1/72 Academy OV-10A Bronco

by Björn Dol

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Indochina War -- 10,000Day War -- Vietnam War anniversary Feb 1 2007

 

This is the nice small Academy OV-10A Bronco.  With the Bronco there is only 1 problem; it is a real tail sitter. And you know what? There is almost no place to put any weight.  I stuffed up the nose with lead and put a big plate under the cockpit.  After finishing the model it was still sitting on its tail.  So when I installed the engines I put a lot of weight in there and it finally helped.  While building the model I used mostly Humbrol paints.

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The aircraft I made is form the 20th TASS/504th TASG of the USAF, it was stationed at Danang in 1969.
For painting the model I used a brush. Except for the upper wing, to get it white I used my airbrush.

The aircraft is armed with its usual 4 guns and next to that 2 rocket pods and 3 GP bombs.

For more pictures of this and other models you can go to my site; http://spunkmodels.dwaal.net/ 

Björn

Photos and text © by Björn Dol