Grumman A-6 Intruder

Maciej Bellos My modelling skills are not that good to depict a broken canopy, a pilot with arms flailing in the wind and a parachute tangled on the tail. So let's say it will look like before taking off for that specific flight. Or maybe at the moment the seat ejects, which should be much easier. I might push this project up the queue and do a dual build with a Marine EA-6A, since both are Italeri kits with the same camouflage, but different squadrons and eras (nearly 20 years apart).
Thank you for your interest Hans and I'll keep you posted!

Łukasz Gliński Following

Maciej Bellos Welcome Łukasz.

Thanks Hans for the link, I missed that one.

Nigel Hell's teeth, what a story!

Maciej Bellos Welcome Nigel!

Holger Kranich When i first begin to like the Intruder, that freaking scary Story was one of the first i ever heard.

Maciej Bellos Unfortunately I have to cancel this build. I am not able to print the decals. So it will be build as one of the box decals.

Łukasz Gliński Pity Have you tried contacting Mr.Decal?

Oleg Bogolei Very good intruder, very accurate build

perry w h leu Great job. I loved it very much.

Neuling I agree with Oleg and perry.

Oleg Smilyk Beautiful.

Sven Schönyan Oh wow, how could I miss this! Excellent model as usual!

Marcelo Paiva Hi Guys! Finished my Fujimi A-6E Intruder. Scratchbuilt the extended flaps. All Xtracolor paints. Hope you like it!

Marcelo Paiva Added some pics I took with sunlight... you can see the difference in the shade.

Slavo Hazucha Very nice work on a quite old kit! The aging treatment you gave it looks great & doing those flaps also pays off

Marcelo Paiva Thank you Slavo!

István Szücs Following!

Patrick Hagelstein Watch out Ronan! This one doesn't have rotors!

Maciej Bellos Definately following!

Ronan Sometimes i
build planes ...

Patrick Hagelstein

Patrick Hagelstein This one too....

Jos Jansen Thank you guys, this is definitely a special edition. You can only find a few photos of this green camo intruder on the internet. This project is definitely for next year!

Jos Jansen Copy that Hans...don't be afraid, I am applying only subtle the weathering on my models...

Patrick Hagelstein Yep, that's a weathering/washing style I don't find attractive too. But, then again, looking forward to what Jos can pull off.

Stephan Ryll Very nice choice Jos

Patrick Hagelstein A sad sight but a very rewarding modeling subject. Looks interesting!

Martin von Schreckenstein WOW. original subject! Gonna watch this!

Nigel Definitely different!

Tino Löffler It will be fun, but first I have to finish a couple of other projects and get more information about this.
On this page I found the pictures and my informations.

geocities.ws/Pentagon/Bunker/7316/burial.html

Holger Kranich Those poor birds! But indeed an interesting subject!

Norbert Steffens Great idea. when do you wanna start?

Tino Löffler Oh Norbert, this is a good question. My hope is on December. I'm looking foe some cranes.

Marko One have one LIKE from me.

Christian Ristits Very well done, especially the paintjob and subtle weathering!

Anna-Elizabeth the Great Love to see models posed in-flight. Beautifully done, Congrats!

Michael Phillips Thanks Marko, Christian, and Anna! I am happy with how this turned out. This is my 3rd completed model build. The weathering is very subtle, that was my goal. Pictures of the real aircraft show it to be kept quite clean since this was a showbird of sorts. Anna, this is my first in-flight build, and I too love the look... but getting there is no fun! Closing the doors on this kit was not fun LOL. My next build will also be in-flight as well I think.

Wim van der Luijt That's one project you can be proud of! The weathering looks just right to me too...

Anna-Elizabeth the Great @Michael - I hear that, I'm closing the gear bays on a 1:48 Hasegawa F-4E, it's a lot of work.

Christian Meyerhoff Excellent Work! The Intruder is one of my favourties.

Sarunas D Looks good. Would you recommend this kit?

Holger Kranich Had this kit years ago... One of Monograms best! I had my fun, building it.

Michael Phillips Thanks Sarunas! This is a blast from the past... This was actually only the third model I ever built, back in late 2015, and my very first in-flight build. I had not yet started weathering my models, only used pre-shading at that point (and not black-basing at this point, that started with my 12th model, a VF-84 Hasegawa Tomcat).

I remember the kit being pretty nice, and fit being pretty OK. All raised panels, however. I would def recommend it, as long as you are aware it is not a state of the art kit by any means. But I have heard it is the most accurate, shape-wise, of all the 1/48 Intruder kits.

Stephan Ryll Very nice build and paintjob Michael

Clifford Keesler How did I miss this one? Great job.

Dan Owens Just got the new Hobby Boss A-6A from Sprue Bros and it looks awesome in the box! I am glad I sold my Kinetic kit when I did as this kit blows that one out of the water. One piece canopy as well, YAY!!!

Dan Owens The forward and main canopies in the Kinetic kit are in 4 pieces, 2 fwd pieces and 2 main pieces that are split laterally and having very little bonding surface to use. The Prowler canopies have 6 pieces total if I remember correctly. The HB kit has 1 fwd canopy (windscreen) and 1 maincanopy piece. I haven't noticed if you can open the canopy in the HB kit but I am sure you can. If this doesn't make any sense at all there are several forum thread around that talk about this issue. The detail on the HB is a lot sharper and crisper as well. HTH.

Kevin Ekstrom Choices are few my friend. I own a Fujimi kit and it is rather sparse but with a little work it can be made into something acceptable. I'm not sure if the price of the newer so called "super kits" are worth it. We are all modelers, so a little elbow grease is considered fun where I come from. I hope you enjoy your new HB kit. Don't let the small details get to you.