Grumman A-6 Intruder

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

Martin o 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!

Hans Robben Very much IN in this project! Are you going to depict the event or trap?

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!

Hans Robben Bummer , still nice!

Łukasz Gliński Following

Hans Robben For those who don't know the story behind this:
https://fightersweep.com/291..ejection-and-miracle-at-sea/

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.

Jos Jansen I have the same fantastic kit ... if you start with this, then I am your loyal follower!

Soeren . Welcome Jos

Marko One have one LIKE from me.

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

Anna 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 @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.

Bryn Crandell Oooohhh. Intruder! Watching.

Dave Flitton I'm in

Davide Tessari Sooo nice

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.

Robert W Martel Nice one !!

Neil Miranda Started the model. Fueselage is together. will do wings folded.

Clifford Keesler Nice project.

Holger Kranich Hi Christian,

wow that really a lot of sanding, HB is owing you even some nerves AND putty! But regardless of the sanding session- your Intruder looks awesome so far! But its really annoying that a 75€ kit needs so much care...

Choppa Nutta ouch, is that how much that kit is ?
HB should at least provide some free sanding sticks and putty with the kit !!
and maybe chuck in a free scriber too

Vegard Øksenholt Plus the "Walkway" stencils are spelled "Walkwa".. annoying

Holger Kranich Thats indeed annoying!

Christian Ristits Thank you very much for your motivating words my friends! I think the outcome will be nice, but it's not an amk-kit
Vegard, you are correct, the Decals need also to be improved! Cheers, Christian

John Dunbar Uh, that's looking good!

Michael Hickey Nice so far.

Christian Ristits Thank you John and Michael, next will be work on the gear and wheels.