Fascination

Ever since seeing bright red F/A-18 Super Hornets in VFA-102 "Diamondbacks" CAG colors in the last Australian airshow, I have been on a Navy plane binge. Phantoms, Hornets, Orions, Crusaders, Tomcats, Corsairs, Prowlers... did I say Phantoms? Being a fan of the new re-imagined Battlestar Galactica series hasn't helped either. Its been a gull grey, hi-viz kaleidoscope since, a plethora of dull highlighted by red, black, yellow and double nuts. At the rate I am going, I am probably going to have a Carrier air group ready in a few months, and needing the space to display it all. I'll probably start doing what carriers do; start folding wings, hang things off edge and maybe send a few of the birds up on CAP and get that Alert 5 bird on the catapult.

So here is the latest addition to the air group. Hasegawa's F/A-18 Super Hornet in Lo-viz markings of VFA-103 "Jolly Rogers" and Revell's P-3C Orion (re-boxed Hasegawa) Update III in VP-30 out of NAS Jacksonville, FL. Both in 1/72 scale and finished around the same time (there was a warm day that freakily hit Melbourne in the middle of winter.) (It helps airbrushing.)