1/72 Hobby Boss A-7 Corsair

Gallery Article by Paul Fernandez on Dec 9 2009

 

This is my recent build, a Hobby Boss 1/72 A-7D Corsair.  I was planning to build another Phantom to enter the UK Nationals and planned to open some panels but when I saw this Sluff, I changed my mind.  HB already opened avionics' bays for you so don't need to worry about scratch building and buying aftermarket resins (saving me precious time)

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Building is straight forward and it didn't have any major problems except misaligned holes in the bombs for attachments and missing pitot tubes. It is  not included and this is my entry for OOB category, so scratch building it is a no no.
No black pre shading done, instead of painting the panel lines first then the misting the middle part with paint. Then my home brew panel line sludge.
A coat of Klear on the parts that will receive decals and flat coat after.

I also includes my F-4 and F-5 in SEA livery in one of the picture just to show my SEA A/C collections.
Nothing special done but manage to get a medal from the recent Scale Model World (1/72 OOB category).
Hope you enjoy it.
Paul Fernandez

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Photos and text © by Paul Fernandez