Douglas A-4E Skyhawk - WIP
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filling and sanding almost completed
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internal parst in place and as soon as the weight will dry - I can close the fuselage
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additional bits cleaned and ready to go
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initial cleanup
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and preparation for PE parts
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bits and bobs
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seat ready for wash
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cockpit finally together
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just wash needed
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ready to close the fuselage
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wings in place
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almost everything ready to paint
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some PE added
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landing light
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LAU-10/A Zuni ready to paint
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pylons need to be modified to fit the MER
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main body with various bits and bobs
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Mk-81 bombs all finished and ready for installation
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MER for all those Mk-81s
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aircraft ready for priming
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MER version banana 🙁
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a little bit of heat and I think it's not bad 🙂
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MER are completed and painted - ready for decals
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together with the LAU-10
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and pylons
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Revell Aqua Fiery Red - quite nice color and handy for hand painting of the wheel doors later
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a little bit of Mr. Metal color 211 chrome silver and pistons are ready for wash
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all bits and bobs from today's spray booth adventure
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LAU-10 with decals
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MER with decals
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Skyhawk armament together ready for wash
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final touch to the rockets
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test pylon with and withouth Flory wash
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and from the other side.
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all washed up, cleaned and two MER already filled
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one MER to go...
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aaaand all armament is finished
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little dry testing
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looking good 😉
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Mr. Surfacer 1000 (do not have 1200 at hand 🙁 )
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looking very nice. Next will be slight sanding and preshading
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a little bit of preshading
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bottom surfaces with MRP-99 US Navy White
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small parts
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small parts painted. ready for wash
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upper surfaces done
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some places will need to be corrected (red areas)
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overall - looking good 🙂
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masked and painted dark grey stripes and black areas near cockpit
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two more black and yellow areas need to be added and red area for wing slats need some correction
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black and yellow areas masked and painted.
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plane is ready for decals
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small parts after enamel wash
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landing light should be silver underneath the paint but I forgot to paint it. well, it's not looking too bad.
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first decals in place, more to come
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red stripes on the air inlet was challenge to say the least. but the result is not bad 🙂
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more decals in place
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and still more to go
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all decals are in place
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ready for final touches and clear cote
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Flory Dark Dirth wash in place and hapilly drying
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and also small parts...
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and wash is cleaned
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further inspection and cleaning will be done after the 2 week vacation I'm about to go to
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Job done! More photos in gallery.
Kommentare
1 5 December 2017, 13:45
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That poor thing will never be able to take off with all that hardware dangling off it 🙂
26 May 2018, 18:20
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Guss, actually it did once take off with 24 Mk 81's on it,,,,and it was the earlier version with a lower powered engine, and racks heavier than MERs are. (It was used to demonstrate the idea of multiple bombs invented by a Marine and demo'd to the USN and USMC, including fairly accurate CEPs for the time period)
11 June 2018, 17:58
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Great info Rex. Thanks. 24 Mk 81's? wow. That's an idea for next A-4 skyhawk project 😄
13 June 2018, 21:23
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oops,,,,,,that should be 18, sorry. I meant that all three pylons on the early Skyhawk were full. They were the Electric Fuzed (sharp nose) Mk 81s with the early standard Conical Fins. The racks were made by welding A-1 Skyraider bomb racks onto long rails. (compared to MBRs and MERs, those racks were *uglyyyy* )
15 June 2018, 03:54
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no problem. so in a way my payload will be something like they had. but with additional LAU rokets... If anyone is wandering why this payload - I wanted the exact payload which is shown on the boxart (later I have found that the center MER do not have Mk 81s but bigger version - at least it seems like it).
15 June 2018, 06:22
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Looking great so far! Very nice build log, and I like the payload, it looks massive! 👍
18 June 2018, 09:33
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And the model is finished. Thank you all for your kind words. I hope you enjoyed the build. The second part of the "The Sound of Silence" will be starting probably later this year. Right now it's time for another job.
1 July 2018, 11:36
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