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This one fought me somewhat, but I got there in the end. It was missing an air intake and its canopy, so some old-school modelling was needed to finish. The underlying kit is a FROG issue of the Hasegawa mould - I am told that there are shape issues, particularly around the nose, and that the hump is too rounded, but it is a good kit to assemble and it looks OK to me!







Replacement air intake from Milliput, moulded using another kit and some silicon mould material:



Replacement canopy, crash moulded again using another kit, Milliput and silicon mould, then acetate, a hair dryer and some force!



Looks OK, but a little Tippex filler needed:



And Voila: ....





As always, everything is hand brushed using Humbrol enamels.

and finally, for comparison, I built the same kit a few years back as an A-4G, without a hump, but with decals courtesy of Modledecal:



FredT

Sweet Scooter, Fred. Excellent work on the intake and canopy.



David

Looks very good.

Well tidy build as usual grengriz

Very nice.

Very nice indeed, Fred, including your work replacing the intakes and canopy.

Great modelling skills to replace missing parts, and both look really good!

That's a nice Kiwi Scooter Gengriz, at least it's a proper A-4K you've modelled, not an ex-RAN A-4G. I have photos of Kiwi A-4Ks at HMAS Albatross in 1982/83 dressed just like this.
The Hasegawa kit's nose is very off for shape along with the avionics hump and some other niggles, not the worst A-4, but not the best either.
The ESCI A-4E is still one of the best around (I have over 20 to do as RAN birds), far better than a "fat" Fujimi A-4 or this overly stretched Hasegawa offering.
Any RAN A-4G is a great A-4G!!!

That's a very nice Skyhawk you put together. I really like the ingenuity shown in making the canopy and air intakes.

Super result fred.

Nice result Fred!

Stu

Great build!

Looks good!
This Hasegawa mould?

novokits wrote:Looks good!
This Hasegawa mould?

Yes. FROG F271 - 100,000 units produced in Japan by Hasegawa and sold by FROG from 1970-1974.


FredT

Very bonny. The A-4 suits SEA camo.