A-7D Corsair II; Matchbox 1973 kit
This is one of those kits you've built 40 years ago and the destiny puts on your path again.
To make the story short, I built an ancient kit adding a modern resin cokpit and PE, used its decals plus some homeprinted and the result is here 🙂
Hope you like 🙂
Cheers,
M
This is a very ngood build, Manuel, for such an old kit. I like your camouflage painting, aftermarket cockpit detailing, and careful application of the decals.
Which of the decals did you print yourself? I make a few of my own, mostly instrument panels and ID numbers, but my inability to print white and my printer's lack of color density is always a concern.
Please tell us what we are seeing in your second photo. Also, is your dish a hand-thrown piece of pottery - my wife and I have a sizable collect of hand-thrown pottery from Seagrove, North Carolina USA, and the shape and glaze finish of some of our dishes looks much like yours, perhaps only a coincidence.
Hi @brummbaer
Thanks for your kind comments.
Regarding your questions:
Or is the second photo, the Sight system brackets? They are tiny photoetch pieces over a coin
There aren't any dishes on the photos. Can you explain, please?
Thanks again for your kind words
M
This is amazing, Manuel @magrus
It is hard to believe that all this is in 1/72.
The detailing is excellent and all this from an almost 50 years old kit.
Two thumbs up.
Thanks @Johnb, much appreciated ?
It is simply amazing, Manuel!
Had built the exact kit loooong ago: what great memories!
Thanks @fiveten!
I also built this kit about 38 years ago ? and still have it?
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Hey Spiros , I remember being on a beach on Crete in the late 80's and two of these flew over quite slowly both on a curving arc so they were leaning over toward the beach I guess so the pilots could check out the girls sunbathing !, boys will be boys as we say...
Amazing build!
Thank you very much ?
Very nice!
Thank you!
Very nice build of an oldie.
When I built mine, I thought about jamming a resin cockpit in. Yours turned out to what I hoped it would be.
I wimped out and added the pilot to cover up the inadequate cockpit.
Thanks Dan,
Yes, the cockpit was a long shot but it worked.
This is amazing Manuel , did you re-scribe it and does this kit come with the wing folds as an option or did you add that as well?
I think Christopher is referring to the Euro coin in pic 2.
Hi Neil,
I just did some riveting and rescribe what was lost when sanding. The panel lines are oversized and I should have filled them, but I wanted to build this oldie as it was (just couldn't help with the cockpit ?). The folded wings are a kit option, you just have to work them a little.
You just gave me a trip down memory lane. This kit together with a few others, is what got me into modelling. Indeed about 40 years ago (I was 9) I made this kit together with my dad, who was already a modeller.
Thanks for the memories and great finish on the kit!
Thank you Jay, this was a trip down memory lane for me to 😉 I also built this kit on my teens and there's something about this oldies...
That is a nice looking Corsair Manuel. The old Matchbox kits are not all that bad and give great build-Joy for a small outlay of Money.
Thank you! They may not be up to today standards but, as you say, give great joy. At least to me, I keep on like them.
Really brought this simple old kit to life with all that detail and TLC. Well done!
Thank you Greg, much appreciated