Spectre711 Posted September 15, 2019 Share Posted September 15, 2019 (edited) 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? Edited September 15, 2019 by Spectre711 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Spectre711 Posted September 15, 2019 Author Share Posted September 15, 2019 Here is a picture of 3 sprues and they were never molded. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Darren Roberts Posted September 15, 2019 Share Posted September 15, 2019 I thought I had 72nd scale vinyl intake covers in my Steel Beach line. I just checked and apparently I never scaled them down. This might be a good time to do it. What colors do you need and how many of them do you need if you want to go that route? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Spectre711 Posted September 15, 2019 Author Share Posted September 15, 2019 Darren, I would need at least 5 now if I went that route. As far as colors I would probably be better of with something I can paint to match whatever colors the squadron used. Red is always good for high visibility. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
achterkirch Posted September 15, 2019 Share Posted September 15, 2019 Just looking thru pictures looks like red was a popular color and also OD green or olive for air force jets. Could also be the squadron colors like black, blue, yellow and regular green Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Quixote74 Posted September 16, 2019 Share Posted September 16, 2019 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. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Mizar Posted September 16, 2019 Share Posted September 16, 2019 (edited) I owned Italeri boxes and they all had the intake cover plus the nose landing gear well which was completely amiss on Esci boxes Luigi Edited September 16, 2019 by Mizar Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Spectre711 Posted September 17, 2019 Author Share Posted September 17, 2019 Maybe the Italeri boxing's I've had were switched out with ESCI or ACE plastic? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Mizar Posted September 17, 2019 Share Posted September 17, 2019 1 hour ago, Spectre711 said: Maybe the Italeri boxing's I've had were switched out with ESCI or ACE plastic? Probably, as the pegs are missing from the sprue Luigi Quote Link to post Share on other sites
GW8345 Posted September 18, 2019 Share Posted September 18, 2019 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 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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