1/48 scale IAF A-10I. A FAR conversion

[JayBee]

I am at a loss for words, and somewhat humbled.
This is pure magicnificense.

[noxioux]

Hmmm.  I guess I better go find those knitting needles. . .  Awesome.

[philp]

Come on guys, it's only a model.

Besides, there are several other categories for next years Whiffies that this doesn't even fit in.

Course, he still has to finish it.  Heck, he has been working on in since 2007, maybe he won't add the weapons till next year

[nev]

Given that its carrying Rafael missiles, the only thing to say is....

Dinga-Dinga!

[Damian2]

I loved this model on ARC and I'm still loving it!!!

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[FAR148]

Thanks again everybody for the support! It makes me feel good knowing that everyone is enjoying this as must as I am. 

Oh yeah, Don't stop modeling because of me. Here's what I did this weekend.

This weekend I managed to get the weathering done on my Chazir. After decaling, I shot another coat of Future to seal and protect the decal from the wash. I like using watercolors for my washes, very easy to use as well as to clean up. I went with burnt umber, not too dark and it works well with the paint job.





On the tail, where I saved all that rivet detail, I used a black colored pencil. I just ran the pencil over the detail and all the raised detail got bumped of the paint job.





After the wash was done, I then shot another coat of future to seal the wash. Next up, pastels to dirty her up. I used a set of 12 gray tone pastels all over the panel lines and any raised detail. Next weekend I should be finishing her up, just got to shoot a flat coat and hang the weapons.








Until later,
Steven L

[Sisko]

Very very nice conversion!

I am just catching up with this thread and you certainly have inspired me to get out my old Tamiya A-10 and bash it into something unique.

Bravo on a great job!

[Ian the Kiwi Herder]

Sir, you've just raised the bar !

I just decided to cancel my subscription to "Knitting for Nerds" and get better at modelling !!

Fantastic, fantastic work.

Ian

[nev]

Yep, still looking gorgeous!

(The plane, not Ian )

[FAR148]

Well, it only took 567 days (from Sept 22, 2007 to Apr 11, 2009), but my "Chazir" is done. The most enjoyable build I have had in a long time. Enough talking, here she is... Enjoy!




































Steven L

[philp]

Yep, that will be hard to beat for Whiffie of the Year.

Course, there could be some eggselant competition in the Scrambled Egg build.

[tinlail]

That is a sweet looking plane.

Someday someone should paint a section of tarmac with a wood grain pattern....

[NARSES2]

That is a stupendous build 

[ChernayaAkula]

Absolutely awesome!  Some very cool mods. The self-printed decals also look great, especially the flying pig on the engine nacelles.   

[PanzerWulff]

Some great ideas in this thread,inspiring for ideas of what to do with my planned Sea Dog HOG.AWESOME build all the way through FAR 
"Panzer"