I am looking for a few Tiger Meet kits of F-16 or F-18s in 1/48 or 1/72 scale. I have the RG 1998 Belgium F-16 kit and the Hasegawa 1/48 f-16CJ tiger meet from 2001(?). Are there any others readily available?
Okay, evidently not a popular subject.
Leading Edge Models does decals for at least one CF-18 Tiger Meet bird, http://www.lemdecal.com/
Rob, If your interested in doing Tiger Meet Aircraft, you might want to look for this one. I have it but not built yet. Hasegawa 1 / 72 Tornado F Mk 3 " 1998 Tiger Meet “. Beautiful markings for three aircraft.53 Stormo / 21 Gruppo” Tiger Meet 1998, Italian Air Force, No 11 Sqn. No 11 Group RAF, and No.29 Sqn. No 11.Group, RAF. Very nice kit.
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The above mentioned Leading Edge set is for the Canadian Forces’ 439 Squadron when they still operated Hornets in Germany.
thanks for the info guys. Can anyone tell me which F-18 kit would be correct to use for a Canadian CF-18? I know there is a CF-18 kit that was put out but doesn’t seem to be available at this time.
I don’t believe any kit is actually accurate for the CF-188 as they all lack the spotlight that Canadian and Finnish F-18’s carry. But if you ignore that any F/A-18C model should be accurate for 1990-on or so, while an A model would be correct for earlier birds (Like most A/B’s, the CF-18’s were updated to C/D spec).
thanks for the info mykroft. great help
The last F/A-18C hornet made by Academy have the optional spotlight to convert into a canadian CF-18 but you’dd have to go 1/32 scale. There are some other features that are on US version which are not on the Canadian one but that is easy to remove.
BTW, I purchase Leading Edge decals for my 1/32 Academy CF-18 and I was really impressed by the quality of these decals. They are very thin and will look like painted on once applied and don’t need much micro-sol or anything. Have a look:
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