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Douglas A-4C Skyhawk

a build story by David W. Aungst
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Construction
I built the model mostly out-of-the-box.

The only change I made was to replace the kit ejection seat with one from the Cutting Edge range. The Cutting Edge seat is really nice. Only a careful paint job is required to make a great addition to the cockpit.

The instruction sheet is rather complete in showing all the items to "fix" in the kit to model the A-4C. Pay close attention to it to learn that there are numerous little things to fill or cut away to correct the kit. This is to be expected from a kit where the moldings have been generalized to provide so many versions. On completing the kit, there are even more items to add to the spares box than what came out of the A-4E kit.

The weapons load is one I have seen a lot in pictures from the Vietnam conflict. I hung a Multiple Ejector Rack (MER) on the centerline weapons pylon and attached six Mk82 "Snakeye" 500lb bombs to it. I obtained these weapons from a Hasegawa weapons set. I also retained the external wing fuel tanks provided in the Hasegawa kit.

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Comments

Kencelot
Holy Smokes! That looks just spectacular! Marvelous work! You're really tempting me to try my hand at a wingy thing.
JUN 25, 2003 - 02:23 PM
Tin_Can
Everyone must eventually succumb to the pull of moving over to the better side of modeling. Just kidding all you armor nuts! David does outstanding work and it's a pleasure to be able to publish his work here.
JUN 25, 2003 - 02:29 PM
Holdfast
:-) Wow, loverly A4, should certainly help pull some armour modellers from the dark side :-) Mal
JUN 27, 2003 - 09:17 AM
SniperSoldier
GREAT DOUGLAS - ESPECTACULAR - CONGRATS ROBERTO
JUN 27, 2003 - 11:46 AM
AIRB842586
It really was very well done
JUN 27, 2003 - 12:48 PM
Mbwun
That really is a beautiful A-4. Wicked awesome job on that. Like Holdfast said, it might be enough to pull some of us armor modellers from the dark side..... but the dark side is strong...
JUL 06, 2003 - 08:22 PM
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