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Just a quick sprue review before I begin to cut and glue the parts together:

The kit consists of 4 gray sprues and 1 clear sprue containing the canopy.

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Tree A & B contains the parts to build the plane

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and 2 small sprues contain the missile loads.

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The decals seem to be good and of register. It contains loads of stencils! :whistle: I don't know if I can put them all.

The kit suffers from multile flashes, specially on the landing gears. I can't comment about the accuracy as I'm not an A-10 guru :) But it sure looks like a warthog to me. The instructions is just an exploded view of the plane w/ all of the parts labels and arrows pointing to where they're supposed to be installed. Some of them are a little confusing to me specially when I was already starting construction.

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next post. the progress :D

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You should have picked up one of the new Dragon 2-pack A-10s for this. Then you'd have armament options for say...... a squadron of planes, including CBU-87, GBU-31, better GBU-12 and GBU-10, JSOW, etc.

It really is a whole lotta boom!

jb

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Archer, Looks good so far!

I am building the same kit myself (still need to start a thread and post pics).

Maybe tonight...:deadhorse1:

Anyway, I have already begun to tackle that engine attachment area. Sanding

will be a nightmare if you go at it the traditional way. I decided to

attack it with chemical sanding instead.

I use a blue automotive filler but any plastic putty will suffice.

Then I took q-tips and pipe cleaners moistened with Cutex

fingernail polish remover and immediately removed the excess,

smoothing the fill to the level desired. Be careful you don't let

it dry too much or you won't be able to remove it as easily.

The Cutex is mild enough so it doesn't mar the plastic but

avoid straight acetone. That will craze the styrene.

I plan to blend the windscreen to the fuselage using the

same method.

I still have some touchup sanding to do but the method I've

described did a pretty good job of fairing the nacelle fuselage

mount into the fuselage. Did the same to fill in the gap between

the instrument panel coaming and forward area of the fuselage.

Hope this helps. :thumbsup:

David

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