1:72 A-4 Skyhawk Undercarriage Bays Mask Hobby Boss

The Skyhawk 1:72: covering the bays for the Hobby Boss model

The set bounds the openings of the space for the retracted landing gear on the underside of a seventy-second scale Douglas A-4. The shapes are calculated for the kit of the Hobby Boss brand, and because similar items differ precisely in the target model, it is stated right at the opening. Without a kit obtained separately you will not use the set; on its own it does not make an aircraft.

Half a century in service

The Skyhawk managed the move from the decks of aircraft carriers to the air forces of a number of states and survived in service with many of them longer than its creators expected. During the fighting in Southeast Asia it carried bomb and rocket armament and became the workhorse of the attack squadrons. The Israeli Air Force went through several conflicts with it and modified the machines its own way, and Argentine examples went down in history for their deployment over the South Atlantic. The US Navy used lightened examples as adversaries in air combat training, where their small dimensions gave them the advantage of being hard to see. The last training examples left service only after the year two thousand.

Practical tips for painting

Turn to the inner surfaces first, then close them up and take on the outer spraying. If you are planning wear and scuffed areas, do them only after the covering is off, otherwise you lose the clean edge. It also pays to try the adhesion in an inconspicuous place before you start work on a finished surface.

It will be appreciated above all by

• Owners of the seventy-second scale kit of the brand mentioned
• Modelers with an interest in export users of American attack aircraft
• Builders who work with an airbrush and want an accurate edge
• Those who build several examples of the same type and need a uniform result