheet to add to the ejection seat as parachute harness risers. I substituted some 1mm Tamiya making tape cut to the proper lengths instead. I used enamel Humbrol Gloss Midnight Blue and Model Master Blue Angels Yellow for the main colors, and a set of Milspec Decals in place of the kit decals.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Thanks for looking, comments and critiques welcomed ;)

 

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  • Member since
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  • From: Sonora Desert
Posted by stikpusher on Saturday, August 26, 2023 2:54 PM

 

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    February 2003
  • From: Between LA and OC, SoCal
Posted by oortiz10 on Saturday, August 26, 2023 2:58 PM

Clean and shiny. Just like the real thing! Great work on the gloss finish. Actually, nice work on all of 'em.

I have one that I want to do in VFC-12 colors, but I'll need to scratch some fences and find replacements for the Sparrow rails.

-O

-It's Omar, but they call me "O".

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    April 2003
  • From: USA
Posted by keavdog on Saturday, August 26, 2023 3:45 PM

Awesome job on that old kit!

Thanks,

John

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  • From: Sonora Desert
Posted by stikpusher on Saturday, August 26, 2023 5:04 PM

O and John, thank you.

O, I'm looking forward to seeing your VFC-12 Hornet. They have some great markings options. I actually took the Sparrow rails off of a C Hornet in my stash to use on the Libya Raider, since that kit came with the FLIR and LST pods. The fences should be an easy scratch. I do beleive that somebody makes some as AM now as well.

John, it may be an older kit, but a good one.

 

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N is for NO SURVIVORS...

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  • From: Twin cities, MN
Posted by missileman2000 on Sunday, August 27, 2023 11:38 AM

Very nice.

 

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  • From: Sonora Desert
Posted by stikpusher on Sunday, August 27, 2023 2:48 PM

Thank you Don. In the end, she came out as intended.

 

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U is for URANIUM... BOMBS!

N is for NO SURVIVORS...

       - Plankton

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  • From: Narvon, Pa.
Posted by fox on Sunday, August 27, 2023 9:05 PM

B-e-a-u-t-i-f-u-l work Stik! Bow Down Bow Down Bow Down

Stay safe.

Jim Captain

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  • From: Ohio (USA)
Posted by DRUMS01 on Sunday, August 27, 2023 9:48 PM

I know you made a comment in another post regarding the size of some decals, but I think this came out really nice.

Great modeling!

 

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  • From: Sonora Desert
Posted by stikpusher on Sunday, August 27, 2023 10:00 PM

Jim and Ben, thanks for looking in and your kind comments. I truly appreciate them!

 

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  • From: Commonwealth of Virginia
Posted by Tal Afar Dave on Saturday, September 16, 2023 2:45 PM

Hey Stick!!

Great job on another Monogram classic!!  As a proud member of the Monogram Mafia I am always looking for these beauties here on FSM forums.  You did not disappoint, sir!!

I am not dead; but have only been medically deadlined for the past three summers.  Hoping to get back into the groove with a new building workbench, thanks to my wife.

Keep up the great work and keep those Monogram classics flying!!

TAD

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Posted by burrito king on Saturday, September 16, 2023 7:19 PM

Hi stikpusher, amazing paint job and detail all around. Something to inspire lesser modelers like myself.

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  • From: Sonora Desert
Posted by stikpusher on Saturday, September 16, 2023 9:59 PM

Thanks guys.

I'd say more, but the stupid pop ups crash this site while I type up anything longer.

 

F is for FIRE, That burns down the whole town!

U is for URANIUM... BOMBS!

N is for NO SURVIVORS...

       - Plankton

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  • Member since
    January 2003
  • From: West of the rock and east of the hard place!
Posted by murph on Tuesday, September 26, 2023 3:33 PM

Outstanding results on a tough kit.  I've built two of them as CF-18s and they were a real bugger to get a half decent finish.  Nice work, stik.

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Posted by GMorrison on Tuesday, September 26, 2023 4:03 PM

stikpusher

Thanks guys.

I'd say more, but the stupid pop ups crash this site while I type up anything longer.

 

Well that is a beauty. How did you come to use the Humbrol Blue? It is  a super finish.

 

Regarding long texts- I use Robs trick of typing in word and then paste because losing an entry in mid flight makes me ANGRY!!

 

Bill

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  • Member since
    July 2004
  • From: Sonora Desert
Posted by stikpusher on Wednesday, September 27, 2023 1:13 PM

GMorrison

 

 
stikpusher

Thanks guys.

I'd say more, but the stupid pop ups crash this site while I type up anything longer.

 

 

 

Well that is a beauty. How did you come to use the Humbrol Blue? It is  a super finish.

 

 

Regarding long texts- I use Robs trick of typing in word and then paste because losing an entry in mid flight makes me ANGRY!!

 

Bill

 

That was something of an accidental discovery...

John Eaton had mentioned using blue under metallic paints instead of black, so I bought Humbrol's darkest gloss blue available for my Thunderstreak project as the base below the aluminum paint. When I saw how the color looked, I checked out what it's FS color was, if it had one, and low and behold upon checking, turns out that it's a match for Blue Angels Blue. 
Word, is a Microsoft product, that is not on my iPad, which is what I use for most of my online forum stuff...

 

F is for FIRE, That burns down the whole town!

U is for URANIUM... BOMBS!

N is for NO SURVIVORS...

       - Plankton

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  • Member since
    July 2004
  • From: Sonora Desert
Posted by stikpusher on Wednesday, September 27, 2023 1:20 PM

murph

Outstanding results on a tough kit.  I've built two of them as CF-18s and they were a real bugger to get a half decent finish.  Nice work, stik.

 

Thanks Murph. I know what you mean, but I have figured out a few work arounds for the fit issues on this kit. I have a couple more in my stash to build as a USN OEF Hornet, and as a Spanish Hornet from the Balkan Wars.

 

F is for FIRE, That burns down the whole town!

U is for URANIUM... BOMBS!

N is for NO SURVIVORS...

       - Plankton

LSM

 

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