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Re: Building the A10 Thunderbolt "Warthog"
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lugnet.build, lugnet.general
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Wed, 12 Jul 2000 16:47:50 GMT
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In lugnet.build, Marc Cook writes:
> In lugnet.build, Drew Lawrence writes:
> >
> > > True, but many a-10 are gray.
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> > Ah..... just the prototypes, and the pre-production models - A-10's that have
> > seen some USAF service are almost always in a camoflauge of some sort.
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> > ~Drew "Luke" Lawrence
> > ~Another Lego Military Fan
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> That makes sense -- or training planes are gray.
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> - Marc
I live near Davis-Monthan Air Force Base in Tucson, Arizona. They fly A-10
Warthogs and their primary mission is to train new pilots. The paint scheme
is a uniform light gray (called Ghost Gray I think) with low-vis markings. I
bet light gray bricks would be a close match. The three tone dark green
camouflage used in Europe would be very difficult (impossible?) to reproduce
in Lego.
They fly in formations of two aircraft at all times during landings and take-
offs. Maybe you should build two A-10's :-)
- Bob
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| (...) I would but parts will probably be the limiting factor. The color problem does not bother me. The idea here is to build a model that represents the a-10's shape as best as possible. Keeping the model all one color is ideal. The green could be (...) (24 years ago, 12-Jul-00, to lugnet.build, lugnet.general)
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