Douglas A-1 Skyraider
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Douglas A-1H Skyraider
The Douglas Skyraider, affectionately known as the Spad or flying dump truck is the Tamiya 1/48 kit i purchased in 2001 if i recall correctly. I started building in 2002 but i was defeated by the four color cowling, i could not get the [...]
Trumpeter A-1J Skyraider 1/32
Finally finished this beauty - really nice kit oob, especially the duplex cyclone engine.
Painted with Mr. Hobby acrylics and weathered with oils and AK products.
Coments and critics welcome as always .
AD-5 (A-1E) 1/48 Tamiya+Matchbox
Hi All,
I would like to present my latest completion: the Big Face Spad. AD-5 (A-1E). The build were kitbashed from the infamous Tamiya A-1 Skyraider and Matchbox vintage AD-5. There are 1/32 resin conversion set from Fisher Model for [...]
Moldy oldie,IMC 1/72 A-1 Skyraider.
Another moldy oldie, This is from IMC'S battle damage series of the 1970's. Done in South Vietnam AF scheme, I wanted it to still be able to fly so I only used the damaged stabilizer. Got the kit off of the net. I used the kits decals, [...]
Getting Skyraiders right
One of the big problems for modelers building A-1 Skyraiders is that most of the time the model is under-weathered. A friend of mine who flew Skyraiders in Vietnam once told me that the major problem he had with most of the Skyraider [...]
1/48 Tamiya A-1H Skyraider VA-152 Black Spades
Just finished her today. Painted with MRP paints. Wash and stains was the Mig products, Aeromaster decals . Enjoy
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A-1H Details: ‘Lieutenant America’
I shot these pics of a restored A-1H, "Lieutenant America", at Lonesome Pine Regional Airport in Wise County, Va., back in 2011.For a restoration, this Skyraider compares well to photos from Wayne Mutza's book on A-1's in [...]
A 38A Skyraider
This is my rendition of a Skyraider in the use of the Royal Swedish Air Force if the Sandy CSAR concept had been brought to the temperate and sub-arctic forests and mountains of the Scandinavian peninsula from the steaming jungles of [...]
S 38B Skyraider
By 1972 a number of the remaining Skyraiders in the Royal Swedish Air Force inventory were re-designated from A (attack) to S (spaning) for the new role as search and rescue aircraft to operate over the Baltic sea and the West coast. A [...]
FAA Skyraider Mk.1 & Tow Tractor.
This is a What-if I made a couple of years ago in the markings of a Royal Navy, Fleet Air Arm Skyraider.
The Royal Navy had in fact, operated the AD-4W early warning Skyraider, designated AEW.1 and flown by 849 Naval Air Squadron during [...]