1/48 Hobbycraft Skyhawk A-4Q

Gallery Article by Petit James on June 24 2009

 

Kit: Hobbycraft A-4B Falklands fighter
Version : Navy Argentina ( 3°escuadrilla aeronaval de caza y ataque )
Registration aircraft n° : 3-a-308
Painting : over fuselage Humbrol n°129 : Underneath Revell white
painting flag drift : Humbrol n°47 + Revell white
I did not use the decals flags kit Hobbycraft for the drift and the aircraft (too ugly to my taste and very nice in the airbrush painting).

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Before I applied the decals (Armada, Anchor and miscellaneous), I first airbrushed some varnish gloss in their places.

Additional items from Eduard 1:48 (remove before flight) on the bomb 500 kgs
Weathering of the plane with a juice diluted of black is of white spirit.
Brightness of painting on the airframe with of the aluminium painting.

I can finally contemplate my A-4Q that I had dreamed of!
For the pleasure of those love the Argentinean Skyhawks, in my home it is a Skyhawk factory.  

Always in ascent.......

Petit James

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Photos and text © by Petit James