Douglas A-1 Skyraider

Donald Dickson II Alrighty!

Nathan Dempsey This is the one Donald. Kinda been working on it (on & off) for a long time. The kit was given to me partially built, but it was begging to be finished. I've already got the paint reworked and the decals applied. The kit was missing all of the hard-points though, but I recently acquired some resin replacements. Also resin fuel tanks for this project are in the mail right now, so it's time to finish it off.

Nathan Dempsey Just added an album with a teaser image:Skyraider VA-145 | Album by Plastic Addict (1:48)

Greg Borisko Agreed.

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Ekki Good result. Well done.

Robert W Martel Another one of my favorite planes. Nice job

KollHBM Thanks.

Dante Cosentino Caracal has just re-released this sheet. I gave up looking long ago, so I emailed them last week. Great to see they are receptive to suggestions!

Clifford Keesler Nice.

Holger Kranich Any progress here, Thomas?

Thomas Mayer Hi Holger! The build has slowed done due to health issues. But some progress has been made, first to be shown on our young forum here:
spamodeler.proboards.com/post/70/thread

Holger Kranich Health issues? Dont sounds good!

Larry E Nice...

Vegard Øksenholt Very nice! Hope you will continue on this project soon Thomas

Thomas Mayer Vegard, I hope so, too!
Thanks for your nice comment!

Kerry COX Thomas. I am wondering if your progress with this build has gone any further, as I still have not completed mine either. ?

Thomas Mayer Indeed I got further, before storing it on the shelf of doom due to having got interested to build another kit... It´s now down in the basement, well covered in a plastic box.
I think about getting it back to the bench, but I miss the mood to do anything these days...

James C Outstanding work Bryce. It looks amazing. I've wanted to get this kit myself for ages now.

Camilla Josdal It looks fantastic, it's a really good job you've done!

Bryce Nicely Thanks, guys. James, it's really a great kit. I know it's an older offering from Tamiya, but it really lives up to the name. Even the decals settled nicely, which I haven't had happen much with kit decals from Tamiya.

JOHN THOMAS Very nice

James C It's always been around $80.00 NZ, but You may have convinced me. really inspiring work.

Bryce Nicely Oh wow, I got it for about 30$ here in the states.

Soeren . Awesome work!

MRMLA Looks pretty well!! Great!

Camilla Josdal You've done an amazing job so far, excited to follow the rest of your build!

JOHN THOMAS Very nice

Bryce Nicely Thanks guys. There will be a little delay while I wait for the Quickboost canopy retractor to get here, but just a short one. I'll probably start paint on the rest of the plane until that comes though.

Antonio R Looking really good, I also ordered the same kit , I hope to get it in the post today or next week, however really nice progress on this guy.

James C Looking fantastic. Great job on the camouflage.

Rex So, I looked at the Quickboost photo. Isn't that the Yankee extraction system? Instead of a "canopy retractor" The Yankee Extractor is essentially a rocket that grabbed the pilot and blasted him up and out through the canopy,,,,,,,,such as "deploy and then fire" right through there.

One of those "okay, it will save my life,,,,,,but, let's not do any practice runs with it" lol

Bryce Nicely Thanks, James!

Rex, I've always read that it was just a boot that covered the canopy retractor. I know early models didn't have it, but all of the later single seat versions that I've seen did. It may have been part of the Yankee, which would explain why it was on the later versions. And it's definitely something I wouldn't want to test.

Spanjaard looking really nice so far.

Rex Well, it looks just like the Stanley Aviation drawings of the Yankee Extractor on page 62 of the Warbird Tech book, and page 166 of the first Ginter Skyraider book.

Bryce Nicely Just looked at my Wardbird Tech book and I guess you're right. Don't know how I missed that before.

Rex Shrug,,,,,,I miss stuff all of the time. If you have a minute, look in the very back of that book. I searched for YEARS for that pod for one of my RF-4B models. It turned out that I have had a drawing suitable for scratch building one that whole time. Just make one, then modify the nose and make another, and we can have the two versions that were carried together for an RF-4B

I also missed the fact that FS595C is NOT the current version,,,,,,it is back to 595A again, as issued by the SAE. (they took over from the GSA)

Daniel Phelps Awesome work, love the paint job! My hat is off to you.