This is the
excellent Hasegawa A-4E/F Kit, there's everything you need to make a early Kiwi
A-4K. The only mod you have to do is remove a couple bits on the intakes and
change the lower anti-collision light from the left to right hand side. I built
this kit a few years ago.
Except for the rocket launcher I used weapons from the Hasegawa weapons set a.
A-4's always look better fully loaded, so I decided to load the aircraft with 6
MK82's on a MER, a AIM-9G and 2 300 gal drop tanks. It was built out of the box
except for the exceptions below.
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When choosing the
colours, I used the Gunze Sangyo Acrylics for the Grey (FS36222), Brown (FS
30219), and Light green (FS 34102), for the Dark green (FS 34079) Gunze colour
looked way to dark so I used Tamiya's XF58 Olive green. This just looked more
like the green in the photos I had. As usual (for me) I airbrushed them
free hand, as real aircraft are usually painted free hand I figure I may as well
paint my models these
way.
One think I noticed is the access
ladder bends inwards just like the real thing. For the remove before flight tags
I used red painted tin foil cut into strips. This was before I discovered after
market RBF tags ;-)
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I used some of the Hasegawa
decals but the RNZAF decals are the excellent Gecko Graphics (www.gekkographics.com.au)
A-4 Decals. If you want to build a Kiwi A-4 these are the decals to get. I'll be
using them on the other 3 A-4s I intend to build. Overall though I think
it has turned out OK. There is one glaring error I made, considering I worked on
A-4K's I really should of noticed it. Still I'm not telling you lot
:-) Now if only Hasegawa would do a T Bird. See more of my models at www.gibstuff.net/models
Calum
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