WIP - A-7D Corsair II
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Chosen armament.
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Sanding, puttying, priming all over again.
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Engine exhaust cover is a disaster...
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...as well as exhaust itself.
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Not better with air duct.
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And air intake.
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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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I had to get rid also the imitation of front well from the air intake.
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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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Air intake was painted before gluing as later I wouldn't be able to paint it properly.
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It will be hard to sand this putty.
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I've upgraded a canon as kit's one was terrible.
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And started shading bombs and missiles
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as well as resin parts.
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Resin wheel and electronic bays glued in place.
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Instrument panel.
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Gun.
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Cockpit.
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Ejection seat.
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Exhaust cover.
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Cockpit glued.
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Intake.
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Top view.
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Issues on the bottom side.
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After some corrections.
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Had to glue canopy.
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Gaps were filled with styrene pieces and putty.
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Sandin in progress.
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Big mouth almost ready.
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Finally all done. Sanded and rescribed.
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Armament
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Ready
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Primer
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Preshading
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First color
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And second one
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All done and ready
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After painting and gloss - top view
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After painting and gloss - bottom view
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With decals
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With decals
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With decals
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Last wash
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And trying on base
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Base prepared with sanding paper
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Adding some dirt
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Adding some dirt
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After flat lacquer
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After flat lacquer
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Glued all parts.
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Top view
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Belly view
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New base instead of aircraft deck
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Close view
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Bottom view with more dirt, streaks etc.
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On the base.
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Comentarii
1 21 December 2015, 17:40
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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cockpit looks good, you are doing a really nice job here... i am certainly grabbing a chair too 🙂
29 November 2016, 11:29
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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
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do you like showbirds or more deep down and dirty?
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6 December 2016, 12:30
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Dammit, that Looks impressive! I´ll take the seat at Spanjaard. Beer anyone?😉
2 October 2018, 11:42
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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
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That is a splendid A-7. It always amazes me how much ordnance these birds could carry.
2 October 2018, 14:27
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I hesitate.... Is it too nice so I stop modelling or is it too inspiring so I keep modelling ? 😉
3 October 2018, 17:38
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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
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Great job, especially now filthy. We could choose your next build for you 🙂
4 October 2018, 03:00
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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
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My vote would be SA-8 Gecko or the Meng Buk or ZSU-23-4. I'm still waiting for mine. Whatever you choose will be stunning I know
4 October 2018, 08:41
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Thanks. I think model is completed - I've just uploaded some final photos.
Thank you all for watching and comments.
4 October 2018, 20:59
Album info
Photos of builded model of A-7D plane.