DeAgostini Japan Launches Weekly Top Gun Maverick F/A-18E Build Series
A 120-issue weekly build is a long commitment for a licensed film model, and DeAgostini is betting that Maverick's Hornet can hold collectors for the full run.
Reporting from 1 source: Dengeki Hobby Web.
DeAgostini Japan has launched a weekly publication that builds a 1/24-scale F/A-18E Super Hornet as it appears in Top Gun: Maverick. The first issue goes on sale October 20, 2026, with a planned total of 120 issues. The finished model is about 76 cm long and has remote-controlled canopy, landing gear, flaps, and lights.
The model is built around the F/A-18E flown by Pete "Maverick" Mitchell in the film, reproduced at 1/24 scale with a finished overall length of about 76 cm. Remote control covers the canopy, nose gear, elevators, rudders, wing leading-edge and trailing-edge flaps, and ailerons, and the same controller turns the afterburner, navigation lights, and formation lights on and off. Engine sounds are part of the build. The openable nose holds an AESA radar, the vertical stabilizers carry the United States Navy Fighter Weapons School logo, and detachable stores include AIM-120 AMRAAM, AIM-9X Sidewinder, GBU-10 Paveway II, AGM-Maverick, and AGM-154 JSOW.
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