1/48 Hasegawa F-8E VX-4 |
Gallery Article by Richard S. Hayward
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Sept 17 2003
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The Hasegawa F-8E is one of the
sweetest F-8 kits around. I used the Cutting Edge super detailed cockpit and
seat (which was very nice and seemed to be more accurate then the models) and
speedbrake. I used Tamiya and Testers acrylic paint through out.
I custom made the decals with blank decal paper and my HP deskjet along
with different sizes of stars. I got the data from the kit
decals.
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images below to see larger images
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Some of the problems
with the kit which were few. I was able to avoid them because I saw
great reviews on ARC. The only three I found were the flaps with the wing up
would not line up without hitting the side of the plane and the afterburner
sticks out too far and the kit ejection seat is all wrong.
VX-4 was
the test and evaluation squadron for the Navy and was stationed at NAS
Point Mugu down the road from where I live until they were joined with VX-5 to
make a new squadren VX-9. VX-4 flew and tested all the major fighters
the navy had.
Richard S. Hayward
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