Author Topic: Fairchild-Republic A-10 Thunderbolt II / Warthog / Hog  (Read 72829 times)

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Re: Fairchild-Republic A-10 Thunderbolt II / Warthog / Hog
« Reply #75 on: April 16, 2013, 08:16:51 AM »
^ makes me think of ww2 marine camo
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Re: Fairchild-Republic A-10 Thunderbolt II / Warthog / Hog
« Reply #76 on: September 24, 2013, 06:01:10 AM »



The free 1/48 Monogram Warthog kit has the cockpit already started and the craftsmanship is rotten....tube glue in excess, fingerprints melted into the plastic.   If there is a way to hide the intakes and a nacelle seam which have the same heavy handed approach, the kit would be  prime candidate for something akin to this.   :)   

Edit:  Note, photo is cut and paste from GTX' work on page 2.   
« Last Edit: September 24, 2013, 07:14:19 AM by Daryl J. »
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Re: Fairchild-Republic A-10 Thunderbolt II / Warthog / Hog
« Reply #77 on: September 24, 2013, 06:03:55 AM »
The free 1/48 Monogram Warthog kit has the cockpit already started and the craftsmanship is rotten....tube glue in excess, fingerprints melted into the plastic.   If there is a way to hide the intakes and a nacelle seam which have the same heavy handed approach, the kit would be  prime candidate for something akin to this.   :)


Looks like and sounds like a job for two-part putty which would fill in the void for the cockpit and give you the necessary weight to keep the nose on the ground.  Along the way lose that little pylon for the Pave Penny pod on the right side as it would not be of much use after the human is removed from the link.  :)
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Re: Fairchild-Republic A-10 Thunderbolt II / Warthog / Hog
« Reply #79 on: September 24, 2013, 08:17:06 AM »
Comes as no surprise as it is the ugly step sister and not the cute one.  Heaven forbid they actually cut a sacred cow from the flying club like the F-22 (C)raptor which is in use in such limited numbers that it would not be missed. 
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Re: Fairchild-Republic A-10 Thunderbolt II / Warthog / Hog
« Reply #80 on: September 24, 2013, 11:12:57 AM »
http://www.brianburrell.com/pf_img/3d_prof/ffow_jets/FFOW_VEH_wc_jet_bomber_1k.jpg 

got a 1/100 revel snaptite for dirtcheap to attempt something like this.
 got two fuel tanks and two sidewinders but rest of bombs are crap.
odd scale so I guess I will have to make my own weapons.
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Re: Fairchild-Republic A-10 Thunderbolt II / Warthog / Hog
« Reply #81 on: September 28, 2013, 12:19:04 AM »




Saw this Global Hawk and had a variation on the idea:



 just paint the canopy, you could even make it a single engine and do the V tail as well (might be something a whiffer could knock out in couple days :) )


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Re: Fairchild-Republic A-10 Thunderbolt II / Warthog / Hog
« Reply #82 on: September 28, 2013, 05:28:18 AM »
Hmmm...swap cockpit/nose radome & wings between each + add gun to Global Hawk.  Result:  twin engine HALE UAV + single engined, V-tailed COIN aircraft.
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Re: Fairchild-Republic A-10 Thunderbolt II / Warthog / Hog
« Reply #83 on: October 12, 2013, 05:20:25 AM »
Random Idea:  Vietnam War continues and South Vietnamese Air Force gets A-10 as replacement for A-1
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Re: Fairchild-Republic A-10 Thunderbolt II / Warthog / Hog
« Reply #84 on: October 12, 2013, 06:01:55 AM »
Random Idea:  Vietnam War continues and South Vietnamese Air Force gets A-10 as replacement for A-1
Vietnam war continues and Australia gets A-10 (also AH-1, C-5, keeps and buys more Phantoms, KC-135, Essex in place of Melbourne, Tarawa in place of Sydney, LSM replacements, etc.) ;D

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Re: Fairchild-Republic A-10 Thunderbolt II / Warthog / Hog
« Reply #85 on: October 13, 2013, 04:35:14 PM »
how about a slightly swept wing version with more powerfull engines?

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Re: Fairchild-Republic A-10 Thunderbolt II / Warthog / Hog
« Reply #86 on: October 13, 2013, 06:53:19 PM »
Retro Thunderbolt:




Upon seeing this, I got this image of an A-10 with a piston engine (or two) in the fuselage driving some sort of mid-fuselage propeller (think Daimler-Benz "Jäger" - LINK).
Maybe even a ducted version of that, which would make the resulting thing look sort-of Heinkel Lerche-ish, only with a smaller propeller, proper wings and taking-off conventionally.

Sorta-edit-before-even-posting:

Whipped this up in a few minutes:



You'd probably have to be bit careful with this on take-off and landing, but I had these prop blades in the "in-progress" file as left-overs from the turbo-proppped A-10 on page 1 of this thread. That why it only has four blades per prop. I guess you could have a couple more (think A400M or An-70).
The exhaust stacks are from some P-51 line-art (and probably not to scale).

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Re: Fairchild-Republic A-10 Thunderbolt II / Warthog / Hog
« Reply #87 on: October 20, 2013, 04:15:18 AM »
how about a slightly swept wing version with more powerfull engines?


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Re: Fairchild-Republic A-10 Thunderbolt II / Warthog / Hog
« Reply #88 on: October 20, 2013, 04:26:07 AM »
ooohhh.....where might you be heading with this? :-*
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« Reply #89 on: December 17, 2013, 10:50:09 AM »
Apologies for the big image, but it's just in time for the holidays...
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« Reply #90 on: December 17, 2013, 04:56:10 PM »
Santa knows if you have been naughty...
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Re: Fairchild-Republic A-10 Thunderbolt II / Warthog / Hog
« Reply #91 on: January 05, 2014, 05:00:25 AM »
Found online:

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« Reply #92 on: January 05, 2014, 06:03:11 AM »
Nice!
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Re: Fairchild-Republic A-10 Thunderbolt II / Warthog / Hog
« Reply #93 on: January 06, 2014, 12:28:39 AM »
Like the A-10...

Got a 2-seater well on the way to completion....

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Re: Fairchild-Republic A-10 Thunderbolt II / Warthog / Hog
« Reply #94 on: January 06, 2014, 02:25:51 AM »
Ooooo…that Moroccan one is snazzy!
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« Reply #95 on: January 06, 2014, 04:37:01 AM »
Ooooo…that Moroccan one is snazzy!

Agreed! Nice camo :-*
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Re: Fairchild-Republic A-10 Thunderbolt II / Warthog / Hog
« Reply #96 on: January 06, 2014, 10:54:33 AM »
Apologies for the big image, but it's just in time for the holidays...



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Re: Fairchild-Republic A-10 Thunderbolt II / Warthog / Hog
« Reply #97 on: March 11, 2014, 08:53:07 PM »
I snagged a couple of the Academy 72nd A-10's for $5 per with the intent of an RCAF whif. Then someone came along and was kind enough to write  a back story for me :-)

http://blogs.ottawacitizen.com/2014/03/04/its-time-for-the-rcaf-to-buy-used-u-s-a-10-warthogs/

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Re: Fairchild-Republic A-10 Thunderbolt II / Warthog / Hog
« Reply #98 on: March 11, 2014, 10:30:31 PM »
Only comment I would make Gingie is, instead of 'instead of the F-35', get some A-10's to compliment the CF-35.

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Re: Fairchild-Republic A-10 Thunderbolt II / Warthog / Hog
« Reply #99 on: March 12, 2014, 02:25:32 AM »
So I guess those folks commenting on the article expect that in future Canada will only be fighting in the 'Stans,
and similar situations? i.e, in an environment with total air supremacy against an ill-equipped enemy?
Sorry, dudes thinking that the conflicts of the past two decades are the only model for the future is pretty silly.
Also the notion that the F-18s would be 'effective top cover' sounds like they're thinking of the A-10 = Typhoon,
CF-188 = Spitfire over Northern France circa 1944. Again an unbalanced situation.

The A-10 was effective in Iraq and Afghanistan, in an asymmetric air environment with limited SAM elements,
however they'd be dead meat against a well equipped, professional force. The assumption that 'Allied' forces
will always have air superiority is a dangerous assumption.

The A-10 was used for CAS, but was primarily designed as a tank-killer to stop the Red Hordes, and if the
balloon had gone up in Europe they probably would have been lost in large numbers trying to do that job,
just as the Sturmoviks were lost in large numbers in WWII.
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