Hasegawa 1/48 A-4F Blue Angels

[ESzczesniak]

I have an intent to slowly build all of the Blue Angels birds in 1/48 scale (except 1/72 for Fat Albert). This is the Hasegawa A-4F Blue Angles boxing.  It’s OOB, but the box does include some of the additional Blue Angels bits in white metal and the super fox intakes.  I’m still fighting a little with how glossy to make the finish.  This is Tamiya X-22 and I think I like this result.  The blue is Gunze FS15050.  I'm going to be changing the blues some as I go through the builds and have a test grid of blues and glosses to try and help me select on future builds.  I could go as far as 2k clear for even more gloss, or tone it down some with a semigloss of some sort. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Thank you for looking an any comments or criticism are welcome. 

 

Eric

 

 

[BuNo02100]

Looks convincing to me.  I was always under the impression they kept the show birds in top condition so a high gloss finish would be in order.  I know on scale models it can make them appear “toy like” but they were not line/fleet birds.

 

BW