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I work with a guy who served 8 years in the Marines as a aircraft mechanic, he spent most of them years in California working on F-4 Phantoms but he said the most enjoyable part of his service was stationed in Tennessee at the reserve base working on old A-4 Skyhawks. I want to build him one with makings from the Memphis Marines but having no luck in finding decals for this. Anyone here know where I can find some?

Do you have a particular aircraft and scale in mind? I have a few skyhawks in the stash and could maybe kit bash some together?

Need to know the squadron and time frame to help.

https://skyhawk.org/article-unit/nas-memphis

Floki wrote: ↑Wed Apr 05, 2023 1:51 pm I work with a guy who served 8 years in the Marines as a aircraft mechanic, he spent most of them years in California working on F-4 Phantoms but he said the most enjoyable part of his service was stationed in Tennessee at the reserve base working on old A-4 Skyhawks. I want to build him one with makings from the Memphis Marines but having no luck in finding decals for this. Anyone here know where I can find some?

Do you have any pictures of these aircraft?

Sorry for the lack of Info in the first post, I know better than that.

It would be late 70s early 80s VMA-124
I plan on using the Hasegawa 1/48 A-4M skyhawk II kit since he had said that was he's favorite being made just for the Marines, he also doesn't know I'm doing this for him, I have asked if he has any photos of the aircraft from the time and he's not sure. Any A-4M at the base of his time of service I'm sure would be appreciated. Since my talks with him revealed he wasn't tied to one aircraft

I believe you are looking VMA-124:

https://www.seaforces.org/usmcair/VMFA/VMFA-124.htm

A-4M


A-4E at Memphis:

Thank you for the link, I've seen the bottom photo but not the top. I've talked to him a bit tonight and the M was his favorite but most of what they had and worked on was C's and E's. Thank you for pointing me in the right direction

You're welcome, Clint. Got a Skyhawk belly to the bench right now.