DONE@p.6 +++ 1:72 YA-14A "Squatina" prototype, a stealthy USAF A-10 replacement

[Doug K]

Brilliant. Someone call the Pentagon

[sandiego89]

Ohh, turned out fantastic, I was a little worried about the paint scheme during the build, but you really pulled it off!

And really like the pictures over Edward Air Force Base!  Nice touch. 

[Snowtrooper]

I'm pretty sure that if a few pixelated and/or grainy photos of this model were distributed on the net without proper context, pretty soon someone would claim having seen one flying near Area 51.

[chrisonord]

Absolutely amazing Dizzy  if a kit was brought out of this I would definitely buy several

[buzzbomb]

Wonderful stuff.
The shape is great but for me, the paint work nails it 

[NARSES2]

I'm pretty sure that if a few pixelated and/or grainy photos of this model were distributed on the net without proper context, pretty soon someone would claim having seen one flying near Area 51.

Knowing the sites that "borrow" Dizzie's work without accreditation I wouldn't be surprised if that happens over the next couple of months 

[Old Wombat]

Very good job, Dizzy!

[Dizzyfugu]

Thanks a lot, everyone! 

[TomZ]

Great model, very believable.

Also great photography!

TomZ

[sideshowbob9]

Wow! I like it.

[nighthunter]

What Thomas failed to mention is that, with the cancellation of the YA-14 project in 2016, Aerosystems was financially forced into a merger with Wayne Enterprises, and the 5 YA-14 prototypes mysteriously disappeared. Some people claim they've seen one flying over Gotham, but with the mental health crisis that Gotham faces after everything that has happened, those claims have been dismissed. When one of the airframes was photographed at the Wayne family private airfield in 2018, Bruce Wayne stated that, yes, he had the airframe and it was one of the static test airframes, and that he was having it restored for the US Air Force Museum in their prototype aircraft wing.

[Dizzyfugu]

 

[Tophe]

15,000 lb (6,800 kg).

1:72 M7 Aerosystems YA-14A "Squatina", 2nd prototype (s/n 11-50748) for the United States of America Air Force (USAF), during DT&E (Demonstration Testing and Evaluation) trials, 2016 (Whif/kitbashing) by dizzyfugu, on Flickr

Dizzyfugu, is the beautiful background of this picture a photo you made yourself? I know you are very sensitive/angry about the ones using your pictures (on other sites) without quoting your name, but it would be surprising that you do the same yourself to the background photographers... Please reassure us.

[Dizzyfugu]

No (or: yes), this is not "my" picture (as most backgrounds, even though I somtimes make them by myself).

[Tophe]

I understand. I had the same problem with 95% clouds pictures I have used in my "Forked Ghosts" (free) books. But I feel guilty, somehow.