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The Italeri kit
#157 is a basic but good model of this little jet strike aircraft from designer
Ed Heinemann from Douglas. The Skyhawk was designed as a low cost small
jet attack fighter to be operated from US Navy carriers.
![]() Italeri A-4M box ![]() The older kits were from Airfix (which
was very rudimentary), and later on Matchbox came with a much better model.
In the past this model was made (see right). The older Hasegawa model was
also rather simple.
Nowadays there are many better A-4
kits in 1/72 scale, such as from Fujimi and new tooling kits of Hasegawa.
The Italeri
kit
(no. 157) is a nice compromise at low cost and can be made into a nice
kit for the collection.
The A-4M that appeared 1970 has some
smaller differences with older Skyhawk versions:
The Italeri
kit
of the A-4M has most of these changes incorporated.Two decal versions are
provided in the kit for US machines:
Check out next pages to see what markings I will use.
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References:
- Navy Attack, Osprey series , Francillon, 1990 - USN Carrier Air Units, Squadron, Vol.3, Kasulka - World Air Power Journal, Vol. 10 ![]() |
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