A-4 Skyhawk design-1:100/1:200 scale

[paperengineer]

This is my new designing project. I decided that I need to start a new project to get back in the designing swing. With only a few panel lines left on my U-2 final product, I will post that soon. This model, to be available in two scales, will include IFR probe (I think that's what it is), landing gear, hardpoints, and ejection seats. Like all of my other planes, it will fly. I will try to finish this before I continue work on any other design project. Any 3-views or walkarounds will help.

[paperengineer]

almost done with some panel lines on the wings...

[cafe]

Great!

Careful if you're using the plans from Richard Ferrière's site. The 4-view of the A-4M is stretched vertically. I had to reduce the height in inkscape (from 96.937 x 98.868 mm to 96.937 x 89.089 in 1:200) in order to restore some sense of proportion between it and the A-4E & TA-4F.

[Yeti]

Nice work with the wing. I Look forward to watching how you design this thing!

[paperengineer]

Thank you guys. Cafe, as far as I know, none of my plans are directly from that site, but I don't know if any of my views are based off of it yet.

[paperengineer]

So I have finished the outline of the horizontal tailplane and will panel it soon, then move on to the tail and landing gear doors. As far as variants go, my standard is the a-4m, but I will probably make the A, B,C,E,F,G,L,K/AF-1,Oa-4M,N,PTM,P,Q,Y,SU,AR, a few I'm sure im forgetting, and some trainers. One really cool one that I just saw in one of my books is the TA-4SU super skyhawk. It has that same tacked-on-canopy look as the U-2 trainer does, which I find really cool. I'll probably build a ton of those here is a pic of one that I found online that shows the canopy well: