1/48 Hasegawa F-8

by Vladimir Nazarov (Nazar)

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One of a few  of my F-8's in 48th scale, which is a Hasegawa kit and I found the cockpit to be less detailed than the Revell kit.  This is one of the more recent releases from Hasegawa and it is excellent and it does have enough detail to build it out of the box, but in my opinion all the same......it would be possible to open the air-brake door and the kits looks much better with the air brake in the deployed position.

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The Aires airbrake conversion set allowed me to correct this defect, but it was a tricky set for me to find, but installing it wasn't too difficult.  The refueling probe was scratchbuilt and the cockpit is from Aires.  One more thing lacking on this kit is the weapons, but I already expect this from Hasegawa, therefore AGM-12B Bullpup were borrowed from one of their weapons sets.

It took about about two months to assemble and paint this F-8, with breaks to work on others kits.  For finishing, I used ModelMaster acrylic.  Weathering was accomplished with a multicoloured pastel chalks and water color.  Decals were from many sources including the kit and a Revell kit and the letters AJ are painted on.

The assembly process was easy and a great pleasure to me.

Vladimir

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Photos and text © by Vladimir Nazarov