A-10 Thunderbolt Maly Modelarz

[John Bowden]

Looking great Gerardo!

There must be something "hoggish" in the air. Here's my latest latest drawing I uploaded to my site.......

john

[Willja67]

Originally Posted by John Bowden

There must be something "hoggish" in the air.

Does that make Papermodelers.com a pig sty?

[Yu Gyokubun]

Gerard, your workmanship of skinning on killer pig is superb.

[milenio3]

Originally Posted by Willja67

Does that make Papermodelers.com a pig sty?

Oink??

Good it doesn't smell that strong

Thank you friends for following me in this adventure.

Dragos, don't worry... I can tell you that I'm just messing up with the cockpit, 'cause I wanted to do a make-up there.

John, I just loved your draw!! Can I ask your permission to use it on the video when I'm done with the A-10? Sometimes, I made a little video to show how I made a model. You can see an example of a video for the F-16 here:
PaperJerry Modelismo a Escala en Papel: F-16 Modelo a Escala en Papel

Yug, I appreciate your words a lot.

[milenio3]

Let's continue with the wing roots.

Wing root structures. As you can see, I left the cereal without its box to use it on laminating these pieces.

And the support pieces installed.

[milenio3]

A little, tiny, insignificant detail... this kit's printing is not error free... it has stains. It looks like at the moment of printing this kit, it was either touched on wet ink or they left it in a unsafe place.
I hope it won't be so obvious in the final looks of the plane.

Wing roots with skins.


It looks clearly that the designer had some troubles on the kit. There are more than one spot where you can guess the need of applying high engineering on this plane.
I've been having many hours of dry-fits on the construction. But I think it is worth the effort.

[willygoat]

Gerardo,
Don't worry about the poorly printed spots. They are just worn down spots from the desert sand effectively sand blasting the aircraft.

[John Bowden]

Sure no problem. Let me know how you want it and I'll send you a Hi-Def version. JPEG or PDF if you prefer.

I'm almost finished with another A-10. I actually started two different poses (could not decide which to draw so I did both) and I'll post it up for you guys to see when I do finish with it.


john

[milenio3]

A very good idea, Willy! Thanks!

John, I'll PM you. And yes, please post the drawings!

[milenio3]

A little more on the A-10.

This is a very nice model, a new level for Maly.

The pieces to build the engines. Here we can build with stripes.


Main engine body. There you can see the cereal box "commercial".

Now the aft of the engine, part of the exhaust cover. There is the need to add an extra piece and paint it black so the white inner part won't be seen, including the stripes.

And now the exhaust installed.