Pat C Posted April 12, 2014 Share Posted April 12, 2014 (edited) Right calling this one finished and off the shelf of doom!! The Fujimi A-7 is reckoned to be the best in 1/72 but this one fought me all the way and was very very close at one stage to taking flight in the direction of the nearest landfill! a71 Maybe I had a bad moulding but one fuselage half seemed to be fractionally bigger than the other resulting in a nasty step all the way round top and bottom. That needed lots of frenzied sanding resulting in fine engraved panel lines and blade aerials vanishing in clouds of plastic and filler dust. Also the inside of the intake looked like it was shortshot - unless it was moulded to look like a SAM had gone off in there! a76 Talking of the intake, this is nice and deep unlike other A-7 kits in 1/72, but one has to make a choice. It comes in two halves and you can either glue them together first allowing the seam down the middle to be easily cleaned up and then attach them to the fuselage - where they don't quite fit, or fit each half to the fuselage and then poke about in the intake with a cocktail stick wrapped in sandpaper for half a lifetime. I opted for the latter. I had to make my own tail "sting" as the kit had an earlier style which was not correct for this aircraft. a75 Paints were Xtracrylix LGG over Citadel white, but I am giving up in the Citadel white as although it covers nicely it is just too damn fragile. I may try one of the new Humbrol acrylics next USN build. The blue is a Model Master enamel FS15102 True Blue which I believe is the correct FS for this aircraft. The enamel sprayed like a dream thinned with white spirit and in an ideal world I would junk all my acrylics and replace them with these but for the almighty stink caused by cleaning up the airbrush. a77 The tips of the ejector racks were brush painted and again the MM enamel went on beautifully with no brush marks. The rather nice markings for VA-303 (which I think is a second line squadron) came from an old Microscale sheet. As I am finding out these old sheets annoyingly don't seem to include the marking on the wing tops and because of the highly stylised "ND" used by this squadron I had to scratch around for an alternative. There are other errors on the sheet like the "300" on the nose should be in an italic style font etc. I ended up buying another Microscale sheet and used a tail marking from another scheme with more or less the correct size of "ND". The size and position of the "300" on the wing is bit an educated guess as I could find no clear pics showing this. a73 Hope you like!!!! a72 Pat Edited February 11, 2018 by Pat C 28 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cardiff guy Posted April 12, 2014 Share Posted April 12, 2014 nice sluff Glenn 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
modelglue Posted April 12, 2014 Share Posted April 12, 2014 Nice fine weathering! I find Fujimi has some of the finest but ultimately hardest panel lines to negotiate. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
heloman1 Posted April 12, 2014 Share Posted April 12, 2014 Hi Pat, as you know, I'm a sucker for an A-7 and you've made a slendid job of the Fujiimi kit. It's one I haven't looked too hard at yet, so maybe I should. Congratulations and thanks for sharing your pics. Colin 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pat C Posted April 12, 2014 Author Share Posted April 12, 2014 Hi Colin - I'm glad you like it!! This "Golden Hawks" scheme is quite a spectacular one I think. There's something about the A-7 that I find rather appealing - must be the same thing that draws people to the Fairey Gannet!!!! Pat Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tomoshenko Posted April 12, 2014 Share Posted April 12, 2014 Very nice work. Sorry to hear about the difficulties, although you overcame them. I have a Fujimi A7E, and it looks like a really nice kit, is there much difference between the two? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Foghorn Leghorn Posted April 12, 2014 Share Posted April 12, 2014 That's a lovely corsair, in markings I've not seen before. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
batcode Posted April 12, 2014 Share Posted April 12, 2014 very nice work, great job 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cookenbacher Posted April 12, 2014 Share Posted April 12, 2014 Nice work - glad it stayed safely on the bench! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
F-32 Posted April 13, 2014 Share Posted April 13, 2014 Looks like a cracking build to me 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Val_Ukraine Posted April 13, 2014 Share Posted April 13, 2014 Lovely Corsair! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jean Posted April 13, 2014 Share Posted April 13, 2014 One of my favourite aircraft ever! And in ,my eyes, you have done it justice. One would never know you had so much trouble! Great build JR 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SkyMover Posted April 13, 2014 Share Posted April 13, 2014 Looks great; very high quality work and equally good photos. The A-7 is on my list to do. Chris 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ian Posted April 14, 2014 Share Posted April 14, 2014 Surprised to hear that you had trouble with the kit. I've built +/- six of these over the years and not had that level of problem with any of them. Great choice of decals and really well photographed too. Well done sir. Ian 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Val Posted April 14, 2014 Share Posted April 14, 2014 Looks like all the trouble was worth it, an amazing model 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pat C Posted April 14, 2014 Author Share Posted April 14, 2014 Surprised to hear that you had trouble with the kit. I've built +/- six of these over the years and not had that level of problem with any of them. Great choice of decals and really well photographed too. Well done sir. Ian Thanks for the comments everyone. It's entirely possible that the troubles were down to my own ineptitude, although a fellow BM'er was kind enough to send me a Fujimi A-7E and the moulding seems superior to this one. So it's maybe a combination of bad moulding and me modelling like I'm wearing boxing gloves as usual!! Pat Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pat C Posted February 11, 2018 Author Share Posted February 11, 2018 Another build de-bucketed!! 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Smudge Posted February 11, 2018 Share Posted February 11, 2018 Nice SLUFF. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CMSCHLOM Posted February 13, 2018 Share Posted February 13, 2018 Its always that the most difficult builds come out beautifully. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vultures1 Posted February 14, 2018 Share Posted February 14, 2018 Lovely result with that Fujimi A-7, build challenges notwithstanding Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Convair Posted February 14, 2018 Share Posted February 14, 2018 I had not seen this Corsair. What a beauty! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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