Tackling the Revell 1/32 F/A-18F for newbies.

I love these kits that fight you, and enjoy trying to simplify what is a hard to build model. So, for all you budding Top Gun fans, here's how to get this thing together in simple steps. If you would like to contribute to the channel.. please look here.. / nigelsmodellingbench

[@pontiacgto2005]

That's why Revell classified the kit as Level 5 for a reason😂!

[@davegiles2344]

I don’t build aircraft but I really enjoy watching your videos.

[@OzScalemodeling]

Nicely displayed and explained for anyone thanking about getting this kit 👌 👏

[@basfinnis]

Nigel, just bought the Lancaster from Premium Hobbies. Used your code which saved a load of money. Wanted to say thanks mate. Appreciate your help and videos 😘

[@NigelsModellingBench]

Glad to help

[@syrmalcolm]

Right. So I have been on the fence for this kit, and after watching this, now I'm going to just have to pull the trigger. What the heck.. it can't be much worse than some of the kits I've had to fight with recently. Thanks again for the content you put up, it's always a great experience to watch and learn and enjoy.

[@NigelsModellingBench]

I need to get it back on the bench!!

[@andrewchescoe6014]

i have this kit and without your very valued input it would still be in the box...thank you muchly for your time making these vids love them and very informative

[@NigelsModellingBench]

Glad to help. I must put another video out on this one. The exhausts are a nightmare!!

[@andrewchescoe6014]

@@NigelsModellingBench i no where near that stage yet but plz do...very helpful..thank you

[@paulkimble7981]

I have this kit,and have found your video very useful,I look forward to the next installment.

[@NigelsModellingBench]

Glad it was helpful!

[@AlisonFort]

Enjoyed that - thanks Nigel. Give Jess a biscuit for me!

[@NigelsModellingBench]

She cant have a biscuit Alison, she's on a special diet so no treats I'm afraid!!

[@charliegrech8433]

I don’t mind getting a dog of a build ,love the challenge

[@kenhanson1819]

Great video Nigel! I've got the E version, but I'm sure the issues are very similar if not identical.

[@mako2350]

For warbirds I like 48th scale, for jets I like 72nd scale. for the scale 32nd for any kit it is best but takes up a lot of room...

[@Rallycarminiatures]

Sorry I missed it mate was working late just starting to watch now

[@plan4u56]

This model kit HAS To Be APPROCHED as YOU ARE DOING!!! TEST FIT EVERY ASSEMBLY!!!! BEFORE GLUE IS INTRODUCED!!! MAKE CUTS, SAND, FILE WHATEVER it TAKES to Minimize the AGONY of this ILL Fitting F/A-18 Kit. I Wanted to buy the kit myself but I DO NOT Have the Patients to build for probably six months to a year before the kit is done. I've heard the Nose cone profile is off, the Burner can areas, what the heck the whole model.....ANIT GOOD!! Sorry Revell , this model unless you RE-Engineer it...would be the only way I would buy it... Don't Hold your Breath... I'll just watch the MAdness unfold as other modelers "Walk The Plank" Blessings Darrell Killingsworth

[@HughGordon124c]

Buccaneers were the same Nigel ..hands off stick on carrier launch and that was in the 60's.

[@NigelsModellingBench]

Really?? Cannot believe that they were so advanced in those early days.

[@HughGordon124c]

@@NigelsModellingBench Aye it was to prevent pilot induced pitch up which had resulted in airframe losses..edited my firt post..first flight was 1960...butterfingers me..lol

[@maxbrandt6]

The Super Hornet looks sharp in Black Knight livery, shame it's a not-good kit. Had you not said this was an in-house production by Revell of Germany I would have thought it was just a reboxing of the Academy kit.

[@gadeeshi]

The most problem of Revell's F/A-18E/F is not the way they go together but serious shape issues. The most prominent of them are too round and short nose cone and wrong backhump shape (line and cross-sections both) and size in several places including the most problematic one - the section just behind the canopy which has complex shape.

[@NigelsModellingBench]

Some would argue that they don't care about accuracy, and like a kit that goes together nicely.

[@powerwolf-vw8st]

I was looking at this kit as i like the F18 and tbh none of this puts me off, I dont mind test fitting sanding scraping more test fitting fettling filling more sanding test fitting rinse repeat ect.. If the detail is pretty nice i don't care. It's almost theraputic to me to make a pig of a kit fit and look nice. Perhaps not all the time though.. every now and again i think your sanity needs a tamiya.

[@d165354]

HI, greetings from Orkney. You said that the pilot does not hold the joystick. I would think that the sudden force of the catapult would cause him to jerk hard back on the joystick which would flip the nose up uncontrollably and cause the whole aeroplane to summersault on take off. i assume that the joystick is "locked" somehow untill the catapult cable has released. Dont Know for sure (ex submariner...we went down not up ) but it just struck me when you mentioned it ..that this may be the reason why....any carrier crew watching that can explain ????? over to you ......cheers mike ilett.

[@johnmclean6498]

DCS pilot here....yes, the pitch trim is set according to the aircraft weight (mine is 16 degrees nose up) and the joystick is "hands free" during launch. The jet pitches to the correct AoA immediately on departure with no effort from the pilot. Normally they hold onto the suitcase handles in the canopy rail during launch. The launch controller wants to see both of the pilots hands before he initiates.

[@darronhedges5873]

The readiness is all!.Charge……

[@stephicohu]

do you think newbies can do this kit? the back wheel wells need to strengthen the landing gear. Phil's landing gear broke off.

[@NigelsModellingBench]

I'm doing these videos to help newbies build it. I am aware that the landing gear is rubbish, as I said in the video. I am currently looking at ways to strengthen it..

[@mikemontgomery2654]

Seems to me that the undercarriage is all plastic and that might be the problem. There is no metal core insert, in the gear. That would likely help or just replace it with white metal, altogether.

[@NigelsModellingBench]

I believe the legs are strong enough, i think the mountings are what breaks?

[@mikemontgomery2654]

@@NigelsModellingBench entirely possible. I’ve found that to be a weak spot on many F-18 kits.

[@dompastryboy2237]

It almost killed him.

[@NigelsModellingBench]

EH????

[@dompastryboy2237]

He ended up in hospital during the build. The joke is that is was the F18 that caused it.

[@NigelsModellingBench]

Oh dear.. I assume he's OK now?