For the modeler: The Porsche 962C is a great kit from Tamiya. It is highly detailed. It has a one piece body with the glass installed. Being a one piece body there is no engine to assemble. The chassis has an eight piece independent rear suspension with disc brakes. The front is a five piece independent suspension with steerable wheels. The front wheels are one-piece design with a pin that slides into the front hub. The rear wheels are also one piece and they have a metal pin that holds it into the rear hub. The tires are a soft rubber with no names on them. Tamiya supplies a rub on decal for the lettering.
The body is very good no sink marks to fill. It comes with templates for covering up the body for the red and yellow. They also cover the windows and headlights. Before painting I use masking tape to cover the inside of the glass. You spray the body yellow first. Then put the paint covers on by the letters that’s on them with the instructions. Then you can go ahead and spray the red. The black and the white are all decals. The hardest part was getting the black decal to lay down around the windshield. There are enough decals to do this car with three different numbers. The interior is all race car; not a lot of comfort, one seat with nice seat belt decals, Detail is very good on the dash. Tamiya gives you all the numbers for painting and decal placement.
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The Douglas Skyraider was developed toward the end of World War II to fulfill a US Naval requirement for a carrier-based, single-seat, long-range, high performance dive/torpedo bomber, as a follow up to the Curtiss SB2C Helldiver and Grumman TBF Avenger. The first prototype Skyraider (the XBT2D-1) made its maiden flight on March 18th, 1945. The Skyraider was developed too late to see action in World War II, but became the mainstay of U.S. Naval carrier and USMC aviation during the Korean War (1950-1953). Powered by a Wright R-3350-26WA radial engine producing 2,800 hp, the Skyraider could carry up to 8,000 lbs of weapons on 15 hard points for up to 10 hours. Its weapons load and flight time far surpassed and of the newer jet aircraft available at the time.
The Skyraider continued in service during the Vietnam War and U.S. Navy Skyraiders shot down two North Vietnamese Air Force (NVAF) Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-17 jet fighters: one on 20 June 1965 and one on 9 October 1966. As they were released from Navy service, Skyraiders were introduced into the South Vietnamese Air Force (VNAF). They were also used by the USAF to perform one of the Skyraider’s most famous roles: the “Sandy” helicopter escort on combat rescues. USAF Major Bernard F. Fisher piloted an A-1E on the 10 March 1966 mission for which he was awarded the Medal of Honor for rescuing Major “Jump” Myers.  USAF Colonel William A. Jones, III piloted an A-1H on the 1 September 1968 mission for which he was awarded the Medal of Honor. In that mission, despite damage to his aircraft and suffering serious burns, he returned to his base and reported the position of a downed US airman.
For the modeler: Revell’s model box top represents an AD-6 Skyraider, but the decal & painting guide is for an AD-4E or an A-1H. The model consists of 75 parts, 72 molded in grey plastic and three molded in clear plastic (photo 004). The molds date to 1980 and almost every part shows some flash. This is not an excessive problem but does require a good deal of clean up before opening the glue bottle. The decal sheet includes decals for two aircraft. The first is an AD-4E of the Naval Ordinance Test Station at China Lake California in overall white and International Orange. The second aircraft is an A-1H of the 1st Fighter Squadron of the South Vietnamese Air Force, Squadron Commanders aircraft. The A-1H with its 3-tone camouflage scheme and black and yellow checkerboard fuselage stripe was much more interesting to me and so I chose to build that aircraft. This basic but aged kit makes a great display subject if you have the right information to perfect your build. Adding realism to the guns and exhaust; dealing with excess flash and sinks; cockpit detailing paint selection and highlighting with a silver pencil; glass tints; seam filling; ejection pin locations; cowling modifications for fit; camouflage paint selection and methods; masking techniques; weaponry color selections; prop detailing; canopy detailing with a liquid mask; decal preparation and application; use of Future for sealing; tail wheel height considerations are all fully examined in this 12 page, full-color Step-by-Step review.
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The 427 Shelby Cobra certainly is a “Dream Ride†as this Revell Series release implies! These cars were originally built for racing and had one thing in mind; getting the rubber to the road. The original Cobra had no creature comforts: no radio, no AC and in most cases no heater or even heat shielding. It was all about power. An equivalent today would be stripping down a Pontiac Solstice and cramming a 400 horsepower Camaro engine into it.
For the modeler: This is old tooling and the molds are showing there age so You’ll have a little more flash removal than normal but the good news is that this kit has the 289 Cobra style “flat†hood and the chrome spoke wheels. Meaning this is more than likely a reissue of Monogram kit #2798. Which is a welcome change [to me] from the racing style wheels and “scooped†hood of the most recent version. Tool selection; seam preparation; mold line identification; engine color selection; corrected valve cover location; chassis color selection; assembly sequence modifications; interior color selection; use of black washes; instruction errors; decal preparation and application; are all fully examined in this 7 page, full-color Step-by-Step review.
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The body is very good no sink marks to fill. It comes with templates for covering up the body for the red and yellow. They also cover the windows and headlights. Before painting I use masking tape to cover the inside of the glass. You spray the body yellow first. Then put the paint covers on by the letters that’s on them with the instructions. Then you can go ahead and spray the red. The black and the white are all decals. The hardest part was getting the black decal to lay down around the windshield. There are enough decals to do this car with three different numbers. The interior is all race car; not a lot of comfort, one seat with nice seat belt decals, Detail is very good on the dash. Tamiya gives you all the numbers for painting and decal placement.
