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So I've been looking to see what to do about the shallow intakes on the 1/72 A-7.  A bunch of reviews say that the ESCI and Italeri kits come intake covers.  What can I do since not one kit i've ever built or the 5 I have sitting in the closet have the covers.  Does someone make covers for the 1/72 scale kits?

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13 hours ago, Spectre711 said:

So I've been looking to see what to do about the shallow intakes on the 1/72 A-7.  A bunch of reviews say that the ESCI and Italeri kits come intake covers.  What can I do since not one kit i've ever built or the 5 I have sitting in the closet have the covers.  Does someone make covers for the 1/72 scale kits?

 

Not sure which reviews you're referring to, but the injection-molded intake cover was an addition made by Italeri after they acquired the A-7E tooling previously released by ESCI and AMT (it may also be included in Italeri's A-7D of the same provenance, but I don't have Italeri's version of the D to confirm).  So only the Italeri kit has the cover, but the plastic by AMT or ESCI is otherwise the same.  There's also a "related" tooling of the Corsair family boxed by ACE and possibly IDEA - seemingly "inspired by" the ESCI kits, so no covers there either (Scalemates incorrectly notes the ACE kits as copies of Hasegawa).

 

I'm extremely happy (and to be blunt, shocked) that Darren may be interested in producing these as aftermarket for the 1/72 kits.  Guess not everyone got the memo that this scale "doesn't sell"?  I'd love to see them in black to use the VA-22 decal from Almark's vintage sheet for the Enterprise cruise.

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Depending on what time frame you are doing you can just make your own intake/exhaust covers. When I was in A-7E's (84-87) all of our intake/exhaust covers were cloth, you can just make them out of masking tape and paint them the squadron color. When I was NAS Cecil Field all of the A-7 squadrons on the flight line used cloth covers and they were in squadron color with the squadron marking or designation on them.

 

Here's how our intake covers looked, except ours were blue with a yellow trident.

https://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=https%3A%2F%2Fc8.alamy.com%2Fcomp%2FD3PR6N%2Fling-temco-vought-a-7-corsair-ii-wings-over-the-rockies-air-and-space-D3PR6N.jpg&imgrefurl=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.alamy.com%2Fstock-photo%2Fa-7-corsair.html&docid=emxjzmHiXhonWM&tbnid=aoCodaz66fmG9M%3A&vet=10ahUKEwjNoZujiNnkAhVLJt8KHSwHCEUQMwhQKA8wDw..i&w=1300&h=953&bih=720&biw=1222&q=A-7E intake cover&ved=0ahUKEwjNoZujiNnkAhVLJt8KHSwHCEUQMwhQKA8wDw&iact=mrc&uact=8

 

An example of the exhaust cover

http://kiwimodeller.com/~kmodel/index.php/forum/38-follow-as-i-build/31144-hobby-boss-1-48-a-7e-corsair-ii

 

hth

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