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Published: 2012-04-25 04:43:04 +0000 UTC; Views: 8024; Favourites: 146; Downloads: 379
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A bit more fun with Bazze's A-4 Skyhawk model, doing Ye Olde Boxart presentation. DAZ Studio render.Related content
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An A-4 in US markings carrying French Magic R.350 missiles (I think R.350)?
Now, this is interesting.
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Yeah, just went with what the model featured on this one....
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the scooter is one of my fave 5 airplanes. nicely done, even if we had to steal some french missiles for the mission...
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You're very welcome!
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Purty, glad to see some more aviation stuff from you. Judging from the markings, this is a Nam era A-4? Usually thought they did strategic bombing etc and didn't carry offensive armament...maybe I watched too many docs where the Corsairs and Phantoms got all the dogfighting glory.
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Aye - this is 'Nam era. As mentioned above my load out options were pretty fixed unless I wanted to go pirating other models... which I may yet do at some future date
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Ah read ya Lima Charlie. A-4 wiki says them Skyhawks sometimes carried Sidewinders for defensive purposes in Nam so itsa all good...
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Thanks. I think the thing really needs a specualar map... better bump map, and weathering... to sell itself for closeups, but at least I feel like I got a good lighting solution on this one. Your ex-Navy too, if I recall??
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Yup Navy for 11 years and an Aircraft Carrier was my first home afloat but we used the F-18 Hornets and A-6 Avengers as primary craft then.
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I loved the A6.... such an ugly beast. So dragonfly-like.
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Whoooeeee!!! Yeah baby!!! 
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And your a Navy guy - yes?
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Oh yes. Ex now though. Although I guess to a degree I can rightfully now say, once Navy, Always Navy. I know that generally applies to the Marine Corps, but I think it can apply to all the services. As for me being Navy...yep..24 years worth. And I hadn't planned to beyond my initial 4 originally. Isn't it funny how things work out?
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Looks great! The only issue I see is the payload, both aircraft appear to be carrying a load of Matra R.550 Magic missiles, which would not be appropriate for an USN aircraft.
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Yeah, the ordnance is... well, not really configurable. If i was gonna do this up proper I'd probably have to steal some weapons off another model and parent 'em in. Something for the future!
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Looks like I picked the wrong day to stop sniffing glue...
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A classic view of the Skyhawk. And just enough room for the model company's logo!
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And for the price sticker when I try to sell off my extra kit at an IPMS show
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Snappy! (or gluey, depending on your modeling skill level 
(The car nut in me wants that belly tank!)
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And what would your car nut self want with a big-ass belly tank???
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Why, to make a belly-tank Lakester, of course!! [link] Classic streamliner race car for places like Bonneville - been doing it since WWII
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OOooooooo! I don't recall seeing one before. NEATO! I want one as my commuting vehicle!...
... though after that last speeding ticket, three weeks ago, you'd think I'd learned my lesson?
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<--- Aerospace engineer/nerd time: the skin on the leading edges of the wings don't really hold up this close at this angle, but that's mostly because I've wandered around and around a static display A-4 they've got aboard USS Midway (she's been turned into a museum). I wouldn't be opposed to going again and taking lots of pictures for skin improvements if anyone's interested.
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Hey, don't hold back your crits, man! It's all appreciated! I agree that the model has some shortcomings when it comes to close-up work... but it IS a freebie
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I don't know which one's aboard Midway but I'll scare up the pictures I've already taken and see what the plane's done up as if you'd like.
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Well, I can only find one of me right in front of an A-4, which is great for scale but otherwise not so grand. Oh well, sounds like an excuse to visit Midway again...
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Aw, c'mon... you don't need an excuse!
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I have a strong genetic predisposition towards airplane addiction. I need an excuse or else I'd be watching airplanes all day every day.
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Ditto. When it comes to aircraft, I'm definitely my father's son.
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Are you talking about the rendering of the leading edge slats and sometimes shiny and irregular texture of the skin? Arcass cranks out beautiful works but usually isn't usually a stickler for absolute anal-level gritty realism. His strength is outputting more tasty-looking work in a month than most of us have in years...
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LOL! That's me! "Art by the pound!"
Thanks. You're right in that most of what I do is more "digital doodle" than "refined art". Just something to unwind from a day of tending everyone ELSE'S art. But trust me, I can get plenty anal about things when the job demands it. I just don't usually work to that level 75% of the time. DA is largely a sort of "digital sketchbook" for me
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That's good to hear then brother. Yeah, I've been there...going cross-eyed for other's glory and then making something COMPLETELY different for yourself. Similar idea of when Goya was a Royal painter making boring portraits of inbred nobles only to paint ogres devouring their children at night, haha!
You got a blog with some other work like Steve Berg or something?
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Nope. This is my bloggiest thing out there
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Well, yeah. I'm not blaming him or anything.
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Course not! Wasn't meant to be a quibble, we need folks like yourself to help keep it real.
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Very cool, I'd definitely buy one. Had the pleasure of chatting with Roy Cross a couple of years ago, he was the main Airfix box artist for many decades, terrific artist and a true gentleman.
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When you actually meet talent like that, what we do feels a bit like cheating, eh?
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Yeah....probably vintage '79, I'm guessing
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Oh Ho Ho Hboooo this is Swweeta!!
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