[Phantom Phan1200]

HA1305 1/72 A-10 Warthog USAF 81st TFW, 511th TFS, Brentwaters AFB, England.
Pics are from the distributor.

[Raven]

Does this one have the corrected horizontal stabilizer?

[hawkonevoodoo]

Originally Posted by Raven

Does this one have the corrected horizontal stabilizer?

This is the 5th release and that problem was fixed after the fist 2.

[Spinnaker]

Thanks for the pics gerry, it looks great. I've held off buying an A-10 up till now, but this one is currently on the way to my hanger. really looking forward to seeing it "in metal".

[lanslide]

I just ordered this one too - it's irresistible!

[Nimrod48]

A must for my collection as Bentwaters was involved in Britains most famous UFO incident http://ufos.about.com/od/ufocrashes/p/rendlesham.htm the local BBC late night news reported the incident with a promise of continual updates in future bulletins but a security blanket was thrown over the whole thing by Margaret Thatcher "you cant tell the people" she said.
A history of the base is available on CD ROM http://www.ghaynes.supanet.com/Intro.html the link leads to a site named Bentwaters: The Living Years.

[Hornchurch]

Originally Posted by Phantom Phan1200

HA1305 1/72 A-10 Warthog USAF 81st TFW, 511th TFS, Brentwaters AFB, England.
Pics are from the distributor.

Very nice looking model, representing the now (sadly) disused Suffolk 'Twin-Bases' - a victim of Post 'Cold-War' era cutbacks

I've included some shots I took during some of my visits, Airshows that used to abound in East-Anglia that sadly are no more

You'll notice the Grey on the 'Real-Deal' is considerably darker -

That gorgeous 'European 1' Scheme has to be the best worn by A.10's (instead of the plain Grey nowadays)

The 35mm SLR pix look grainy by today's standards (& no, they're not great shots, I agree) but I've included 'em for 'content'

One taken in Aug '88........ another in June '89........ the last two, in Aug '92

[hworth18]

Great pics there Phantomphan, your photography skills are just getting better and better..

Hey Hawk.. I thought these were supposed to have pilots included??

[zed550]

i did email hawk about the grey on playtime as i thought HM had used gunship grey instead of the correct EURO 1 grey which is the same shade that century used on the two VF-154 jets.
its still a nice release but would be even better with a more correct weapons loadout,shame that HM supplied the weapons load from the kit it is based on.

[hawkonevoodoo]

Originally Posted by zed550

i did email hawk about the grey on playtime as i thought HM had used gunship grey instead of the correct EURO 1 grey which is the same shade that century used on the two VF-154 jets.
its still a nice release but would be even better with a more correct weapons loadout,shame that HM supplied the weapons load from the kit it is based on.

You did and I did but I think it was too late in the process to stop.

I found a couple of sites with up to date weapons loads and pictures and sent them to Hobby Master so hopefully these should start to show up on future models.