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While still on the subject of Skyhawks found this pic while cleaning up an old 2tb drive. Think it is an esci kit and decals I picked up at an IPMS swap meet possibly 30 years ago which would explain why I had a spare Esci decal sheet for the above build Cheers to all who replied Roger Ramjet.

Hi Rhino Cockpit was very bare. Used the seat from the Esci parts instead of the Fujimi one supplied , probably had a decal for instrument panel and I used the decal from the available Esci sheet.l.Kit did supply a joystick. Good enough for its time I suppose, cheers Roger

Hi Sharkmouth Thanks for the pics, definately showed vma-214 had an earlier scooter, vma-311 decals broke up so varnished the ones left for vma-214 and went to town on the $1.00 special. The best part of the kit was the boxtop art, the box had some additional sprues possibly from an Esci 1/48...

hating to see an old kit go to waste just because I picked it up for $1.00 years ago with no decals. Somewhere along the line i aquired a set of Esci 1/48 decals but they are for the humped back a4-m. can anybody confirm that Vma-311 or vma214 ,had any earlier a4-e machines done in the same...

some aircraft I have built recently

revell 1/32 corsair with trumpeter kit parts copied and included where they were better than the old revell kit

Revell 1/72 Cr42 falco

Helller 1/72 Buckner jungmeister. Old kit refound while cleaning out stash.

Airfix 1/72 Sopwith triplane. rigged with stretched sprue. Delightful little kit

Looking very good, have built all the Revel ships over time. I found the supplied thread too thick as the rigging progressed up each level of spars and used three different grades of haberdashery thread , each piece pulled through a block of wax to avoid fuzzieness. The black decking also...