1/32 Academy F/A-18C Hornet  

by Dave Gauthier

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This Academy model is the first 1/32 scale kit I have ever built and "learned as I went along".  With a "Thank You" going out to the ARC website and it's members for such a descriptive and helpful resource.  This is the first model I have ever tried to weather.  The big size of the model worked to my advantage!  I used a combination of acrylic paints with my airbrush and by hand, pastels and an ink wash for weathering. 

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It was quite the experience, I personally feel the amount of weathering is overkill, but I am pretty new to this yet and still learning, but I think it turned out pretty good.  The next one will be better...............................  

Dave  

Photos and text © by Dave Gauthier