I've had numerous people commenting on this video that "airshow jets are kept in immaculate condition". As stated in the video, this bug went back into front line service still in red. Here is an image of it from Maple Flag the year after in 2018: images.app.goo.gl/gKzyN8jBeEEA4Qx5A Note the weathering and armament. Lastly, people keep commenting I am saying "decal" wrong. Maybe according to your regional dialect I am, but not in my area. Just because I say it differently than you doesn't mean I'm wrong and you are right. Same as the letter "Z"... Lieutenant...etc. if that is upsetting you so much, the internet may not be the place for you.

Fantastic. The weathering in my opinion was tastefully done. I will also add the add the way you narrate your build makes it easy to follow along. That has to be the bright spot of your display cabinet. Well done Sir.

Despite all the issues, this model is stunning in the end. Beautiful work.

Really enjoyed all the history you supplied with your build. Please continue in the same format makes for a superb video....

I really like how you explain the trials and tribulations of the " making of " the kit. Some others just show how it all come together like a miracle. Very good job on the kit and the video !

Stunning looking Hornet Scheme! Love those CAF paint schemes and this ones no exception. Awesome build.

unbelievable kit!that paint job is the greatest thing iv ever seen!

Absolutely beautiful. I love the job you did. 👍👍nice touch with the weathering.

This painting wizardry has earned you a sub. Absolutely amazing

Fantastic and A very good format of talking and working Regards Tom. ( Glasgow Scotland) Will definitely carry on watching.

That is one great looking Hornet, TMG! I really like the contrast you achieved with the gray undersides and the weathering!

Wow what a grate looking aircraft... Love the decals makes it an unusual look bird nice one my friend...Nick

I've heard those decals can be a beast, it was cool to see your methods of applying them. That is my favorite livery for the Canadian hornets. Nicely done.

Unbelievablly well built. Fantastic job!

Thanks for the heads up! I have a Kinetic F-18 lined up and this video will help a lot. I just finished a Kinetic Texas F-16 and it was a blast! Though I had issues with the decals, they melted with Mr. Hobby softener and the decals broke apart, it was weird!

Great build and stunning final effect 👍my CANADA 150 is waiting to be built and for sure I will use Your build as fantastic guideline. 👍

Incredible job.....amazing details, especially the decals....congrats for persevering and completing a supermodel.....a difficult build with its many problems ending up to being a nice build.....must be a fine feeling of accomplishment so well done.

Very nice build! Clean, simple and i like the background information. Got a new sub. The best demo Paint job for me was the dutch f16 demo team. The black and Orange lion were awesome. To bad they quited.

Awesome build !!!! I have one of these and it is being saved until I have a few more builds completed before I tackle it. Thanks for the tips much appreciated and Great Job !!!

Damn that red looks good on the hornet! Also I understand your pain about the decals.... I used this livery as a base and edited it in photoshop for a custom livery in DCS and although it’s not nearly as tedious as what you had to do here, I understand and appreciate it so much more. Great job!

Thanks for the shout out about the decals!

Superb job on this one! And to answer your question - I always loved that eagle themed Mi-24 Hind of the Hungarian Air Force, looks so nice and unique.

great job on a challenging kit! Love the Red!

KUDOS to you on showing what a lot of people don t show and its the fiddly part were you have to "fit" both fuselagem and wings... A lot of respect for that! Its not just about building a beautiful Hornet like you did its about warning those who have less experience on the dificulties ahead! Subed!

i had the same problems building the 20th aniversary hornet decals went not to bad with all the curve. great job over coming the problems makes you better

I've only just discovered your channel and videos and I can assure you, that your work is beautiful! definitely up there with the Inner nerd & Plasmo, will definitely be following your channel more. I'm soon to start my Tamiya 1/48 F-14D as Vf-213 black lions, as you were talking about those decals you used it sounded like they are like Tamiya and aren't the best decals, makes me want to build my Hasegawa 1/48 F/A-18E now, will be looking for a C model in future too. Again love your video well laid out, clear instructions and heads up etc, beautiful all together. Will definitely be eagerly awaiting for all your builds now. Cheers from little NZ!

Nice build. With all the finicky decals involved I decided just to buy the Hobby Master diecast version of the model. However, I do have the Kinetic K48030 kit sitting on my self. Thanks for the tips on putting it together.

Just to correct you on the number of CF-188's Canada purchased. In 1980 Canada purchased 138 CF-188's with 98 being the single seat variants (CF-188A) and 40 dual-seat variants (CF-188B) with options for 20 more, which were never exercised. The CF-188 was delivered starting in 1982 with the last one in 1988. There were 3 Squadrons permanently based in Germany totaling 54 CF-188's. The remainder, 5 squadrons, 2 which would reinforce Europe in the event of war, were based in Canada for defense and training. In 2002 major upgrades to the CF-188 were started. 62 single seat and 18 dual seat models (total 80) were upgraded to the current F-18 C and D standards. Today there are only 76 operational CF-188's in service. 20 have been lost in accidents with the 42 remaining being used for spare parts, training aids, donated to museums or sitting in storage awaiting disposal. Due to a severe lack of operational readiness of the current CF-188's in service, Canada has purchased 25 used F-18's from Australia, 18 for operational use and the remaining 7 for testing and spare parts. A new fighter competition is currently underway but the CF-188, due to political blundering, will not be replaced till around 2032

Beautiful result. I find the Aboriginal painted Hornets stunning to look at, and damn near impossible to get right when building them (but the fun is in the making). Also love seeing the Tiger Meet aircraft

Thanks for this video. I have this kit with the standard decals, that came with the Auzzie, decals as well. I am just getting back into models after many years. I will keep this on the shelf for a bit, after seeing this video. Currently working on a mk1 spitfire from Tamiya, and I must say it went together like a charm. Just in primer stage now. Keep up the great videos, and I really like the commentary.👍

another fantastic build

Great build and review my friend

Beautifully done!👌🤙👍

I just got the Phantom Rocking Rhino and the paint schema looks fantastic. I enjoy your videos very informative and practical.

I really like the colour scheme of the Blue Angels. The Navy Blue and Gold go together really well

Very nice build! I had the same problems with their F16c IDF in 1/72 scale. A lot of parts weren't numbered and also the decal sheet for the weapons were missing. They did however sent me a new sheet after sending an them an email though, which was really nice of them

I really like the way you painted the intakes. Great job on the hornet.

That is a great-looking scheme!

Stunning!

Excellent job.

Respect very nice painted looks fantastic, thumb up.

Love your videos. I have been going thru them all.

Beautiful work. There is a display case at M-C International in Ottawa with 2 CF-188's in it, one of them in this paint scheme. I immediately thought of this video when I saw it last week waiting to fly out. I believe they are the Kinetic kits but I could be wrong.

In particular I enjoyed the many schemes the Italians applied to their F-104’s over the years. Great job

Cool!!! I saw it really well. Have a nice day~

I really dig you weathering it most wouldn't - great choice!

Beautiful! I will be moving onto this kit soon, but also the NORAD as well. I too hate decalling...Love the Cricut approach! (hint hint)

Enjoyed the video! The maple leaf decal on the spine is what scared me off the kit!

The F/A-18 is my all time favorite jet. I just wish Tamiya would start producing them. That would be a dream come true. You did a great job on a troublesome kit.

Very nice I like the history at the beginning

I am not the kinda guy who like these schemes a lot...but I must say you did a hell of a good job there! It looks amazing!!!!!

Great work!

decalling has always been my favorite part of modeling, and having this on the stash, i just hope i enjoy doing it, (my plan is to build it in flight mode)

Looks great! Hope to see a video on that NORAD one you mentioned!

First off, great job sticking with it. The finished Hornet looks amazing in red. I am starting work on the Kinetic F-16Sufa. So far as I can tell, all the parts are there. But stopped to try and get a Stuka done in time for a September show.

That's my favorite livery, was lucky to see it twice in 2017

I’m about to build to 20th Anniversary livery CF188. This video was great for me. Btw even when they are on the show circuit the Canadian Hornets do get very dirty. As you said they are normal operating jets too between shows

Wow -- that design looks good in those colors! The Canadian Maple Leaf is a nice, basic design which is why it adapts so well to different situations. 2 superheroes -- Captain Canuck and Guardian use the Canadian flag in their costumes --, and now this jet. I wonder what they will replace the F-18 with in Canada? Their jets are about as hard-used as the Legacy Hornets have been in US Navy service. The USN F-18 A-Ds were so hard-worked they had to be retired from carrier duty. They passed on the least-worn planes onto the US Marine Corps which was getting desperately short of serviceable fighter jets. I know Canada bought at least 24 used Australian F-18A+'s because those were in better condition than anything the USN had available to sell which is not much anymore...!

Obviously they don’t have anyone to build a test model. I had the F16 and it went into the trash. After all your struggles,this looks really nice. Stay safe 🍻🌲 I’m partial to the 51 Tigers NATO Tiger panavia tornado.

My personal favorite show a/c is the 441 Sq CF 104 Checker Bird. Although I really like the 150 anniversary scheme. I also like the Battle of Britain scheme done a few years ago. Another nice build, but seeing how difficult the decalling was I do not think I will be building one for myself. I do not mind doing decals, but I am a lot ham fisted......

I brought this fa18/cf18 kit from kinetic models at an airshow in July, it’s a new tooling black or gold edition kit, from what I was being told the new tooling and revised editions are equivalent to TAMIYA it even comes with photo etch parts in the box too, but I must say the detail in it looks amazing! And I can’t wait to eventually start it when I’ve finished my 3 other projects😂

Great build mate, that decal scheme looks a little crazy to apply, my personal opinion I'm not fussed on the colour scheme.

Excelente 👍 gran trabajo saludos cordiales desde 🇨🇱

Awesome ! Great work ! I now want to go out an build one ! Like that

Nice job and video. Its a tricky kit to get looking nice and you sure did that! Liking the paint scheme, overall grey gets boring and repetitive. Keep it up!

Отличная,аккуратная работа!!!мастера!!!

The 20th Anniversary RAAF is my favourite. Flown at the 2005 Avalon base in Victoria Australia. The Canadian is a beautiful hornet also.

Great job!

Brand new Typhoon 2021 display team livery is absolutely wonderful

I'm quite fond of the Saab J35 Oe Draken in red with white stripe. It's a strange looking bird to begin with, like a rejected design for 1 of Anderson's Thunderbirds, even moreso in that paint scheme. Not only is the stripe quite difficult to place accurately, but it also has a rather challenging, large decal on the top surface which required significant amounts of soft and set to get it to conform properly. Odd looking though it may be, it's still one of my all-time favourite builds. Other than that, the Tiger Meet paint schemes applied to the British GR4 Tornadoes were usually very nice.

wonderfoul

what about the blue camo colour scheme on the su-27

Awesome ☺️

just ordered it, looks beautiful

I don’t know why but hearing the word Scotland makes me so happy. It’s really weird cause I know I’m from there but I don’t think anyone else feels happy just hearing the name of the country they’re from 😂

Beautiful job and a very striking paint scheme make this a highly unique (and challenging) model, well done! Only thing I noticed was a slight orange peel here and there, not sure if the camera angle was responsible or you found that to be the case... congrats on a gorgeous outcome!

Greetings from the UK. I had similar fit problems with an Academy F111C, the section forward of the the rear of the cockpit refused to fit the rear fuselage. I had to fit alignment tabs to the rear in order that the flex in the main fuselage section would conform to the cockpit section, then use loads of filler(Perfect Putty) to achieve a level surface. That was weeks back and I'm still not satisfied with the panel line re-instatement, oh well I will get there eventually. BTW if my airbrush was throwing all those bubbles back into the colour cup I would give it a thorough strip-down and clean!

305SQ JASDF 50th anniversary livery is the best painting I ever seen.

This model is a real eye-catcher!

I'm not so fond of special/anniversary schemes... I do enjoy the three tones green, wrap around camouflage used by the Luftwaffe on their F-104s. Good result though with this red "mounted" Hornet! And cool sense of humour there at the end. :-)

Great video. I'd love to build a CF-18 one of these days. As a fellow Canadian I agree, it's everyone else that says decal wrong. DEEcal just doesn't sound right to me! Keep up the great work with your channel.

Like it verry mutch nice build

Bravo!

The 2015 paint scheme commemorating the 75th anniversary of the Battle of Brittain was the best.

Am impressed. I would have the model take a test flight! Kaboom.

I like the Us Navy centennial of flight schemes...super cool imho

I have a CanadianF-18 Tiger meet Cold lake 2003 Rc turbine jet. Do you know where. I can get a plastic or die cast model?

I have a quick follow up question about the Kinetic CF-18. I am just wrapping up the Meng Super Hornet and it's got me eager to build a CF-18. Aside from lining up the fuselage halves as you discuss in your video were there any other major issues you encountered?

Are you using the Mr. Surfacer 1200 as a sort of putty for fine cracks?

Awesome video, intact I’ll be using as ref to help me build my first CF-188 actually it be my first fixed wing aircraft. A quick question, what was the grey putty that you used at the beginning? Was it the Perfect Plastic Putty?

I saw the NORAD 60 CF-18 and the 2016 liveried CF-18 at air shows here in California. I don’t think they were here in 2017, which would have been this one.

When painting, best to go from lightest to darkest. And when dealing with large decals try cutting them into smaller, more manageable pieces. Also in regards to the multi part wheels, this is done to make painting easier. You can paint the tires and wheels separately, then glue them together without having to mask anything.

always liked the 2003 CF-18 Tiger Meet Livery

Fn beautiful

Thanks for the information on kinetic models I will not ever ever buy kit from them that is ridiculous I'm sorry you had to go through that man is bad customer service if you don't treat your customers good you don't deserve to be in business and I've heard nothing but horrible fit issues with kinetics you're not the first person that said that so yeah all right man love your channel keep posting them videos

The one scheme I would like to see in 1/32 is the 2003 CF-18 Tiger meet scheme, presently have the 20th anniversary by Kinetic...

Wait at 18:08 are you talking about the 2016 demo hornet? If so I saw it at Abbotsford doing about 1000kmh

I would like to see someone issue the markings for some of the CF-101 Voodoo. Hawk One comes to mind.

Where do you go to get your models I go to dundas valley hobby

I wish I could find decals for the Tiger Meet of the Americas 2003 Hornet.