Recently, CAG birds have become more colorful than they have in many years. VFA-131 'Wildcats' was one of the units that were newly formed just for the F-18 Hornet when it initially came on line. The other that I can think of was VFA-132 'Privateers'. Not sure if it is still around or not, but VFA-131 is and they recently did a great job of painting up the CAG bird.

Though perhaps not readily apparent, the aircraft is in FS 36320 upper and FS 36375 lower and sides. A lot easier scheme to paint than the original three color version!

Superscale gives you a full stencil suite as well as upper fuselage walk areas. The CAG bird carries full-color insignia in addition to the very colorful tail markings.

For kits, you have two real choices for this sheet. First is the very nicely detailed, difficult to build and quite expensive Hasegawa Hornet. The other is the much less expensive Revell-Monogram kit. It is not much less difficult to build, but you won't have to take out a bank loan to buy the kit!

Please note that the sheet may look a bit short as I'll often crop off common markings to save on server space.

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