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An idea for a Hasegawa Strike Battroid


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I'm considering ordering a Strike Battroid from Hasegawa, but I'm not going to do it in the traditional colour scheme...

Here's my rather... unusual idea. I plan to paint the Strike 1S as if it were used in the Royal Canadian Airforce. I'm leaning towards using a CF-18's paint scheme as a base, but what I'm really going to need is the proper decals, and lots of CF-18 pics (or any other Canadian fighter).

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

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http://www.airforce.forces.ca/equip/cf18_h...t_summary_e.htm

Here's a couple :)

Good luck with the project, i'd love to see some progress pics

Thanks, I already got some pics from there. It was the first link that appeared when I typed "CF-18" into google.

The project is still in the planning stages, and what I'm really looking for is a nice set of decals to mark up the Strike 1S... Any suggestions?

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Hasegawa released a CF-18 (1:72) model back in the late 80's or early 90's. Of course it comes with some appropriate size decals.

Thanks for the idea. However, when I inputed CF-18 at HLJ.com all I got was this: http://www.hlj.com/cgi-perl/hljpage.cgi?HSG00189

I'm sure that somewhere on HLJ.com there's a regular CF-18 available...

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On the old boards, Crazy Canuck had made a VF-1 done up in modern CAF colors. It'd be buried somewhere in his "Color Scheme" thread.

Edit: The colors for the low-viz aren't really right for the CF-18. The CF-18 is a lighter grey, without any "blue" pigmentation. Try http://www.aircraftresourcecenter.com for CF-18 pics. :)

Edit 2: Leading Edge Decals makes Cf-18 decals in 1/48 and 1/72 scales.

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I'm kinda weary on putting on a false canopy on the underside of the cockpit... Do you think I should?

I think the underside "canopy" looks a little goofy, but it seems to be a valid enough idea in principle. If you're doing a Battroid kit, then you probably won't see much of it anyway so you could skip it if you feel leery about it. It's certainly unique, and if you're going to the trouble of replicating CAF colors, then I say go ahead. :)

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