A-4M Skyhawk, German Navy, MFG7, Sardegna 1983

[Aragorn]

Hello again

This is my German Navy Skyhawk, depicted during the last years of service, here on a weapons training mission over Sardegna/Italy in 1983, just painted in the (then) new German Navy standard livery for fighter bombers: RAL5008, RAL7012, RAL7009, markings of 7th German Navy Air Wing, permantly attached to German Marine Corps (Marineinfanterie); I got this scooter armed with 2x4 ZUNIs and 2x3 Snakeeye, as you, the bigger the bang, the better 
Kit is Matchbox' veneral 1/72 boxing from 197something, a nice little OOB build for in between; the colour scheme was in real invented in 1987 as "Norm '87", but in my world... But who do I tell?

(Regrettably my cam didn't get any brighter pics...)







Enjoy!

[Scooterman]

Enjoy indeed!  Been toying around with doing something like that and glad to see it done!   

BTW-where did you get the markings from?

[Aragorn]

Hi Scooterman

Nice to hear

I use markings from existing German plane/helo kits from Revell, where I directly purchase the decals (www-revell.de), I also use decals from German vendors TL and Peddinghaus (www.tl-modellbau.de and www.peddinghaus-decals.de, all three sites can be switched to English). Revell takes the longest, but is the cheapest.
Next to this I always try to get older kits with German navy markings on fairs or on the web.

[kerick]

You do great work and have a great imagination. Keep it coming!

[Captain Canada]

That's a little beauty to be sure ! Nice work...love the camo and markings. And the weapons load is impressive as well !

[McColm]

Great build.

[Army of One]

Great build of an old kit.........love the cam scheme.......great choice of weapons as well.......

[nönöbär]

 

Well, my version of the Luftwaffe A4 was the on in the post-carrier era:


It's the same Matchbox kit you used. A carrier verion of it will be build next.

Luftwaffe A4:
http://www.whatifmodelers.com/index.php/topic,37658

[Aragorn]

Hi Nönöbär

Looks also good, so you're also in alternative German Airpower? I got lots more in the pipeline, mainly Marineflieger, but the time, the time...

[nönöbär]

I know the time problem....

So some other Luftwaffe what-ifs I made are:

Northrop F5
http://www.whatifmodelers.com/index.php/topic,35386.msg564136.html#msg564136

Mirage F1
http://www.whatifmodelers.com/index.php/topic,37148.msg601025.html#msg601025

[DogfighterZen]

The A-4 looks really good in that camo! Nice Work!

[Captain Canada]

I knew she looked familiar, but it's almost like you guys were talking during the builds !