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Mark Sherwood
Nice one again John. 🥸👍

Villiers de Vos
Very nice paint effects.

gorby
Exceptionally good painting!

Robert Podkoński
Great paintjob indeed.

Moreno Baruffini
I totally agree with the above!!!

Łukasz Gliński
Wow, very impressive

Harald Besold
Starts promising! Nice details. 👍

Harry Eder
Great start! I´ll take a seat 🙂

Daniel Mysak
Nice start👍. Looking forward to your build. I´am curious to see the pros and cons of the kit.

Alec K
What! No rotor blades? 😂. I am in, nice detailing as always 👍

Hajo Lippke
Great, another Ronan-project!

Oleg Bogolei
I didn't dare to cut main weels bays, I just swore loudly at Trumpeter)
And there are some other remakes need to be done to make "A' from this model...

Maciej Bellos
I am in too. Source of inspiration this build will be 😄

Łukasz Gliński
Been waiting for this 👍

Patrick Hagelstein
Oh yes! A combo of Ronan and Intruder: obligatory to follow! 🙂

Ronan
Many thanks , mates 😉
For those who wish to assemble this model, it will be necessary to plan a little surgery on the main landing gear bays.
Other than that, I will say that the kit is better than Italeri or Fujimi but that's just my opinion. The level of detail is much higher than the other two

Ronan
Maybe a little more information about the different versions of A-6 :
tailspintopics.blogs..-vs-6e-intruder.html

Sergej I
AWESOME! 👍

Maciej Bellos
Oh WOW!

Juergen Klinglhuber
Jaw dropping detailing -as usally! All looks so easy and still perfectly clean and we all know how hard this is (especially in 72) - great job!

Ronan
Many thanks,
For the moment, I don't find any difficulty in building this kit.
I only used putty in the air intakes, the fitting is quite good

Skyhiker
Another straight out of the box build I see. 😉

Bas Tonn
Great, can't wait for more pics

Ronan
Many thanks,
The build keeps on quietly 😉

Alec K
Nice progress, the cockpit looks amazing 👍

Ronan
Thanks Alek 😉

Dearest readers,
For those who would like to build this model but are not happy about having to open the gear hatches, you should know that these famous hatches can be closed on the ground. Yesterday, I found a photo which attests to the thing in the book "lock on" by Verlinden. These hatches are closed manually by the ground mechanics during a prolonged stop of the plane, a sort of storage, this avoids FOD. Of course, this is very rare, but nevertheless it is possible. Also, it's up to you 😉

Oliver Zwiener
Take a seat

Patrick Hagelstein
Thanks for the encouragement Ronan! Let's have a look at references then. ☺️👍🏼

Michael Kohl
Following

Alec K
It's looking excellent 👍

Eric Duval
Joli travail 🙂

Ronan
Merci camarade 😊

John
Fantastic build and presentation Mark. 👍 I love the display base with the mottled/splinter colors of each aircraft too. I'm still sticking with Tamiya paints though... 😉

Mark Sherwood
Thanks John. I've got say even though I've just become a Fanboy of AKRC there's still a place in my heart for Tamiya Paints, they were a vast improvement over the Humbrol tinnies back in the mid to late seventies as where the kits over Airfix. 🤘🥸🤟

Mark Sherwood
Thanks for the like Nordmito. 🤟🥸🤘

Alberto
Great work with that splinter scheme!

Jason Marson
Thanks Alberto. There's a few corrections to be made as the masks are not 100% accurate but overall I'm pleased with the result.

J35J
Great progress!👍🏻

Nicolas
I missed this one. Following your final steps to the finish line.

Mr D
Wild camo job, lots of thinking 🤔.
Good stuff 👍

Guy Rump
Looking good, following. 👍

NordMito
Very nice looking 👀

Nicolas
Following

Ronan
Me two 😉

Harry Eder
And me too! 😀

Daniel Mysak
Welcome aboard guys🫡

Rando
Building this one as well! Yours looks amazing so far

Ekki
Watching.

Martin Grafeneder
🧐🧐🧐

Thomas Kolb
Very promising, this one! I love the detailed build log, keep it coming!

Daniel Mysak
Thx guys.👍

Cuajete
Well done so far 👍

Daniel Mysak
Thank you Cuajete.

Martin Oostrom
I spent a couple of hours cleaning up some parts that I cut of the frame

Bozzer
These curbside chassis, really upset me. Just like the Volvo VN. If the manufacturer, went to the trouble, of making an engine, and separate frame parts, with other kits, then why would they cheap out, on kits like these? I love what you're doing with this though. Keep the pictures coming, buddy 👍

Martin Oostrom
I didn't put up pictures of all the cutting and sanding. A summary:
All parts are cut, sanded and glued where possible. Only a few drops of filler were needed.
The cab consists of 10 parts that need to be positioned just right. **** job, but I think I managed.
Next up: Primer.

Martin Oostrom
And primer is on after a monster session. 200ml primer + 50ml SLT = just enough.
Primer is zero paints grey. But a dirty grey.

bughunter
Watching!

Martin Oostrom
Tamiya Bright Red for the chassis and Zero stone grey as main colour for the interior

Martin Oostrom
The Zero stone grey was a bit depressing, so I mixed a batch 50/50 with white to lighten things up a bit.
Tamiya aluminium was airbrushed, and Tamiya black as well.
Done with airbrushing for now. Letting the paint cure before decalling.

Qwertzel
Looking great so far!

Bozzer
Bravo mate!
Are those bolt heads, part of the kit?

Villiers de Vos
Very nice progress. Your attention to detail will pay off.

Johan van Meerloo
Thank you! Will be hard with the old kit though.

Nicolas
I build both kits in the past. Intrested too see what you can do with it.

Johan van Meerloo
both are interesting, this one is total crap but will try to make the best of it

Robert Podkoński
Good job so far, Johan!

Johan van Meerloo
for the crap kit it is, its going on quite okay now with some colour on it at least, hopefully the cannopy wont ruin it all due to the bad kit

Skyhiker
I would have sanded those rivets off and reriveted both planes. But I can understand not doing that. Getting raised rivets to look good in silver is a real challenge.