Here are a few pics
from my recently completed Italeri A-6E in 1/72 - done out of the box. A very
nice kit with a good level of detail overall: raised cockpit detail, nice
ejection seats, nice landing gears / wheels, recessed panel lines and engraved
detail on the airframe. A wing-fold option is included in the kit, and I
believe there is an Eduard set out there that you could use to even further
enhance the wing-folds. I encountered no major fit or construction problems
during the build.
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With this kit I
wanted to really get a realistic paint job of a used Intruder, so I used several
ways to achieve that: pre-shading of panel lines, panel fading, post shading of
specific areas, panel line washes and careful drybrushing of raised detail.
Basic painting was done with enamels (Humbrol), acrylic gloss paint (Tamiya) was
used to protect the enamel base colours. Once this was dry, panel line washes
were done again with enamels (Model Master), heavily thinned with White Spirit.
The advantage of using enamels is that you can easily let this dry overnight and
still remove the excess wash - because of the acrylic layer underneath. The
colour scheme is standard two-tone grey. Final flat coat was done with Gunze
acrylic, which was the first time I used this. It gave a nice dull
finish bringing out the variations in the grey tones very subtly. Decals are
from the kit and are typical for Italeri: sharply printed, very thin and very
flexible in settling down - they worked great with a bit of setting solution. I
choose to do the Marines version as I found that the black markings suited the
greys.
A nice little kit indeed - and I
am quite happy with the way it turned out!
Regards to all fellow modellers
out there and thumbs up to the ARC team - I picked up a great deal of tips and
tools from here!
Patrick
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