Grumman A-6 Intruder

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.

Michael Hickey Hey Lex, your not the only one with that itch.

Kerry Cox Yeah, there will be a few more extra itches to be scratches before the end of the year.

Kerry Cox Hello Mike

Michael Hickey G'day Kerry, how have you been?

Kerry Cox I am well Mike. I hope the same goes for you and your family mate.
It's nice to say G'day again.

Michael Hickey

Christian Bruer Bravo-Zulu

arne vd burg Good looking Intruder Clifford

Dave Morris Iv'e never built a Kinetic kit before, what are they like?

Clifford Keesler I've heard some pretty nasty things about them, but I haven't had any problems yet.It can be built with the wings folded which I like. I'll let you know how it goes. I know they have some interesting aircraft.

Ingmar Stöhr Wow! Thank you all for your kind comments.
@Markus: I can not really comment on accuracy. The outer pylons should be placed directly at the folding mechanism. The "bombs" do require some filling. The rockets are rather bad. But otherwise I enjoyed the build. There where no fit issues. the cockpit is very detailed. I would build it again.

Łukasz Gliński Very nice and clean

Ray Seppala Lovely work Ingmar Finsih looks very crisp

Ingmar Stöhr Thank you!

Sven Schönyan Da werden Jugenderinnerungen wach. Der Bausatz hat seit dem nichts von seinem Charme verloren. Tolles Modell Ingmar!

Ingmar Stöhr Danke!

Stephan Ryll Jup that's a nice one

Doug Outstanding

Ulf Petersen Wonderful Intruder, Pete!

Harry Eder Very nice build!

Pierre-Christian Baudru GREAT JOB !

Bart Goesaert pff... very nice...

Eelco Gregoire He looks great!

Anthony Flanagan I love U.S. wareplanes. Great work!!

Christian Ristits Great!

Stephan Ryll Very nice "double ugly"

Hans Spa Got it!

Clifford Keesler Awesome job.

brewitman Thanks guys

Clifford Keesler You are welcome sir, well deserved compliments.

Philippe Verhelst It's an awful kit ! Dont take it / buy it !

Rex haha, I agree,,,,,,the sad part is that the kit is an "upgrade" of another famous kit (Hasegawa)

Philippe Verhelst Yep, I got also the Hasegawa. And at first I was thinking : cool, must be a repack.
But Nooo, it's not.
Got lot of work to assemble it. Will use it for my first airbrush and as a training for the Hasegawa.

Philippe Verhelst Still need to add the nose landing gear to be complete and also need to make some paint correction to the nose.
Finally get it done with weapons and landing gear.
Same problem as the Tomcat, take so much time to complete it.
Also it the first time I used putty to make lot of correction and get it more seamless joint.
First time also i added weight in the nose to have my kit not going down. Fortunately I have found a old lead pipe.
Also the gluing and paint of the canopy was not very nice, but détails Inside of the canopy are inexistant.
After that I will be ready to make my hasegawa intruder kits.