A-7 Corsair II in 1/200

[cafe]

The main landing gear struts are a variant of those I designed for the Mirage III and MiG-21 families. See here for the actual shape/assembly.

[3Turner]

Originally Posted by cafe

BTW, I uploaded the A-7D to the dowload section and it's is awaiting approval.

All Done .

[hawkman67]

Thank You for the link, pictures are always a great help in explaining.
I also really like how you have combined the gear wells and doors into once piece. Very cool way of doing them. I am impressed by all of your work on the little birds.
Regards, Jeff

[cafe]

Thanks 3Turner & Jeff.

[cafe]

Here are some pics taken while building the VA-82 Marauders variant (now in the download section)

Edit because I just realized I forgot to add the NAVY markings on the sides of the rear fuselage. Oops! BRB correcting the PDF file.

[cafe]

I added the NAVY markings with a pen and finished building the VA-82 Marauders aircraft.



I also built a little what-if.



Family picture:



Here endeth the Corsair II saga for now. My summer vacation is ending.

[hawkman67]

Oooh, the "what if" version is very nice looking will go good with the F-8. The all blue is appealing. Thanks again for sharing your little creations . I certainly look forward to the next one..
Regards, Jeff

[milenio3]

Nice little airplanes!!

[cafe]

Thanks. The pdf for the french what-if version will also have this colour scheme.

[-Jim G]

Originally Posted by cafe

There's a free 1:72 A-7D in SEA camo somewhere. It was released by Rob Carleen and is a variant of the 1:60 A-7E he designed for Fiddlersgreen. I thought I had gotten it from either here, Zealot or DGApapermodels but it seems I was mistaken.

I just perused my memory and the Design Group Alpha archives... my recollection is that Rob designed the A-7 before we formed the DGA. Chip simplified Rob's model to be more in keeping with his Fiddlersgreen standards.

I think this all predated Zealot too - I am thinking that Rob made his model available through the old cardmodels.com(?) site.

BTW, Cafe I like your 1/200 scale model very much. You do amazing things so small.