Adversary A-4E

[kolja]

Since my Intruder is almost done, I needed to chose the next project. A friend sent me a couple kits while he was thinning his stash, so I figured I should do one of those - and of the two of them, the Hasegawa A-4E seemed like the best choice. It didn't hurt that its TOPGUN boxing reminded me I had quite an inventory of adversary markings of my own.

So, here's the next project:

 

[JMac]

NICE! I'll be following along.

Blue/grey or two tone brown?

 

[kolja]

Sorry, forgot to mention, the blue and gray

 

[Glorfindel]

Looks sweet. I'll be watching this.

 

[Holden]

Cool subject, I'll be following along. ;D

 

[kolja]

First photo-worthy progress; I've deliberately left off the upper ejection seat handle since I figure it would be easy to break off and lose. Next up is painting and detailing the quite nicely molded nosewheel well. As you can probably see its molded to the cockpit tub, and I figure now would be easier to do it than when it was sandwiched into the fuselage halves.

 

[FlipFlop]

Office looking good, keep it up.

Here is great documentary about A-4 - might be helpful (if you haven't seen it already):

Discovery Wings Great Planes - A-4 Skyhawk

Cheers!

 

[Carsenault]

Cool, I love aggressor schemes. Gonna be following this tread. Not sure if you have the same sheet but one of the Twobobs A-4 sheets has markings for Jester's A-4E from Topgun.

 

[Glorfindel]

Man that is one tiny cockpit. Looks great from where I'm sitting.

 

[kolja]

My summer seems to have vanished in a flurry of work travel (and one leisure trip) which definitely slowed things down, but I've been able to plod along here and there.

This picture is from earlier this week, as I got the fuselage halves joined, with all the 'innards' sandwiched in place. I also got the intakes on - not thinking things all the way through, I managed to paint the outer pieces of each intake assembly white which isn't actually necessary since the intake lips and splitter plates aren't, well, white. But in the realm of modelling screw ups, that one's easy to fix.



Now, on to the wings!

 

[Ferris928]

Liking your progress. The 'office' looks great!
looking forward to seeing more.

 

[Fork Virus]

Wait a minute... Did you use a sharpie to paint the cockpit?

 

[kiwi gav]

Looking Good.


brings back memories. The "Skyhawk" was about as advanced as the New Zealand Airforce got.


Classic Fighter

 

[kolja]

Wait a minute... Did you use a sharpie to paint the cockpit?

LOL no, that just happened to be the nearest thing handy to prop it up for taking the picture ;D

In the meantime, I got some wing work done:

 

[kolja]

Since the last update, I managed to get the white stuff painted, well, white, though neglected to take a picture of it.

Today came the preshading. Still heavy handed in spots but I feel a little better about it than the previous project. Next up, the first of three colors of camo (2 shades of gray and one of blue).

 

[letsgobrowns82]

I love the Adversary paint schemes! I did the Tamiya F-16 Aggressor. Great job on the cockpit. Cant wait to see her painted up.

 

[Ferris928]

Taking shape nicely. Keep at it!

 

[Mr.Max]

As an A-4 fan, I'll be following as well.
Carry on!

 

[kolja]

Thanks guys! Real life has, annoyingly, kept me busy - but I've been plugging away. Here's the first bit of camo color:

 

[letsgobrowns82]

Awesome camo you've got going there. I love it!