F/A-18E intakes

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Ingo Degenhardt - 04 Aug 2005 20:49 GMT

Hi,

I am building Revell's Super Hornet and just have assembled the intake
trunks which are to be painted white inside.
So far, so good.
Revell says they should be white from front to rear. Now I wonder if
that is right. Should they not have a front edge in the underside
colour Light Compass Grey?
At least the decals for the intake insides are in dark grey...
Can anyone help? My pics all have that area in the shadows...of
course.
TIA
Ingo

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CCBlack - 05 Aug 2005 00:01 GMT

>Ingo Degenhardt wrote:
> I am building Revell's Super Hornet and just have assembled the intake
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> At least the decals for the intake insides are in dark grey...
> Can anyone help? My pics all have that area in the shadows...of

Does this help at all ?

www.airliners.net/open.file/892079/L/

Here is another pic:

www.airliners.net/open.file/856011/L/

Chris

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Rufus - 05 Aug 2005 01:45 GMT

>>Ingo Degenhardt wrote:
>>I am building Revell's Super Hornet and just have assembled the intake
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>
> Chris

Damn - those are nice pics!

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Ingo - 05 Aug 2005 11:16 GMT

Great!
Why was I not able to find those pics? ....strange...
But thanks a lot!!!

:-)

ingo

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Rufus - 05 Aug 2005 01:44 GMT

> Hi,
>
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> TIA
> Ingo

Yes - they are grey a goodly way into the intake. On the real jet,
about the length of your forearm at the lower lip.

Try looking at these:

http://www.swissjet.ch/1024/AIR04/Jets/20040905_F18F.jpg

http://www.history.navy.mil/planes/fa-18e.jpg

http://www.warshipsifr.com/media/super_hornet.jpg

http://www.radstone.co.uk/gallery/ATFLIRpr.jpg

http://www.hnn.navy.mil/archives/020809/Images_080902/Orig/FA-18E.jpg

http://www.eagleillustrations.com/fa-18e_super_hornet-closeup.jpg

...that should be enough.

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- Rufus (who'll be picking up his 1/84 Hasagawa F/A-18F tomorrow.)

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F/A-18E intakes