Israeli A-4

Started by Bill Ferrante · 6 · 11 months ago
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    Bill Ferrante said 11 months ago:

    This is a refugee from the SOD. I originally started it as a group build back in 1995 that fell apart and it was going to be in Indonesian markings, who bought some from Israel. After finding it in a man cave reorg, it was in good shape. I still faced the same problem I had in '95: No markings. In the 25 plus years no one had released markings so I going back to the aircraft's origins. I had already modified the aircraft to have the extended tail pipe and 30mm cannons fairings in '95. Complex camouflage is underway.

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    Spiros Pendedekas said 11 months ago:

    Great save, my friend @ferrw! Looking forward to it!

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    John vd Biggelaar said 11 months ago:

    How wonderful to see it back on the bench after all those years, Bill @ferrw
    Looking forward to the camouflage pattern.

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    Bill Ferrante said 11 months ago:

    Main painting is done. Touch ups are few and the paint went on well. I used the Hataka Orange range of lacquers and they went on on well. The interesting thing was I masked the wheels 25+ years ago and while they were rock hard, came out fairly easily.

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    John vd Biggelaar said 11 months ago:

    The triple color camouflage scheme came on very nice, Bill @ferrw

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    Spiros Pendedekas said 11 months ago:

    Looks super, my friend @ferrw!
    Interesting thing with the masks!