Seamless Suckers | SS-027: 1/32 A-7D/E Intake and Exhaust
Reviewed by Ben Brown
After almost two years since production was stopped, Seamless Suckers is back! Their latest release is a seamless intake for Trumpeter’s A-7 Corsair II kits.
Cast in tan resin, the intake and exhaust nozzle are direct replacements for the kit parts. The quality of the castings of the review parts and some F-4 intakes I just purchased is much better than it was when the company stopped production. There are no visible air bubbles and the surfaces of the parts are so well-mastered that they look like plastic. I don’t have an A-7 kit to do any test-fitting, so I can’t comment on that area. The kit intake has some shape problems, mainly that it’s too flat on the underside. Note that this isn’t a correction part for the kit’s too-flat intake, it’s just a straight replacement for folks who don’t mind the shape and don’t want to bother with filling a bunch of hard-to-get-at intake seams. Just looking at photos of the kit, to my eye it looks like one would have to do a lot of reshaping clear back to the nose gear well to fix the kit’s shape.
Some of Seamless Suckers’ other products include 1/32 intakes for Tamiya’s and Revell’s F-4s, Academy’s 1/32 F/A-18s, 1/48 Hasegawa F-4s, F-16s, and A-7s, Trumpeter’s 1/48 Flagon, and many others. Highly recommended!
A catalog is available from: Seamless Suckers
406 N. Hoover Rd.
Wichita, KS 67212-2550
Sprue Brothers is the only online sources of these products. Check with Gordon for availability.
Thanks to Robert Brown, owner of Seamless Suckers, for the sample intake! (I have no family or business relation to Seamless Suckers or Sprue Brothers.)
© Ben Brown 2006
This product is available from the following LSP sponsors
This review was published on Saturday, July 02 2011; Last modified on Wednesday, May 18 2016