Douglas A-8 Skydragon - What-if

[Tomcat101]

Hi All,

 

While enjoying the site today I came accross GiampieroSilvestri's what-if of a Dassault Rafale combined with an A-4 Skyhawk (check it out - very creative).

 

With that in mind I thought I'd add a similar project of my own.  I bought a second hand and badly abused Monogram A-4 Skyhawk/Mongoose and in the end decided to do a what-if creation.  For background in the mid-1960s the US Navy was looking for a Skyhawk replacement - a contest eventually won by the Vought A-7 Corsair II.  This is my version of the fictitious Douglas entry, the A-8 Skydragon.  For the keen eyed the fuel tanks, electric counter measure pods, centre line photo recon pod and vertical stabilizer came from an Airfix 1/48 scale Jaguar (see Forlorn Jaguar post).  The engine exhausts came from the nacelles of a Ju-188, the wings from a Su-7 and the rest (excluding a ton of filler) came from the spares box.  The aircraft is depicted as it might have appeared in the mid-1970s serving with the Swedish Air Force . A personal triumph of hard work and determination over common sense and useful time management but it was fun.  

 

Kind Regards,

Tomcat101        

 

 

 

 

 

[Mynimal]

Fantastic

[ian1485]

Hideous in a good way! I love it!

[Fred piket]

fantastic! They should have build it, very impressive..

[Wulfman]

Great what if, it has the wow factor !

 

Wulfman 

[Tomcat101]

Thanks everybody I appreciate it.