1:48 Douglas A-4M Skyhawk mod. 1975

The Skyhawk A-4M as it was in 1975, photo-etch in 1:48

The set brings together photo-etched parts for the attack machine in its form from the middle of the 1970s. The year in the designation has a practical point: it distinguishes the set from the package made for an earlier state of the same aircraft.

A small attack aircraft of the Marine Corps

The Skyhawk was designed by a team in the 1950s deliberately as a small and simple carrier bomber that would fit onto a carrier's elevator without folding its wing. The last single-seat version then stayed in service for decades, and machines from the second half of the 1970s differed from the older examples above all in equipment, which was added step by step while in use. They were deployed mainly from land bases in close support of infantry and in advanced training.

Work tips

Test the bent components dry in place first and only then reach for the glue, because correcting a set joint costs more time than a minute of testing. Mask the pre-printed faces when spraying their surroundings. Under a flat final coat it pays to bring out the engraved lines with thinned paint, and the small metal parts will stay legible in the process.

Whom the package will serve

• builders of jet equipment of the 1970s
• modelers who are fitting out a cockpit and bays
• collectors of American attack aircraft
• those who build an exact period configuration

Without a base kit you will not use the set, and it is sold separately.