Billabob

I am in the process of building my first model since 7th grade (40 yrs ago). I am building a Hasegawa A-7A oob. It's probably not the best kit but it was cheap and I wanted to start on it to practice the new skills I've learned over the last few months reading these and other forums and other modeling sites and books. I wanted to stay oob BUT there is one part that has me truly annoyed. The launch bar on the nose gear has no control rod that raises and lowers it. It was neve included in the kit's parts list or instructions but it REALLY needs one so I want to try and build one from scratch.

Yes numbering was port to starboard.

That's the only place we ever hung them.

FLIR= Forward Looking Infra Red. When I was with VX-5 we had just started playing with them.

General info... Sta 2 & 7 on the A-7 are dry.

Thanks for the welcome Balls! I used to build warbird models when I was in 7th and 8th grade. Nothing near as good as anything here. Then I went into the Navy and worked on A-7s and other Navy birds over a 5 yr period then life took me on a different route. I was still interested in planes, went to airshows and whatnot but never considered building a model again until a month ago. We went into a hobby shop and I saw the Trumpeter 1/32 A-7E and I started thinking if I wanted to get it. I googled the kit and it led me to the forums here and I've been reading all I can. I'm going to start wi

Thanks George! That makes sense. I was hoping it was more than that. More like material so you can make your own masks for painting designs that don't come in decals. I'm planning on building an A-7E and painting it in the color scheme of the squadron I was in, in the late 70's. I have found decals for them but not from the cruise I was on. Alan

I have been looking around the past few days and am impressed by the workmanship on a lot of these models. I went to Sprue bros and was looking at all their stuff and saw the Eduard masks but the picture didn't tell me anything. What exactly are the masks for?