【ACE COMBAT 8: WINGS OF THEVE】F/A-18C belonging to the Queen Squadron made into a 3D model with commitment packed! Display stands optimal for display after completion coming along as well, F/A-18C Hornet "Queen Squadron" advance pre-orders started!

In figures where fighter aircraft run through the big sky, there is cool beauty where you spontaneously gaze, isn't there? An item where you can enjoy such aircraft charms with your own hands is “1/72 F/A-18C Hornet 'Queen Squadron'”. This product is a plastic model reproducing F/A-18C belonging to the Queen Squadron appearing in the popular flight shooting game “Ace Combat 8”. Being able to actually assemble and display fighter aircraft active in the world of games, isn't it a pleasing point for fans? By settings unique to works named Queen Squadron adding to powerful aircraft shapes unique to F/A-18C, you can enjoy in ways slightly different from existing military aircraft models. Not to mention people collecting aircraft models, even for people who got interested in fighter aircraft triggered by games, it is an existence concerning.

If going out of the way to take models in hand, places wanting to know about aircraft that became models as well. F/A-18 Hornet is a carrier-based fighter attack aircraft developed by America's McDonnell Douglas, and currently Boeing takes over that business. What became the original prototype was YF-17 Cobra developed by Northrop toward the US Air Force's lightweight fighter aircraft plan. Based on that design, what developed as aircraft corresponding to operations in aircraft carriers is F/A-18. By the way, in nicknames called “Hornet”, there is a meaning named hornet in English. Don't you think it is a perfect name for quick and powerful fighter aircraft? Multi-usability capable of bearing both combat missions and ground attack missions is also an indispensable feature when talking about this aircraft. Gazing at models after knowing origins of actual aircraft, interest springs up even more in aircraft designs as well.

What is concerning when choosing aircraft plastic models, isn't it sizes after completion? Here is reproduced on a 1/72 scale, and while enjoying silhouettes typical of fighter aircraft, senses of size easy to line up as collections are charms. Actual F/A-18C has unique appearances recognized at a glance, like characteristic twin vertical tails and engines arranged on left and right. Especially, flowing lines continuing from nose to main wings and to the rear are appreciation points unique to aircraft models. Placing completed products on desks and gazing thoroughly is good, and lining up together with other fighter aircraft models to enjoy differences for each aircraft seems interesting as well. Even for people who want to collect aircraft appearing in games in series, it can be said to be an easy-to-adopt scale.

For aircraft parts of this product, calm grays typical of fighter aircraft are adopted. Because of color tones letting you feel atmospheres of military aircraft, being able to imagine Hornet figures from stages before assembly is a pleasing place. Of course, speaking of real pleasures unique to plastic models, there are also in processes shaping little by little with your own hands. Times confirming aircraft structures while combining parts, or enjoying arrangements of wings or tail wings will give fulfillments different from cases purchasing completed products. Also, ways of enjoying challenging painting or weathering, pursuing more realistic aircraft-likeness can be thought. How to finish Queen Squadron aircraft, being able to produce while inflating your own completion images is also an attraction.

The point that cannot be missed in this kit is the inclusion of display stands. Fighter aircraft models have attractive figures parked on the ground as well, but after all don't you come to want to display in states as if flying in the sky? Utilizing stands, widths of expression when displaying aircraft expand. Especially in works themed on aerial combats like the “Ace Combat” series, flying fighter aircraft figures themselves are major charms. Displaying while recalling impressive scenes in games, time gazing at models seems likely to become even more enjoyable. Arranging on desks or collection shelves, trying to create spaces appreciating favorite aircraft would be good too. By stands being included, being able to assemble while thinking up to display ways after completion can be said to be a pleasing consideration.

When researching about F/A-18, you may see designations called “Legacy Hornet”. This is a name used to distinguish from advanced F/A-18E/F Super Hornet appearing later. F/A-18C modelized this time is a single-seat type of Hornet corresponding to conventional types. Differences exist in aircraft sizes or shapes with Super Hornet, and trying to compare as aircraft models is also an interesting place. By knowing features of such actual aircraft, wouldn't you become familiar with Queen Squadron specifications appearing in games from new viewpoints as well? In places where real aviation technology and fictional unit settings connect in a single model, there are interests unique to Ace Combat-related items.

“1/72 F/A-18C Hornet 'Queen Squadron'” is a plastic model where you can enjoy charms of existing famous fighter aircraft and worldviews of “Ace Combat 8” at the same time. Structures of gray aircraft parts, easy-to-handle 1/72 scale, and display stands let you imagine various funs from time assembling to appreciation after completion. Above all, the point being able to complete Queen Squadron Hornets with your own hands would be a major charm of this product. For people who want to add aircraft appearing in favorite games to collections, or people who want to enjoy beautiful forms of F/A-18C thoroughly, please try paying attention by all means. Facing completed aircraft in front of eyes, you might come to want to fly off to game skies again.