This
is the Italeri 1/48 Scale A-4E Skyhawk depicted as a Royal Australian Navy A-4G
in the very cool looking 2 tone camouflage worn until their retirement from the
fleet air arm in the early 1980's...
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images below to see larger images
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It's
depicted with a load of 2 AIM-9's, underwing fuel tanks - and a motherload of
iron dumb bombs underneath... I don't know if its an entirely realistic RAN
loadout, but I'm not really a rivet counter :-D (It looks great - and I'm sure
the mighty Scooter could do it!)
This particular
airframe soldiered on in the RNZAF as an upgraded A-4K "Kahu", and was
tragically lost with its pilot, SQNLDR Murray Neilson whilst performing
aerobatics at Nowra, NSW in 2001.
Happy modelling from
Australia!
Aaron
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