This is my Hasegawa F-18F. Not a bad build at all. Overall it's a shake a bake wunderkit. But not without a few things.

I found the way the upper fuselage fits to the lower at the nose less then wonderful. I had a 1-2cm gap. Fine if I'm building something from Hobby craft but not so acceptable for the price we paid for this latest Hasegawa release. Took more then a bit of putty to fix.

Now having said that, the rear fuselage fits wonderful, much easier as well then say Hasegawa's baby hornet series. The intakes, I found them great, simple and a great fit, much better again then the baby hornet.

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I really liked the decal sheet. Especially the addition of little 1/48 scale helmet decals. those little skulls and yellow stripes do wonders to dress up the model. For the main markings I used Hobby decals dry stencils which I won in the tomcat group build. I felt adding the pilots was required due to all the questions on this web site regarding the accuracy of the modern VFA-103 advanced cockpit. If you cant see it.....who's to say its wrong?

I was kind of surprised the landing gear was not white metal but still found them very acceptable.