WIP - A-7D Corsair II

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December 21, 2015
Chosen armament.
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December 24, 2015
Sanding, puttying, priming all over again.
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December 24, 2015
Engine exhaust cover is a disaster...
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December 24, 2015
...as well as exhaust itself.
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December 24, 2015
Not better with air duct.
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December 24, 2015
And air intake.
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January 6, 2016
Finally Aires set arrived. I tried to fit whell wells, so I had to cut some of the plastic, but it looks promising.
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January 6, 2016
I had to get rid also the imitation of front well from the air intake.
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January 6, 2016
I cut also some to the parts in the exhaust cover. I will try to do them from the proper size piece of HIPS.
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January 6, 2016
Air intake was painted before gluing as later I wouldn't be able to paint it properly.
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January 6, 2016
It will be hard to sand this putty.
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January 13, 2016
I've upgraded a canon as kit's one was terrible.
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January 13, 2016
And started shading bombs and missiles
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January 13, 2016
as well as resin parts.
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November 28, 2016
Resin wheel and electronic bays glued in place.
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November 28, 2016
Instrument panel.
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November 28, 2016
Gun.
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November 28, 2016
Cockpit.
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November 28, 2016
Ejection seat.
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November 28, 2016
Exhaust cover.
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November 28, 2016
Cockpit glued.
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November 28, 2016
Intake.
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November 28, 2016
Top view.
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November 28, 2016
Issues on the bottom side.
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November 28, 2016
After some corrections.
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December 6, 2016
Had to glue canopy.
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December 6, 2016
Gaps were filled with styrene pieces and putty.
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December 6, 2016
Sandin in progress.
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December 6, 2016
Big mouth almost ready.
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December 13, 2016
Finally all done. Sanded and rescribed.
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April 1, 2018
Armament
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April 1, 2018
Ready
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April 1, 2018
Primer
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April 1, 2018
Preshading
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April 1, 2018
First color
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April 1, 2018
And second one
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September 28, 2018
All done and ready
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September 28, 2018
After painting and gloss - top view
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September 28, 2018
After painting and gloss - bottom view
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September 28, 2018
With decals
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September 28, 2018
With decals
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September 28, 2018
With decals
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September 28, 2018
Last wash
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September 28, 2018
And trying on base
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September 28, 2018
Base prepared with sanding paper
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September 28, 2018
Adding some dirt
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September 28, 2018
Adding some dirt
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September 28, 2018
After flat lacquer
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September 28, 2018
After flat lacquer
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October 2, 2018
Glued all parts.
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October 2, 2018
Top view
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October 2, 2018
Belly view
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October 2, 2018
New base instead of aircraft deck
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October 2, 2018
Close view
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October 3, 2018
Bottom view with more dirt, streaks etc.
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October 3, 2018
On the base.
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October 4, 2018
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October 4, 2018
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October 4, 2018
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October 4, 2018
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October 4, 2018
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October 4, 2018
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October 4, 2018
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October 4, 2018

Comentarios

1 21 December 2015, 17:40

Stefan Schacht
I'm in! Cheers Stefan

21 December 2015, 22:21

John Thomas
Nice start

6 January 2016, 13:03

Przemek Przybulewski
Stefan - Welcome aboard.
John - Thanks. While unboxing model I was saying to myself, do it easy, simple, without any modification. Just Out of the Box. Next day I was checking Scalemates for possible upgrades and it llooks like it will be another long build.😉

7 January 2016, 10:00

Przemek Przybulewski
Guido - There are still plenty of free chairs in a first row.😉
Thank and i hope you will enjoy watching.

7 January 2016, 10:10

Kurt Reichert
Looks interesting, i am in too!

13 January 2016, 18:11

Christian Ristits
I will take a Seat too!

13 January 2016, 19:40

Gareth Windsor
Good start. I'm in.

13 January 2016, 19:48

Clifford Keesler
I'm in, looking good.

14 January 2016, 03:50

Przemek Przybulewski
Kurt, Christian, Gareth, Clifford - It is nice nice to have such audience. 😄
Probably project will slow down a little bit as I put my hands on Patriot from Trumpeter so I have to share time between those two models. BUt I promise I will try to update it as often as possible. 😉

14 January 2016, 10:07

Przemek Przybulewski
Work on model resumed few days ago.

28 November 2016, 16:43

Bryn Crandell
Looking on!

28 November 2016, 20:47

Przemek Przybulewski
Welcome aboard Bryn. Model unfortunately is bad. Maybe not as much as A-10 but most of the main parts just do not fit. I have to bend them, use a lot of CA glue with accelerator to glue them in place correctly. Disaster. I hope when finally I do fuselage, it will be easier. I hope.

29 November 2016, 06:26

Bart Goesaert
Nice progress on this beast... cockpit looks the deal... What nation will it belong to? or will you go for a deep down and dirty Hellenic one?

29 November 2016, 10:17

Spanjaard
cockpit looks good, you are doing a really nice job here... i am certainly grabbing a chair too 🙂

29 November 2016, 11:29

Przemek Przybulewski
Thank you Bart. Honestly, I'm not sure. I was looking for some interesting camo - so if you have some photos, please let me know.
Thank you Spanjaard - I'm sure there are some free chairs in the first row. 😉

29 November 2016, 12:05

Bart Goesaert
do you like showbirds or more deep down and dirty?
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forums.airshows.co.u...php?f=9&t=63675

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6 December 2016, 12:30

Scott Dutton
Great, love watching how you paint, should do a book.

1 April 2018, 23:11

Nikolaos Kouzinis
foxtrotalpha.jalopni..flight-af-1651178309

2 April 2018, 15:33

Nikolaos Kouzinis
pesawattempurdaffa.b..06/7-corsair-ii.html

2 April 2018, 15:47

Nikolaos Kouzinis
photorecon.net/peter..rce-a-7h-operations/

2 April 2018, 15:51

Holger Kranich
Dammit, that Looks impressive! I´ll take the seat at Spanjaard. Beer anyone?😉

2 October 2018, 11:42

Scott Dutton
Pure talent, I'm jealous, great work

2 October 2018, 13:11

Spanjaard
Sure Holger 🙂

2 October 2018, 13:22

Clifford Keesler
Excellent work.

2 October 2018, 13:34

Przemek Przybulewski
Thank you - I hoped that it's over but one of the folks on polish model forum posted that I shoud add some dirt at the bottom, especially on fuel tanks and fuselage.
I'm doing this so I will upload picture tomorrow.

2 October 2018, 14:07

Martin Oostrom
That is a splendid A-7. It always amazes me how much ordnance these birds could carry.

2 October 2018, 14:27

Bart Goesaert
splendid work... stunning as always...

2 October 2018, 14:34

Florent Thouret
I hesitate.... Is it too nice so I stop modelling or is it too inspiring so I keep modelling ? 😉

3 October 2018, 17:38

Spanjaard
inspiring then 🙂
fantastic weathering

3 October 2018, 17:40

Przemek Przybulewski
Thank you guys - I'm very happy that you like it 🙂

Time to plan next one - I'm afraid it will be tough choice to make.

3 October 2018, 19:59

Daniel Klink
What a beautiful mess....👍

3 October 2018, 20:03

Spanjaard
with your stash... you have plenty of choices 🙂 but yes, tough one 🙂

3 October 2018, 20:28

Scott Dutton
Great job, especially now filthy. We could choose your next build for you 🙂

4 October 2018, 03:00

Michael Hickey
What a stunning build of the SLUF, well done.👍👍👍

4 October 2018, 04:37

Przemek Przybulewski
Thank you Daniel and Micheal.
Spanjaard - yes, too much planes to choose 😉
Scott - we can make a survey however looking at the stash I thought about F-117A. Not too much parts but quite challenging painting.

4 October 2018, 06:18

Bart Goesaert
nice choise, then the Mig-21?

4 October 2018, 06:25