dsahling Posted February 12, 2017 Share Posted February 12, 2017 (edited) I completed this shortly after Christmas, but had this nice cloudy day to take some good photos. The kit is the Trumpeter 1/32 A-6A Intruder, my second take at this as I had a really good time with the A-6E about a year or so ago. The engineering and fit of this kit OOB is fantastic, Trumpeter really got there A team together for this one. However, I used the Avionix resin cockpit which offered some nice detail and the True details ejection seats, some of the Eduard photo etch, AOA decals (second time I used their decals and they're probably some of the best decals both to look at, fit, and work with). I used Model Master acrylics since I had some good experience with them in the past couple builds, and the Light Gull Grey sprayed beautifully, but that insignia white was a bad girl to work with, can anyone tell me, does using a slightly bigger nozzle like a .4mm makes working with their acrylic white? I used some AK Interactive chipping fluid for some parts of the canopy mechanism revealing some yellow primer underneath (I have no idea if its actually there, and I don't care it looks cool:-). I was reading Stephen Coonts novel "Flight of the Intruder" for some inspiration and decided to do a lightly weathered A-6, I wanted to try something new for the walkways since I've never liked the way mine have come out in the past, so I also got ahold of some textured spray paint to use for the walkways and good thing I had this thing well covered and masked cause that stuff comes out fast! I decided to close most of it up and just didn't want to fork over a lot of cash for fancy resin bombs, although there are some beautiful ones out there. I also added some lead wire for brake lines and such on the landing gear which is always a fairly easy detail to do that really gives a nice level of realism. I used to be a flight instructor in prop aircraft but don't fly anymore. However I always found something appealing about an aircraft that flies LOW, is relatively fast and nimble for its size, at night, in bad weather, with no self protection, with a sole job to drop its load DEEP in enemy territory, hear that ladies? I bet you A-6 guys got some serious tail in their day. Anyways enjoy! Edited February 12, 2017 by dsahling Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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Ichitoe Posted February 12, 2017 Share Posted February 12, 2017 Nicely done! Mike Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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