Hey guys, this is the completed A-1 H dressed to bomb convoys, buffalos, bunkers, motor pools, basicly just ruin the charlie's day and help the boys down on the ground















See how big an A-1 H is, this is the same scale BF109

Well done,and quick,too
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You can extend the engine exhaust stains farther,and lighter.It is a bit dark to see,if you did.

Dave, you have built a Beautiful Sandy!!!!! Onlt thing I can recomend is touch ups around the anti-glare panel and nice carrier deck to set her on!!! STUG

I have seen quite a few birds here recently that would tempt me to try one, and this is another of such. All the panel lines have come up really well and the decals are awesome. The engine smoke direction .... its the bottom one that I am wondering about. Does all the residue go above the wing like shown? As the weathering is quite heavy, one (like me with absolutely no knowledge) would think that some trails would go under the wing also? Just wondering!! Maybe its just the picture, but the pilot looks a tad shiney.
Sorry for bring up little squabbles on such a wonderful model. First class!!

The residue gets dragged along by the airsteam, which flows over the wing to provide lift.There is less pressure there,so the smoke gets sucked up and over.

I think

My Brother.

This one ranks right up there with Da Phantom Menace from a month or so back. This bird represents just superb aircraft modeling on your part.

The panel lines are well defined, and all the decals appear to be perfectly applied and snuggle down just right, ie no bubbles, no wrinkles.

Also, the Map in the cockpit is a nice touch, plus the load on this pig is really impressive.

The napalm canisters make this bird look particularly nasty. Did those come with the kit, or are they scratched?

Also, are those decals or handpainted names on the napalm canisters---either way, a nifty touch on your part. Details like this give us all something to "shoot" for.

The only criticism I have is, ------well, I don't have any (lol).

Dave, be proud here----top notch construction, excellent paint/weathering, 1st rate decal work, and impressive weapons load. Just gorgeous.


Lens jr

davidus


that's a real nice plane man !!! cool weathering and details !!

greetings from switserland

dmd

i hope to be at home soon

what, no psycho cats with little parachutes tied to the wing ends? #:-)

nice job, Davidus

Very nice Dave... Another birdie nicely done. (++)

Nice one Lord Tong. You impress me on a daily basis. I am astounded at the pace with which you create superbly executed model projects...armour...planes...ships.....what is next I wonder?
In order to keep on side with the theme of rivet review...I have this to say to you.....and listen well !!!!!!!!!!!! #:-) #:-)
Errrrm, well, ummm, hmmmmm let me see......no theres nothing I can say except, ummmm, if you...no that's not it, perhaps if you....no that's not it either...........
I give up..NICE ONE DUDE!

Dave,

Nice build. I would add some heavy oil stains all over the front of the center fuel tank, under the engine compartment. All of the pictures of the Skyraider that I have seen show this - I guess the engine leaked oil everywhere.

I don't have a picture handy, but I will try to post one for you.

Scott

Looks great Dave, makes me want to build mine even more. I just love this scheme. I've seen your reply to my question on you last post "how did you paint the natural metal lip on the cowling"? When I first studied the instructions this was the only sticking point I could see. It would be impossible to mask the inside of the cowl lip acurately. My planned course of action is to use kitchen foil, from experiments I think it can be done. I wont elaborate here, I'll try it first and explain when I post pictures for the wings over water campaign :-)
I have to agree with Scott about the oil stains on the centre drop tank, I have seen many pictures showing this. Would look pretty cool if done well on a model :-)
My only criticism (see disclaimer elswhere) is (and I'm no expert about this, just from memory of pics seen) that I believe there should be lighter grey running through the centre of the exhaust stains, at least at the beggining of them. This actually looks pretty cool as well, think way back to my F6F. This is actually grey outside and dark brown inside, but is authentic and adds a certain something :-)
Once again, a great looking bird, as usual.
Thanks for sharing.
Mal

Hey, great build of the Mig Killer Skyraider. Are those the kit decals or aftermarket?

Not a lot really to add except for the previously mentioned gray streaks that were often seen in Skyraider exhaust stains, and possibly the oil stains on the centerline tank.

Are those gun pods on the inner pylons? I haven't ever seen that particular style before.

Very nice model you got there. I just have one question. Aren't the rocket pods (in between HVARs and bombs) backwards? I always thought that all the holes where I though the rockets came out would face forward. Can someone clear this up for me? Except for my stupid little question your model is very nice.


USMC0321

Great job Dave!! I'm glad to see you branching out and painting the pilot and including him. Your constuction looks great, the decals and weathering are nice but in keeping with the current mood in RR I do see a few problems. Your antiglare black around the cockpit isn't perfect and did the rescue decal get wrecked on the left side? It looks wrinkled, but maybe that was a painting error by the ground crew of the original! Overall excellent job, its in keeping with your high standards and definately one of my favorites of all of your models that you have posted.

Dave, I only have two things to comment on:

1. Looks like in picture two just above the rockets on the port wing there is an indentation in the seam where the upper and lower wings were joined.

2. In picture four the 'rescue' decal is shriveled in the 'scu' part. (Bison beat me to this because he posted his reply while I was researching some pics...lol)

A great build dave. I've wanted to build one of these ever since I saw We Were Soldiers.

This might be of interest. While looking at some reference pics before addressing my comments, I came across this pic and story on a Skyraider website. While this pic isn't of aircraft 409 as you have depicted, it is of 412 of the same squadron. Here's the link and pic:

Skyraider MiG 17 Kills

Don't you got any shots of the bottom part? The view from all sides are good now I want to see some from the bottom.

Dave I think you are a better plane builder than tank, keep it up.

Rob

Excellent job once again Dave... But one more, I'm wondering where all of the armoured tracked models are!!!! What's with these flying things?!

I am not much of an airplane guy but like some have said looking at your work makes me want to build one. I like everything about your kit. If there were any imperfections I would be the last one to point them out. I think this is first class work!

Well done Dave.....


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Mr Tong,
The work as usaul is awesome I think you have done your decals extraordinarily well
congrats

Dave:
I leave for a week and this is what you do?
Looks awsome, you really have that Navy aircraft weathing thing down.
YOu gonna do the USAF Sandy now?

Once again Dave you have managed a superb job on a wonderful bird from the past. I noticed too that the map is of Russia . But Cat beat to the puch on that one, but you did forget the red lines the pilot's used to draw on the maps for their Aof A's. #:-)

Once again Dave another fine job. I gues now you are an EX Exclusive German Armor Builder.

Paul