SPA Modeler

This will be fun to follow.

Carlos' pic reminds me of a story my mother told me that she witnessed some time back.

At one time a squadron of A-10's was transferred to Eglin AFB in Florida for training. Someone at the base got the idea to contact as many of the citizens of Niceville/Valparaiso who had homes on the water and boats on their docks. They arranged for the people to take their boats out on the bayou. The A-10's would make mock firing runs on the boast while the boaters did their utmost to evade them. The Boaters had a blast avoiding the A-10's and the A-0 pilots were stunned at how hard it was to 'hit' such moving targets. That was a most productive and eye-opening training mission for them.

Bring it on Stuart!

Cool story Mark!

BlackSheep214 wrote: ↑Thu Sep 04, 2025 8:48 pm

Y'all are going to get in trouble for posting explicit photos!!

All I can say is....

That would be a great decal on a 1/48 or 1/32 scale A-10 kit.

So I picked up a copy of Scale Aircraft Modeler yesterday, which had a profile article on the A-10. The interesting thing was that the Italeri kit was considered THE kit of the A-10 in 1/72 until the Great Wall hobby kit came out. funny, I had no idea.

The other interesting thing was the full colour profiles including one for this... Yes I have decals on order. I love this JAWS scheme, ever since I saw it on the boxart onthe AIrfix kit.



Cheers!

I'm seeing spots.

LyleW wrote: ↑Wed Sep 10, 2025 6:47 amI'm seeing spots.

This is the boxart I remember as a kit - always loved this scheme. (I'd like to think I could do a better job than that!)

I would not dare to try that right now. I am a bit surprised that Airfix did not get someone to spray this with an a/b. Perhaps they were modelling it for "everyman".