A-4 Skyhawk Airfix

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June 30, 2015
why it is upside down?
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June 30, 2015
again... sorry guys it is not like this in my album, but you can see the dials on the instrument panel anyway 🙂
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June 30, 2015
close pics of the tube finished
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June 30, 2015
close pics of the tube finished
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June 30, 2015
close pics of the tube finished
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June 30, 2015
close pics of the tube finished
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June 30, 2015
masking canopy (I hate this) using my special tecnik: I google search for pictures of canopy masks for my plane, than I print in some sises that I feel that is going to work, than I protect the print with a thick transparent tape for boxes, to cut over it
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June 30, 2015
some wires going on to represent the brake hidraulic lines
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June 30, 2015
standing very well with the pylons in there and primed for the preshading
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June 30, 2015
the pilons are not glued yet, by the way, my plane is sharing the same space in the shelf with my daughter´s puzzle :-/
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July 9, 2015
Snake eyes primed, painted, faded, washed, dry-brushed, gloss-clear-coated, decalled, flat-clear-coated and then.... Ufa! Finally readY!!!
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July 9, 2015
Some preshading going on
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July 9, 2015
Looking so nice with the full load hanging under the airframe! I just love this "armed to the teeth" look!
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July 12, 2015
I never stop having fun with preshading🙂
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July 12, 2015
Time for some nano touch up
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July 12, 2015
Masking the threads
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July 12, 2015
And painting the wheels
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July 12, 2015
Basic paint done, nice light gull gray from AK interactive!
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July 23, 2015
one accident with the masking tape and the paint pelled off with primer and everything, I cutted the paint in the panel lines and pelled them off so i can respray it
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July 23, 2015
just after I painted the white uper surface, I found some pictures that show that Airfix instruction completely misplaced the panel were the white should be painted
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July 23, 2015
that´s how it is supose to be, come'on airfix, a little more research on google and you could had passed without this mistake, it is embarasing....
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July 23, 2015
masking on the front wheels (didn´t worked as good as the rear ones...)
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July 23, 2015
Panels on the movable surfaces repainted (including the tail), slats in place, wheels and ir´s covers in place, the insignia red painted down...
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July 23, 2015
and a nice coat of clar varnish from humbrol clear (exatly the same stuff as the old Klear of Future floor ) ready for decals, God knows how it is going to conform in this vortex details... :-/
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July 24, 2015
Ordenance
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July 24, 2015
Half of the decals on!
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July 25, 2015
seems that airfix decals works well using Revell decal set solution
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July 25, 2015
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July 25, 2015
and than do the wash, but I am thinking that the panel lines are already very deep and visible, so not pannel line wash is going to be required, maybe some streaking of oils here and there will do
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September 15, 2015
Post- shading done using tamiya smoke and some masking tape/ post it sheets, first time doing this
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September 15, 2015
Some areas went out little overdone but I'm happy with the overall result
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September 15, 2015
It is a tricky technique, it seems that nothing is happening until you, Opps! Overdone....
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September 15, 2015
Further weathering using oils and pigments
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March 3, 2016
Finally decent pictures of the finished plane, sorry for the delay!
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March 3, 2016
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March 3, 2016
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March 3, 2016
navigation lights was painted silver and than clear red / green from tamiya / gunze, it give to my eyes a much better effect than the kit decals
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March 3, 2016
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March 3, 2016
the matt varnish I sprayed over the hole model kind of "faded" and "whitened" the vibrant colors, I like the effect, helped to unify the kit so it look less like a toy.
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March 4, 2016
lau-10 navy rockets and mk 82 snake eyes, weapons for low altitude atack, the most dangerous possible mission for the scout!
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March 4, 2016
the weapons came from hasegawa's weapon set, the internals of landing gear are very detailed! I scrach builded the landing light inside the landing gear door
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March 4, 2016
I did this light out of the clear part sprue, I sanded one edge round than sawed with a photoetch razer saw, than I glued, painted it´s rounded back silver, and insignia white on top of it
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March 4, 2016
than I putted a drop of clear coad on the clear flat side, and that is the efect you get, a bit of tinny job, very small to be seen, but I don´t know why I love so much to do it... also we can see the efect of tires's tread with the masking tape trick!
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March 4, 2016
one Carrier Deck printed to be one base.
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March 4, 2016
Some efects from my Iphone 🙂
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March 4, 2016
the final one! now, to the next project!!

Comments

30 June 2015, 20:17

trl
Solid job 👍

1 July 2015, 00:40

Pavel Pinzhin
Coming up really nice!
Can you tell, what did you fix the wires for hidraulics with? What is that thin yellow thing?..

1 July 2015, 03:14

Cesar Muniz
Hello Pavel, that yelow thing is just tamiya masking tape, sliced carefully with metal ruler and medical scalpel blade n°15 (smal curved one) the lead wire are hold in place by superglue and the tape is just to simulate some suports, I have no idea if the are realistic, but I like the efect of them holding the wire, happy modeling!

1 July 2015, 06:25

Soeren R.
Really nice job so far Cesar!

1 July 2015, 06:40

Pavel Pinzhin
@Cesar - Yes, I liked the effect too, it's looking qiute fitting and in scale! That's why I asked 🙂 Didn't think that Tamiya tape could look so miniature and thin. Thanks for the tip!

1 July 2015, 07:50

soheil moghisi
Very nice.

1 July 2015, 17:21

Es-haq Khosravi
Cool!

9 July 2015, 21:03

Rex
It's a different color,,,,,,,,,but, I just thought of some 1/72 ground crew getting all ticked off about having to remove all of that dark SprayLat.

9 July 2015, 21:34

Pierre-Christian Baudru
Great job so far ! Cheers.

25 July 2015, 11:26

Soeren R.
Nice progress!

25 July 2015, 11:28

Roberto Rocat
Lovely Navy bird 👍

15 September 2015, 19:17

Hanno Kleinecke
Excellent work, nice and crisp !

15 September 2015, 19:42

Christian Bruer
Bravo-Zulu on that Scooter!

15 September 2015, 20:00

Pierre-Christian Baudru
Great model ! Why do you place the landing gear legs before to paint the model ? Ok in this case everything was white so I understand....Cheers.

16 September 2015, 07:50

Cesar Muniz
pierre, you got the idea! vc é brasileiro? abraco!

16 September 2015, 19:13

Pierre-Christian Baudru
Sou quase brasileiro, nasci na Bélgica mas morei no Brasil de 1974 até 2006. Agora estou na Suiça. E vc esta onde ? No Brasil ? Abs.

16 September 2015, 19:37

Cesar Muniz
Que legal! Eu sou brasileiro com cidadania italiana, moro na alemanha a 3 anos

17 September 2015, 12:32

Jan Stary
Nice finish!

17 September 2015, 12:38

Cesar Muniz
Jan, thanks, this are not the final pictures, there is missing the ordinance and some further weathering and I'm preparing final scratch building last-minute-made details, stay tuned for more updates!

17 September 2015, 12:56

Jan Stary
Yes I know. Even now it is very nice

17 September 2015, 13:35

B. M.
Staying tuned for this one! Great job so far! Looking forward to the final result.

3 November 2015, 12:21

John Thomas
Very nice

3 November 2015, 12:44

Jose Miguel Rodriguez
Excelente!!!!!!!!!!!

3 March 2016, 22:21

Choppa Nutta
nice

4 March 2016, 01:48

Pierre-Christian Baudru
GREAT A-4 !

4 March 2016, 10:22

John Thomas
Very nice work

4 March 2016, 13:19

Ekki
Beautiful work result.

4 March 2016, 17:13

Erik Leijdens
Very nice Scooter!

4 March 2016, 19:53

David Thor
Wirklich schöner Vogel, hoffe ich kriege meinen auch so hin! 🙂

12 May 2016, 07:14

Rex
That is a very good looking model. I too noticed the painting instructions were wrong. But, you found it in time, and fixed it. I don't how to say this without being labeled a rivet counter, but, the boxart is correct, the A-4B only had 3 pylons. That extra pair is there in case you do one of the "rebuilt and sold" Skyhawks for some of the foreign operators.

12 May 2016, 17:29

Clifford Keesler
Nice one.

12 May 2016, 18:11

Cesar Muniz
thanks for the coment guys Rex, I know the thing with the pylons, (this time the instructions was right) but as I like my birds fully loaded with stuff (and the pylons was already in the sprues) I tough with myself: Why not? 😉 I hate left unused parts behind, I know it is not accurate but looks cooler to me, I am only sad about the fact I could not reopen the speed brakes to show it off as the paint glued in that position that was supose to be temporary there with blue tac... David, das ist eine einfach Vogel, Ich bin sicher Du kann eine super model auch machen! 🙂 Ich habe eine bischen deutsche gelernet aber Ich bin noch sehr schlecht kkk

13 May 2016, 21:50

Rex
Oh, that is okay by me. If you chose to do it that way, that is our right as modelers. My philosophy with info is to give it, and then the modeler makes his choices for himself. So, you chose to make an "A-4B heavy lifter", sort of a minor Whiff model. (and the A-4 should have had 5 pylons from the start, don't you think?)

(it costs me nothing to give away info, it costs the reader nothing to read it,,,,,,,and variety is why we all model, otherwise once someone did something, there would no reason for anyone to do that same subject)

14 May 2016, 06:20

David Thor
Ah, i thought you were a german native speaker. thanks for the motivation, i will try my best! 🙂

14 May 2016, 08:44

Cesar Muniz
Rex, I feel the same! I like wen my models aren't accurate because I want it that way on purpose and not because I didn't know the correct way, It is nice to see people paying attention on my model and I am very happy with your comments it just shows that you know what you are talking about!

14 May 2016, 15:09

Rex
I'm just glad I didn't offend. That is a sweet little kit, isn't it? Parts that fit, etc, I noticed that your's only took a tiny amount of Red Putty. I also use the Red, because it shows up so well that I can get a model mostly built, look at the Red and it shows me how well the kit fit together. That is because once I get White and Gray paint on it, I tend to forget all the filling and sanding I had to do to get to the two main colors. (or my mind blocks out the memory, lol)

14 May 2016, 16:05

Łukasz Gliński
Nice one, looks really cool

14 May 2016, 17:01

Album info

Trying out a lot of new stuff on this bird! : AK interactive primers and paints Humbrol clear for clear coat instead of future, and vallejo washes, let´s see how they behave.

A-4 Skyhawk Airfix

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