Revell 1/48 AD-5 Skyraider Completed

Hey Keyda. I'm off on a fun 1/1 project and have been MIA on the Forum. I do check in occasionally on your AD project. ADs have always been on the "To build" list but which one? One contender is the 1/48 Tamiya Viet Nam version.

I've seen several ADs both flying and in Museums. I'm always impressed with their size and amazing history. Every collection needs one! I always worry how I would put on that exhaust/oil leak full length black stripe that runs down the side and over the wing of all ADs. lol.

Anyway, keep up the good work!

Max

Thanks for the reference, richs26, and jeaton01!

Thanks for the history lesson rangerj!

1943Mike, yes it does make all the difference, you can tell if you look at my early builds before I learned of putty, lol!

Thanks Toshi!

Haven't been able to get to the bench lately, hubby decided to share his cold with me, and I'm still fighting it, and preparing for the holidays.  Next week will be super busy as well, but I'll try and sneak off for a few hours here and there once I start feeling better.

Will be awaiting the finish product once the prep finish is completed.  Great job in putting it together!

Your friend, Toshi

" I really hate the putty/sand/prime/repeat process!  Lol."

Yes, but of course you know that it's exactly those repetitive, mind-numbing tasks that distinguish the well finished kit from the run of the mill .

That aircraft is very impressive with it's 2700 take-off HP R-3350 engine. Keep up the fine work .. it's always a pleasure to view your builds.

Note: More learning. Maj. Fisher made a landing on a poor landing strip to pick up a fellow downed pilot and was under intense fire while doing it. He was awarded the Medal of Honor for his heroic actions. 

Added notes: The A1 could carry the bomb load of a B-17. It was designed for the Navy/Marines and predominently used by them, but the USAF found it very useful in SAR (search and rescue) work as well as other missions. I have met a few A-1 pilots and they all loved that airplane. Maj. Fisher was an USAF pilot. An A1 shot down a Mig in the Korean "police action" and also in the Viet Nam "conflict". It was a great ground support aircraft. 

Keydai didn't ask, but I have an A-1E walkaround too.

http://www.yolo.net/%7Ejeaton/Propplanes/a1e/a1e.htm

For a cockpit and external reference for an A-1E, here is Maj. Bernie Fisher's from the USAF Museum's 360 view:

http://www.nmusafvirtualtour.com/cockpits/SEAW_tour/SEAW-1.html

TYhe US Naval Aviation Museum has an A-1H.

Thanks rocker!  I just have to stop dragging my feet.  I really hate the putty/sand/prime/repeat process!  Lol.

Looks good so far - can't wait to see it with a coat of paint! 

The kit is coming along nicely. Great job.

Thanks Lawdog!

I'm going to try and get back to working on this today.  I've got to the putty and sanding part which I dislike, so I'm dragging my feet, lol.

Masked off the three seperate sections of the canopy, and started getting things ready for paint.  Hopefully I can have this in the booth this weekend.

stikpusher

Nice progress Keyda. Are you going to build this with wings folded?

Just a suggestion, but on future builds of post WWII US aircraft, you probably want to use the shade of gray that you used on the seat cushions for your main interior color, and not the lighter shade you used here. It looks too light to be Dark Gull Gray, which is more medium in shade.

 

Thanks, I haven't decided how I'm going to put the wings yet.  As for the interior color the instructions called for light ghost grey, and flat black.  That was it.  Looked to plain so I painted the cushion area of the seats to break it up a bit.  I will make a mental note for future builds to go with the darker grey.  I think I used gunship grey. 

GMorrison

 

 

stikpusher

 

 

GMorrison

Followed by the A2D-1 Skyshark, the A3D-1 and 2 Skywarrior, the A4D-1 and so on Skyhawk.

I suppose the Skyraider could be the A1D-1.

 

 

 

 

No, the 1 was always skipped for type. SBC, then SB2C for example.

 

 

 

 

OK smart guy. Who built the FD-1?

 

 

Should be Douglas by the lettering. First variant of their first fighter design submitted to the USN. D was assigned to Douglas Aircraft Company 

However, looking it up, I see that it was assigned to McDonnell (for a questionable reason I would add) on their Phantom I, which was later redesignated as the FH-1.

stikpusher

 

 

GMorrison

Followed by the A2D-1 Skyshark, the A3D-1 and 2 Skywarrior, the A4D-1 and so on Skyhawk.

I suppose the Skyraider could be the A1D-1.

 

 

 

 

No, the 1 was always skipped for type. SBC, then SB2C for example.

 

Nice progress Keyda. Are you going to build this with wings folded?

Just a suggestion, but on future builds of post WWII US aircraft, you probably want to use the shade of gray that you used on the seat cushions for your main interior color, and not the lighter shade you used here. It looks too light to be Dark Gull Gray, which is more medium in shade.

Wow, you guys are just a plethoria of information!  I guess that is my airplane history lesson for today, lol.

Finally some progress to report today.

Cockpit, not much to see here, lol.

Fuselage together.

Tail and main wing assembely together.

I have an airplane, lol.

Hopefully I can get some more done tonight after dinner.

Nice Segway with the Skyraider from the Corsair.  I’m looking forward to this build.  I did the Tamiya 1/48 kit a few years back and had a blast with it.  I’d like to see the WIP you have for this build!

Toshi

stikpusher

   

Yup, it is the old Matchbox kit. Revell has most of their molds now. And I believe that Cobra Company has been bought out recently and somebody else has their moldings as well.

Cobra Company has been bought by Mike West at Lone Star Models, and has updated his website with the new Cobra and LSM stuff.

No worries Ranger... gotta keep the gray matter active... the memory gets fuzzy far too easily indeed...

Thanks for the correction Stick. The old mind forgot.

It's cool that there is some learning going on for the FNGs and us old guys as well. 

Wiskey Tango Foxtrot!!!

GMorrison

Followed by the A2D-1 Skyshark, the A3D-1 and 2 Skywarrior, the A4D-1 and so on Skyhawk.

I suppose the Skyraider could be the A1D-1.

 

No, the 1 was always skipped for type. SBC, then SB2C for example.

Followed by the A2D-1 Skyshark, the A3D-1 and 2 Skywarrior, the A4D-1 and so on Skyhawk.

I suppose the Skyraider could be the A1D-1.

rangerj

I think that is the old Match Box kit. You can get a nice vacuum formed canopy from sqaudron for that model and Cobra has a nice resin cockpit kit for it. AD5 aka A-1E.

a historic note the "AD" stands for "Aircraft Douglas"

 

Yup, it is the old Matchbox kit. Revell has most of their molds now. And I believe that Cobra Company has been bought out recently and somebody else has their moldings as well.

Side note, the A in AD stood for attack, not Aircraft in the pre 1962 Navy Aircraft designation system. The first letter or pair of letters was the aircraft type, the next letter the aircraft manufacturing company, the first number the type put out by that of that company that would come after the aircraft type letter(s), and numbers after a dash a model variant. Any letters after the dash/number were a sub variant. 

Example F4U-1A: Fighter, 4th design, Vought Aircfraft Company (designator U), 1st variant with A sub variant (bubble canopy hood replacing birdcage canopy hood). When the final Corsair type  recatagorized as an attack aircraft type, the nomenclature went from F4U-7 to AU-1. And if an aircraft was contracted to be built by a second company, the designator would change for those aircraft. A Corsair built by Goodyear would be a FG-1 instead of a F4U. The F4F-4 Wildcats built by General Motors became FM. It’s a very specific system.

I think that is the old Match Box kit. You can get a nice vacuum formed canopy from sqaudron for that model and Cobra has a nice resin cockpit kit for it. AD5 aka A-1E.

a historic note the "AD" stands for "Aircraft Douglas"

stikpusher

Overall Sea Blue with the “polka dots” squadron markings?

 

Yep. 

Overall Sea Blue with the “polka dots” squadron markings?