A cute little tadpole

[Paulw]

I shelved the Widow for a bit because I do not want to rush a $140.00 kit. For the past couple of weeks I really haven't been doing anything except house work,litter box duty and laundry not to mention sitting on my Keister doing absolutely zilch.

I pulled this one out today and thought I would attempt to do this for this campaign. Actually I am kind of pumped about the whole kit. It is the Hobby Boss 1/48 A-6E Tram. I assume it is the scaled down version of Trumpeters 32 scale Intruder. I went through it and it knocks the Kinetic offering out of the park. The detail is excellent and even the ip is sharply detailed but it is still too small for me to see well even with my visor to do any painting.

Here are the standard start pics.

I do hope you can see the time stamp on the phone. I am needing a better lens for my camera.

 

[SA Dave]

Thats a very cool one Paul

 

[moon puppy]

Nice pick!

 

[ij001]

Ha !!, just been looking at the available decals for Intruders over at Hannants. Not got a kit, yet just thinking about a posible project for next year.

Looking forward to seeing what you do with yours, Paul.

Ian.

 

[razordws]

Interesting!

 

[Skinny_Mike]

 

[lupanzer]

Great!!!...

Luiz.

 

[Swordsman]

Great choice Paul ... always loved the intruder ... What kind of Visors do you use ??? I thought mine was glass lens but I'm starting to think they are acrylic ...

 

[Novorus]

Nice

 

[helios]

I'll be watching this with interest. Love this bird. VA-95 was our sister squadron on the WESTPAC95 (and earlier) deployment. They were decommed after we got back to the rock, one of the last operational A-6E outfits. I've got a 1/72 Italeri kit (1/72 Hasegawa is junk out of the box) and some VA-95 decals to do an Operation Praying Mantis build.

I was eyeballing that kit earlier this week...but know absolutely nothing about Hobby Boss. But your initial impressions are encouraging.

 

[Paulw]

I went a did some pit work, It's not the greatest but hey, I'm old, half blind in one eye and can't hear out of the other. The seat belts would not co-operate so Ill have to make some later. then Ill flat coat after some touch ups.

Thanks for watching.

 

[SA Dave]

Great pit mate

 

[Sherman 18]

Great start on a cool subject

 

[moon puppy]

Nice!

 

[Skinny_Mike]

Nice looking cockpit!

 

[Paulw]

since the last report I finished the nose gear and the radar compartment which needs more attention to detail.
I sewed up the fuse and now I need to fill some small gaps.

 

[Hawkwrench]

Nice job on the Intruder so far. Love that desert tan scheme!

Tim

 

[moon puppy]

 

[Paulw]

Hello Y'all. I had a chance to do quite a bit more to the tadpole today. filled in some seams and assembled the inner wings. I am really surprised how well things went together. I also slid them in place for a dry fit and found out that it isn't so easy to get them out again so I just left them alone. In order to get the camo just right I think I can use the color plate and size it up to 48 scale and make a mask from that.

 

[moon puppy]

You know for 1:48 it still looks big.