The A-10 is about
the only airplane explicitly designed for CAS - ground support. It comes with
this powerful GAU-30 cannon which fires up to 4000 rounds per minute of 30 mm
ammunition (explosive oder depleted uranium) and I guess nobody wants to be on
the receiving end of this gun.
My little diorama shows an A-10 getting ready for a somewhat different mission.
It's being loaded with 2 GBU-10 2000 lbs laser guided bombs (pylons 3 and 9)
together with 4 SUU-30 cluster bombs (pylons 4 to 8). So this will be a bombing
mission rather than CAS.
For self defense it's got 2 AIM-9L (pylon 1 with launcher) and the AN/ALQ-131
ECM pod (pylon 11).
The weapons and ground vehicles are Hasegawa. Colors are Gunze acrylics. Future
was used for intermediate coatings and the cockpit canopy. Also Eduard PE parts
were used (almost a 100 parts really can make life hard - but it's worth the
effort). Washing with oil-paint.
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A lot of work also
went into cockpit and landing gear which I tried to detail as much as
possible...
...and I'm really ashamed for the
upside-down AF logo. But living in Austria doesn't make you too sensible on USAF
logos
Hope you like my Hog
Mike
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