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To build this model I used the
following aftermarket detail items;
- Black Box Resin Cockpit Set
The construction begins....
As I was building a Block 89A Prowler, I had to do some
adjustments to the kit as well as the Black Box resin cockpit set. I
studied reference photos and made the necessary improvements.
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The antenna and ECM pod are from
the Cutting Edge set 48053.
This is a resin conversion set that fixes the
extensive inaccuracies in the Revell kit and includes fixes for the wings,
pylons, ECM, and fuselage. I was building a different type of EA-6B than
comes in the Revell kit, so aftermarket items were needed.
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I also used the
resin wingfolds from Cutting
Edge as the ones from Paragon Designs require more work.
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Weapons
For the AGM-88 HARM's, I used the ones that come in
the Hasegawa F-16CJ kit as I found these to be of a higher level of accuracy
than the AGM-88's that come in the Hasegawa weapons set.
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Painting
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I used Mr Color to do the main
painting with my airbrush. For emphasizing the panel lines and such I used
a wash from Humbrol enamels
to bring out the details.
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Decals
For the main decals I used the CAM
Decals sheet 48-068.
One problem I had with this decal sheet was the animal head in front of the
engine intakes. On the real plane in my reference photos this animal head
is black, but on the decal sheet it is brown. I fixed this by making up a
new animal head decal in black on an ALPS printer.
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The decals represent a EA-6B from
August 1999 at Atsugi Naval
Air Station.
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Hiroyuki
Editors note: this article was written in
Japanese and than put through a translation program to get the rough English
translation. From there I wrote up the article with help from Drewe
Manton.
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