OV-10 Bronco

[Green Dragon]

Got an Airfix OV-10A delivered today (still has a 25p Woolworths price sticker on it!). Weapons are the four 7.62mm M60C's in the sponsons, four Mk.82 bombs, one drop tank on the centreline and two AIM-9D Sidewinders on the wing pylons. Only 1/72nd Bronco I haven't got is the Hasegawa/Frog kit.
Did some checking on line and the Hellfires were apparently only carried by the prototype D Broncos and not fired or cleared for operations. All D versions can be fitted with the 20mm belly cannon but funding never arrived to actually do it, tests were very successful.

Paul Harrison

[DarrenP]

OV-10x may be a non starter as the design for the LARA aircraft has to be already in production....shame

[Stargazer]

OV-10x may be a non starter as the design for the LARA aircraft has to be already in production....shame

This is BAD news! 

[sideshowbob9]

OV-10x may be a non starter as the design for the LARA aircraft has to be already in production....shame

Doesn't stop us though! 

I am sorely tempted to attempt that CV-10 myself!

[B777LR]

OV-10x may be a non starter as the design for the LARA aircraft has to be already in production....shame

I read that in both Air Forces Monthly and Combat Aircraft. It has many shortcomings, such as being a paper plane, not flying, not in production. They don't even have a prototype. Embraer has the Super Tucano in service with a PMC in the US, and quite a few air forces, even been used in action against drug cartels. The AT-6 has recently flown in prototype form, but won't have combat experience.

[PR19_Kit]

I am sorely tempted to attempt that CV-10 myself!

Let us know how you do the windscreen please.

That's what's stalled my CV-10 at present, I think I'll have to plunge mould one eventually.

[chrisonord]

Hya Kit, what sort of shape is the windscreen for your cv-10? I have a few windscreens/canopies from dead aircraft, so I might have something that you could use.
Chris.

[PR19_Kit]

Chris,

A very weird shape. 

As I had to scratch the fuselage, based on 'drawings' and the FS2004 model, it's a bit like a Twin Otter, but a Twotter one won't fit at the bottom. I've tried a Sea King and a Do 228 and a few others, but I think the blow mould might be the way to go eventually. From the piccie you can see it needs to wrap around the curved nose, but also needs to be flat where it meets the roof. What's not obvious from the pic are the side windows, which are still solid styrene at the moment.

[sideshowbob9]

Aaah! I think yours is going to be a bit better than mine! Mine will be more of a psuedo-CV-10. When I saw the Do-28 mentioned, I thought "Aha! Close-enough". Particularly as my LHS had one! 

Sorry I won't be of any help.

As an aside, I intend to destroy an Alpha Jet I have to turn the remainder of the Bronco fuselage into some kind of North American/Rockwell T-45 rival. 

[chrisonord]

Chris,

A very weird shape. 

As I had to scratch the fuselage, based on 'drawings' and the FS2004 model, it's a bit like a Twin Otter, but a Twotter one won't fit at the bottom. I've tried a Sea King and a Do 228 and a few others, but I think the blow mould might be the way to go eventually. From the piccie you can see it needs to wrap around the curved nose, but also needs to be flat where it meets the roof. What's not obvious from the pic are the side windows, which are still solid styrene at the moment.

How about a CH-46 screen?? or MH-53 or a chinook one?
I have spare ones of these, if any of them are of use to you let me know.
Cheers,
Chris.

[famvburg]

   Has anyone considered this novel idea? Carve the windshield & then stretch form or vac form it?

[Mossie]

I've considered it before, then ran away screaming like a girl....

[GTX]

Speaking of the Bronco, did anyone see Erin Kewin's superb scratchbuilt (from plastic, aluminium, balsa. brass...) 1/24 Bronco in the November issue of FineScale Modeler:



Simply stunning!!!

Regards,

Greg

[Stargazer]

  Oh my! This is SERIOUS stuff... Would put to shame just about any of us lay modelers...  

[Shasper]

It wouldn't take much to get a prototype of the new OV-10 in the air, there's several A & D models being flown by various state & Fed agencies here in the States.