One of
the first sub-projects I ever started was a set of Blue Angels aircraft. It
began in the mid-90s if I remember rightly, and I made it to the F9F when
things sort of petered out. Recently I’ve been trying to expand the number of
aircraft types that I finish and try to decrease the number of repeat customers
like Hurricanes and Eurofighters.
Next in
order was the Grumman F11F Tiger. All we’ve had for ages is the somewhat
elderly Hasegawa kit. It is not the most modern, but it does go together well
enough for a kit of its vintage. The plastic they used (blue, inevitably) was
rather brittle and didn’t really take sanding all that well. I happened to use
a specifically Blue Angels boxing of the kit, so the decals were provided.
About
the only markings I didn’t use were the wing and tail tips, since I decided
paint would be a better looking option. Xtracolour does a Blue Angels Yellow,
and has two different Blues: one for A-4 and previous and one for the F-18. I
used Alclad White Aluminum for the wing and tail leading edges. The decals
cooperated, helped along with some setting solution.
This
summer, once the display storage is all sorted out, I’ll be taking some group
photos of the projects from the past that feature similarly-themed types. The
Blue Angels group will definitely be one of those.
This is
completed aircraft #505 (3 aircraft, 1 ordnance, 0 vehicles for the year 2019),
finished in February of 2019.
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