eduard F/A-18E Superhornet “SUPERBUG” 1:48 - build review

eduard F/A-18E Superhornet “SUPERBUG” 1:48
Full Review with Dave Coward

As you’ll see in a minute, there was change of plan! Here’s hoe it all turned out – hope you like it?
eduard F/A-18E Superhornet “SUPERBUG” 1:48

And now the full story

The original plan for the build was to build this one as the aircraft from Top Gun “Maverick”. To go along with my F-14, A-4 and MiG-28 builds. Fightertown decals have this decal option on their Best of the Best ‘Top Gun’ decal sheet (48077v2). Three things eventually stopped this plan:

The decals on the sheet were for an ‘F’ two-seater – this is a single seater
The decal sheet only has the blue tail stripes and you need to mask and paint the fuselage blue stripes – I couldn’t get a paint match for the blue shade even though I had the FS number.
Revell released a “Top Gun Maverick” boxing of an ‘E’ model which Geoff kindly sent me to build so another plan was needed for this build. Have a look for this build in the magazine.

This boxing is actually the Hasegawa kit with some eduard colour PE for the cockpit, a resin seat and resin wheels. It also has a very nice set of decals produced by Cartograf covering 3 very colourful options and one tone down option. I could have happily done any of these options but I had a set of decals from DXM decals for a rather nice DIGICAM scheme for VFA-137 Kestrels and this fitted the bill for what I wanted to do with this kit.