Hello
ARC! This is my rendition of the classic Monogram A-1H Skyraider.
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base is a wooden plaque, with balsa wood cut and painted to represent the
deck of the USS Hancock circa 1965. I added a
True details weapons pylon set, and assorted bombs from a Hasegawa weapons
set. The decals I generated on the computer, then printed
them on my home computer. After
applying decals, I airbrushed a coat of MM Acryl Clear Flat, gave it a
wash using brown and black water colors, and grunged the fuselage up using
soft pastels, followed by another coat of clear flat.
This particular model
represents a plane that my buddy's uncle flew while deployed to Vietnam
back in 1965. He was actually mentioned by name on page 16 of
Osprey's A-1 Skyraider Units of the Vietnam War. LT(jg) Scott Wilkes
was assigned to VA-215 Barn Owls. On one particular mission, his
airplane took a lot of enemy fire but he managed to nurse it out of the AO
and bailed out over Laos. Fortunately, he was picked up by friendly
forces and was able to get back into the fight. I managed to research,
find and recreate unit specific markings, and I have the correct BuNo, but
I was only able to speculate the nose number by process of illumination.
End result is a little bit of history in 1/48 scale.
CHEERS!
Ramon R. Lomeli
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