Here’s the Trumpeter A10-A Thunderbolt, AKA The Warthog (because of all the bumps over it’s surface). My favourite plane, I had to have a go at the big beast Trumpeter make. It’s 1/32 scale, comes with metal parts, clear plastic parts and resin parts. It’s made so you can expose certain areas but I went for a normal build before my sanity wore out. It was a real labour making this. Mostly because the box and parts took up nearly the whole extended dining table, and I found it quite a hassle to work on something this big, something I did’nt forsee when I started it months ago. When finished though and hung on the wall (yes, that’s where I put planes-I dont understand people who hang them from the ceiling so you only see the underneath) it does look an impressive monster. Problems along the way: The decals- I had to put them on, watch them break up, and then paint the remainder in. Weight-I put quite a bit of weight in the nose but it still was tail heavy, which led to some breakages and fixings. Painting: My normal spray booth was really small and only just accomadated this beast, and it ate the paint up like nobody’s business!
Nice job on the big beast. Thanks for sharing.
Regards, Rick