dsahling1 Posted February 14, 2017 Share Posted February 14, 2017 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. Despite the cockpit being perfectly suitable OOB, I got case of "AMS" and 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'd highly recommend their products to fellow modelers). 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 easier? 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-6A as I figured since this plane was relatively new I didn't want to overdo it. I like using a palette of colors to "mottle" and discolor some of the paint a little to keep it interesting for the eye to look at. I know the airbrakes on the fuselage of the A-6 were disabled and I think in some cases were riveted shut. However, I wanted to show some extra detail. Even if they were disabled, does anyone know if were possible to open them up for some kind of inspection purpose? 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 forego ordnance 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! tucohoward, Sammy, Tony T and 16 others 19 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dsahling1 Posted February 14, 2017 Author Share Posted February 14, 2017 Sammy, MikeMaben, A-10LOADER and 21 others 24 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted February 14, 2017 Share Posted February 14, 2017 Just WOW !!.........Harv Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jan_G Posted February 14, 2017 Share Posted February 14, 2017 perfect Intruder! I really like your finish on this one jan Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LSP_Kevin Posted February 14, 2017 Share Posted February 14, 2017 Another awesome build, Dan! And another one I'd love to publish on the website. Kev Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vandy 1 VX 4 Posted February 14, 2017 Share Posted February 14, 2017 love the weathering on the walkways,nose Radom well just everything Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dsahling1 Posted February 14, 2017 Author Share Posted February 14, 2017 Another awesome build, Dan! And another one I'd love to publish on the website. Kev It'd be an honor Kev! Go right ahead! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shawn M Posted February 14, 2017 Share Posted February 14, 2017 great weathering and a nice clean build to boot Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Uncarina Posted February 14, 2017 Share Posted February 14, 2017 Outstanding work and finish! Cheers, Tom Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shaka HI Posted February 14, 2017 Share Posted February 14, 2017 Love the weathering on this one...wow! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Urs Posted February 14, 2017 Share Posted February 14, 2017 Extremly hot paintjob.Just wow.ðŸ˜ðŸ˜ðŸ˜ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
joe Posted February 14, 2017 Share Posted February 14, 2017 Awesome Intruder. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blackbetty Posted February 14, 2017 Share Posted February 14, 2017 very nice build! i may have to do another one... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
reconspit Posted February 14, 2017 Share Posted February 14, 2017 Thumbs up.... really cool bird..., great job, dude... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EagleAviation Posted February 14, 2017 Share Posted February 14, 2017 Fantastic work! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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