Does anyone have any experience of the larger scale models of the A10-A?
I believe there is a 1/32 Trumpeter and a 1/32 or 1/48 Tamiya?
Has anyone made or seen these kits?
Just intrested in the quality as I would like to have a go at one of these big beasts.
FarawayPictures;
well the best and only in 1/32 is the Trumpeter, in 1/48 it’ll be the Revellograms, it’s a little old but it’s far better then the Tamiya’s or Esci’s (now Italeri’s and old AMT’s), in 1/72 it’ll be Hasegawa’s, then maybe the Academy’s or Monograms,
to get back to the Trumpeter’s kit it’s the most current A-10A/OA-10A, it has the LASTE, EGI, LARS, and current RAW Antenna’s, the Revellograms is second but is missing the LASTE, LARS & EGI mods but will take a little time to update them though, I’ve built all of the 1/48 A-10’s kits offered out there (I’ve worked them for over 4 years & 2 Wars) the Tamiya’s and the rest are based on the prototype aircraft and not the planes in inventory so they are way behind the times on this subject
Trumpeter does also the 2 seater A-10NAWS.
Many thanks for the advice. I’m planning for March to be my A10-A month 
Trumpeter, here I come 
I am somewhat puzzled as to why Trumpeter spent the time and effort to make a model of the 2 seat A-10 N/AWS. Republic only made one prototype/test aircraft real early in the A-10 program. It never went into production. I guess it would be a good subject for the “what if” guys.
Darwin, O.F. [alien]
Yardbird,
Yep, I’m building the N/AW for the “What if” build right now. Excellent kit overall. Its gonna look really cool in Army paint with Hellfires, rockets and Mavericks under the wings!
FarawayPictures,
If you can, pick up the Trumpeter kit on ebay. You’ll most likely save about $40 on the kit price and only have to pay about $10 in shipping. It really is a phenomenal kit. Metal landing gear, resin engines, just unbelieveable detail. Only issue is the cockpit, which is sparse and has decals for the main control panels. Got a lot of scratchbuilding ahead of me for that rear tub!
I’ve been working on a 1/48 Monogram A-10A. Fit isn’t so bad, worst part I’ve run across so far is this seam in the intakes… but it’s just inside the intake lip. Things I’m doing to this kit include repositioning the elevators, opening up vents, adding a few other ‘minor’ details. I’ll post pics of that build soon. I’ve got a second Monogram A-10A in the pile, and I’m going to do more extensive stuff to it, to include lowering the flaps, repositioning all the flight controls, etc. I didn’t have access to an A-10 when I started the first kit; and being based at Davis-Monthan AFB has it’s advantages for A-10 stuff…[:-^] (Though I must say that I just retired from the Air Force…[BH] )
As for the N/AW A-10A, I didn’t know anyone but Falcon made a kit or conversion set for the bird. I always thought it was a cool aircraft, even if only one was built. Too bad the Air Force decided not to put the two seater in production. As for that conversion kit… ahhh… [censored] ! Well, it’s a vac kit conversion of an injection kit; and even then it’s only half a fuselage, and the tails. I got flustered with it, and put it in hibernation.
I keep piling up more and more products put out by Eduard specifically for the Revell/Italeri A-10A in 1/72. I want to eventually build a Warthog (can’t believe I never have) but it won’t be in that scale and it wouldn’t be that brand. So I have masks, several PE frets, including one just for the weapons which includes like of fins as well as spacing jigs for the fins, and other related stuff, and then the new color frets for it. If anybody out there…well, send me an e-mail.
As for the N/AW version, it would have been nice if they’d gone ahead and built 50 or 60 of them, because I can think of two recent wars where they would have made ideal FAC birds, as the single seaters have. But FAC’s can always function better with a second set of eyes stuck to a pair of binoculars. (Or are binoculars obsolete for the modern FAC?)
TOM
sharkskin;
with the new SNIPER & LITENING II pods out, there really isn’t a need for the second set of eyes, the pods FLIR & Thermal sensing systems they could pick up the downed pilot or air crew as well as for the enemy troopers and forward the informaiton to a local JSTARS or CENTCOM itself to relay the information for further instructions
The only 1/48 kit worth biulding is the Monogram kit. I just completed my 1/48 Tamiya kit and I needed a cement truck for all the putty it took. I added a Legends resin cock pit that looks great and used Eduard photoetche for more detail. If I were to build another I definatly would build the 1/32 Trumpeter. It realy is suppose ti be the best.
I don’t no why Trumpeter does this kit. But it’s a very good idea!! It’s an original plane.
The question I ask myself is: why in 1/32??? I think in 1/48 the model should be cheaper and smaller and I could buy one? But it is not the case[BH]
That Tamiya kit was, hard to believe but true, a real masterpiece of its time, but it is now over twenty years old. It, their Sea Harrier and F-15A were priced at $20 in about 1982 and considered state of the art and quite expensive. Boy I feel old. It seems as though the state of the art in fact really took off right after that, putting us where we are today. For example, expecting engraved panel lines as the norm. I can’t remember the last kit that had raised ones, but the last one I remember being released in my scale was the Monogram F-102 and the first Monogram kit to have engraved lines being the Su-25 Frogfoot. Does that Frogfoot ever get rereleased? I remember it being a pretty nice kit back in '89 or 90 when it came out, about the same year as the Deuce.
TOM
I have put one Trumpeter A-10 together and have another waiting. I think that it is a good kit but a little weak when it comes gun and the cockpit. I have an aftermarket cockpit detail set for the next one. Plenty of stores, good instructions now if I can find a decal sheet for the 110th Fighter out of Battle Creek Mich. Have fun and be ready for about an acre of surface to paint. You don’t realize how big the sucker is until you start painting.
MKelley;
I’ve got some pix of an A-10 from Battle Creek in Iraq that you might like
I built a classic Academy (where academy comes from is Korea if i’m correct, and that’s where I’m from) 1/32 scale A-10 and the only problem was the minor fit problem on the landing gear wells.