Photos of 1:48 TA-4K Skyhawk

Why did you start your page counter at 1,000 there Ian?????

Trying to 'drum up a little business' are we?

Nice work, Ian! It's a real pleasure to see a model without grossly over-emphasized panel lines.

Nice work !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

No, the stats are purely for my own interest, (in terms of generating revenue, 1000 'views' is neither here nor there)- just to my mind 1023 looks considerably less sadder than 23...

Well if your going to have your page counter lie for you, then why have it on there at all? Or why not start it at 5,720,173,498 to match the amount Shrub spends each week on Iraq?

Whyizzit...

Monogram produces the OA-4M when there were a lot more very colorful TA-4s produced than there were OA-4MS?

Hasegawa hasn't produced a TA-4J yet to go with others in their series?

Why hasn't Hobbycraft come out with what would probably be a more affordable (for me) TA-4J to go along with the rest of THEIR series?

Don McIntyre Clarksville, TN

Market research... ;-p

Isn't it obvious? The RedRoo conversion is the only way to get a TA-4. RedRoo is obviously paying Hasegawa, Academy and Revell to NOT produce a new kit. Why? The millions of $$$ they can make - it's time to come clean, "garage manufacturers"... Maybe the IRS can be tipped off to this. I know of several resin outfits that have LOTS of my money (that Black Box guy knows who he is!) but still, the major plastic kit manufacturers don't update/revise their kits and we're coerced (through savvy marketing) to buy resin aftermarket sets. Face it - we're putty in their hands... (pun intended)

(Attempt at sarcastic humor mode off...)

To answer your question, Don, I don't know...

Frank Kranick

Oooops!! Sorry for the cross-post. Google decided to send it to all my subscribed NGs, instead of only rec.models.scale.

Don McIntyre Clarksville, TN

Why don't you just give it a freakin' rest, Mike. Consider it payment in advance for your continuung freedom if you like.

I'm hoping for a 1/48 TA-4J as well. I want to do a Marine FAC from Vietnam.

Bill Woodier sent: I'm hoping for a 1/48 TA-4J as well. I want to do a Marine FAC from Vietnam.

-- Cheers: Bill Woodier

I was thinking of doing three different schemes, the normal red-white USN/USMC trainer, a marine FAC or an Israeli TA-4. Then of course there's the DACT versions (VF-41?), and the EA-4L (I THINK that's the designation for VC-8's aircraft), and I'm sure there's others I've missed.

Don McIntyre Clarksville TN

I believe the EA-4L's were VAQ-33 and 34. There's a shot in this collection of a VAQ-33 EA-4F

You're right of course. I've got a photo of a VAQ-33 bird in my stash, but it's in a storage unit right now, so I can't get to my photo collection. 8-(

Don McIntyre Clarksville, TN

p.s. Sorry (in advance) if this get's crossposted, Google keeps sending my posts to all the newsgroups I'm subscribed to.