A10 Charicature

[lepercan]

Slightly better shot. Looking forward to the paper model. My friend Possm(who loves the A-10)is gonna freak. Oh, Yeah the tail number is BR549. The old timers will get it.

[elliott]

Junior Sample!!

The number is BR 549 folks. That's right, come in today......(kicks car)

I loved that show! The skits were usually side-splitters. The cornfield, barbershop, fence, used car lot......ah memories.

Glooom, despaaair and agony on me;
Deep dark depression, excessive miserrry.
If it weren't for bad luck I'd have no luck at all;
Glooom, despaaair and agony on meeeeee.

:D:D

Oh, right. The show was "Hee-haw!".

Great model, Lep. Got any more pics?

[lepercan]

Not that are clear enough to show. I've pirated this link long enough

[nothing]

very nice! doing a great job with the build.cant wait to see more.

[cMags]

Ok, got a decent amount more done. Wings, tails, and one engine. Ran into a couple snags that were either easy to overcome to get the build, or just cosmetic things, detailed below. All in all its going well me-thinks.

The main wings were very straight forward and I built them using my tried-and-true internal tab-guided edge gluing. The first snag was the wing tip. It starts off as an L shape, but the inner edges that glue together to become the tip are not the same length:



So I trimmed from the tip at an angle out to the trailing edge, which allowed me to curl that section over to meet up with the bottom:



The other (minor) wing tip issue was that the inner edge didn't form a nice straight connection with the wing itself due to a sharp edge, which was easily trimmed:



Resulting in a nice clean wing:



Next I did the other wing (saw the same issues so they were easily overcome), the horiz and vert stabilizers, and engine:



The next issue is the engine exhaust. The colors fade from brown to a light tan, only to meet up again at the joint to form a hard line of color which doesn't seem right. Add to the fact that not all three rings join at the same spot, so you get an odd looking paint job:



Then we assemble the engine only to find that this joint needs to be facing up to get the right lines so the color edges become all the more obvious.




Again, not a huge issue, and not difficult to correct (the color anyway, the orientation of the split I'm not sure). And it looks fine from the side. But there it is anyway. As a beta I figured Trent would be happy for the nit-picks.

The plane is almost there. The weapons on the other hand, may take some time. I'll try to build a couple quick, but They're pretty straight forward and I'm sure the model will be releasable without a detailed beta of the ordinance.

[nothing]

all im getting are those pesky red x's on everything on page 2 of this thread. what happened?

[Alcides]

I can see all the images bytheway I want that model !!!

[Texman]

Since this is a caricature of a real plane, why not give it one of the silly looking J.A.W.S. schemes? Those spots would look natural on this one.

[cMags]

Originally Posted by nothing

all im getting are those pesky red x's on everything on page 2 of this thread. what happened?

Not sure why, images hosted on photobucket. Here's a direct link to the album - maybe you have it blocked or something?

A10 pictures by cmags - Photobucket

If you still can't see 'em, I can email 'em.

[milenio3]

This is looking great!