quang

I’m using this. Apply a thin coat with a soft brush. Let dry overnight. Paint as usual.
HTH
Quang

no, not them...
 
Keep
It
Simple
Stupid

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Have you considered perforated dive brakes à la Dauntless? Just a thought 

Have you considered perforated dive brakes à la Dauntless? Just a thought 

I got one second-hand a few months ago. Never had the opportunity to open the box.
But considering the shape of the canopy, it wouldn’t be too difficult to put it together, using the kit parts and home-made masks.
Of course, it’s your wallet YMMV 

Hi Thai,
My brother and I grew up in Vietnam, so the A-1 Skyraider was near and dear to our hearts, my brother being an A-1 aficionado much more than I am. After I told him about your A-1E project, he was very enthusiastic but soon started to point out a few errors:
1. The airplane in Riverside, CA which you inspected was an AD-5W with its radar radome removed. Its underbelly is different from the AD-5, the latter being flat and carrying a center pylon.
https://images.app.goo.gl/YXC6Swq77c5Bt3pJA
 
2. The shape of the fillet of the vertical stabilizer is different and there should be no crease on the vertical portion of the stabilizer.
https://www.nationalmuseum.af.mil/Visit/Museum-Exhibits/Fact-Sheets/Display/Article/195821/douglas-a-1e-skyraider/
 
We would like your first baby to be as perfect as you could make it, so I hope that you would not mind our input.
 
Tim

Hi Tim, thanks for your advice.
I think you're right about the belly recessed area. Unfortunately, most of the online pictures I found are of AD-5W or of 5W restored as 5, so that recessed area are present, plus in the Structural Repair Manual (AN 01-40ALE-3) for all AD-5 variants they said that "all lower skin panels typical for AD-5, 5N, and 5W except panel 3A" so I thought they have the same bottom skin. I'll set this fuselage aside and modify a copy of it to match the real AD-5.
 
For the horizontal stabilizer I based it off of top down drawings from the same manual plus Maintenance Manual for the AD-5N (AN 01-40ALE-2) and the AD-5 Flight Handbook (01 40ALE-1). Maybe it's a matter of photographer's angle/lens focal length or some optical thing at play I guess? I'll look into it regardless. I do agree that the elevators should have a sharper outer corner making the outer edge straighter.
 
Attached are some photos of drawings that I mentioned
 
 
P/s: Of course it has to come with VNAF marking, no AD-5/6/7 kit is complete without VNAF marking lol. For this one I'm planning to do 52-132633 of 520th FS Thần Báo, I'm gonna reserving the SEA camo scheme VNAF for the A-1G (AD-5N), it carries one pretty distinct feature that American Skyraiders didn't have and single seaters didn't either  

 

Indeed! 
Not sayin’ but intently watching from the shadows 
Q.

Let’s face it. WNW was but a rich person’s whim. It came at the right moment to create a small following and died off when the owner’s thrill was gone.
Modern-day manufacturers like Border Models and MiniArt also raised the injected plastic kits to a new standard BUT they did it without the tra-la-la. As always it’s the fanfare which annoys me.

The great Edgar wouldn’t agree but this is another way of threading the Sutton…

Let’s face it. WNW was but a rich person’s whim. It came at the right moment to create a small following and died off when the owner’s thrill was gone.
Modern-day manufacturers like Border Models and MiniArt also raised the injected plastic kits to a new standard BUT they did it without the tra-la-la. As always it’s the fanfare which annoys me.

I’ve been a fan of WWI and between-the -wars biplanes long before they became the fad… but curiously I was never impressed by WNW.
Now I know why. 

I should have warned you earlier but Nam Bolts had NO corrugated floor. Ah well! 

It's made of seperate sides and tops.
Easy to mess up with glue.
 
 
 

 
 
Review...
 
https://www.hyperscale.com/2010/reviews/kits/revell04688reviewbg_1.htm

I’ve been a fan of WWI and between-the -wars biplanes long before they became the fad… but curiously I was never impressed by WNW.
Now I know why. 

I’ve been a fan of WWI and between-the -wars biplanes long before they became the fad… but curiously I was never impressed by WNW.
Now I know why. 

I think you’d need less extended masking if you lower your air pressure. But it’s only me 

I also used to think that.
Until I recently found that with modern metal model paints, pigments are much, much finer than before and that one can nowadays play with the opacity of the metallic paints. Something we couldn’t do in the older days.
On my current MiniArt P-47 build, I only used one single metallic paint (Mr Hobby Super Metallic 2).  The tonal variations were achieved by varying the contrasts in the gloss black/gloss white base and playing with the metallic paint opacity.



 
HTH
Quang

Ha! indeed, the sempiternal inter-service rivalry. 
Some Air Farce jocks tried to instigate folding wings. But since the Jug’s wingspan was not over-long, the decision was to fold just a small portion of the wing tip à la A6M2. It’s still unclear whether the project was brought to fruition, but wing-folded Jugs were spotted by IPMSers at Phu Cat AB in April 1968.

“Corrugated floors are valid on Navy Bolts as a protection against wet feet” Dixit Tailhook Spunk

“Corrugated floors are valid on Navy Bolts as a protection against wet feet” Dixit Tailhook Spunk

I should have warned you earlier but Nam Bolts had NO corrugated floor. Ah well! 

Hey, I’m no Indiana Jones