A lot of kits are provided by Fujimi  in this series, most having common parts on the sprues. 

The slat are separate parts, really needed for most Skyhawk versions to be made as the slat droop into an open position when the plane at rest on the ground. 
The undercarriage legs are really finely detailed including the nose steering rod and also the cockpit is nicely done. Two canopies are provided with or without fixed windscreen. The avionics "hump" on top of the fuselage is as separate part, so you can leave them off when desired as many earlier Skyhawk flew without them. Also, you can a nice intake interior although it can hardly be seen. Decals are excellent as provided in this series. 

The biggest error is the size of the main wheels: they are 2 mm too large in diameter. 

A-4C 

This kit is considered to be the ‘mother’ of all A-4C kits. And rightfully so! However, after some checking I still found areas for improvement. 

Move the division between flaps and ailerons one mm. inward. Shorten the slat rails to prevent them from touching the droptanks when lowered and replace the mainwheels with the smaller ones from the white metal set. 

Assembling this kit is somewhat more complicated compared to other kits owing to the split of front and rear fuselage chosen for mould production reasons. By doing it this way Fujimi could save on the die cost when producing the other marks of the A-4. Be careful to correctly adjust the front and rear parts with the wing during cementing. 
As I like the effect I separated the flaps from the wing and in this way could use the number transfers used on the inside of the flaps. 

The kit contains closed and open cockpithood components. I chose to use the separate windscreen-main canopy components to represent the open cockpit and as this avoids having to separate the windscreen from the main canopy I chose the open cockpit. There are no hints for the attachment of the opened canopy in the building instructions so I attached a small plasticard support to the streamlined shape behind the canopy. Some pictures show that two small covers lift from the fuselage when the canopy is open. This I reproduced from plasticard while I also made a security bar to support the canopy. This also gives more strength to the assembly after all painting and decalling has taken place. 

Cocpit details were enhanced with drybrushing silver and seatbelts made from a wine bottle cap. 

The main colors are the standard light gull grey and insignia white. Note that the top of the ailerons is white while the flaps are gull grey.  I always mount the pylons to the droptanks to provide a support during painting. 

Insides of flaps, slats and dive brakes are red, as are the rims of the wheeldoors. 

The hinges of the wheeldoors are very small so I cheat a little with scale by gluing little strips of plasticard to the inside of the wheel wells. 

The whole assembly was airbrushed insignia white, leaving the elevators separate for later assembly, masked and the gull grey applied. After this some coats of Klear were brushed on. This brought me to the ‘which decals will I use’ decision point. 
The kit decals give a number of interesting choices while Mr. Micro Super Scale also makes the choice difficult with many nice schemes. After some deliberation I chose the ‘Spirits’.  VA-76 has as its motto ‘The spirit of 76’. This A-4 also downed a MiG-17 using its unguided Zuni rockets, hence the MiG-17 silhouette on the fuselage. And another argument was the nice reference picture of this very same aircraft in Bunrin-Do nr.31 

The decals fit nicely except of course at the overlap with the spoilers so I cut away those areas and used paint to complete the stars and bars and letters. 
The picture shows a rather wheathered aircraft so after first air brushing Humbrol matt cote over the gull grey areas I started to paint the oilspills on the fuselage which are typical for this mark A-4. Using my customary water soluble oil paint I discovered that this dissolves the matt cote. Apparently there is still a solving agent in the oil paint. 
LESSON : Always test out these things on an old model and use turps based paint only over an acrylic base coat. 
I switched to normal watercolors and this flowed nicely into all the very finely detailed panel lines. This can be splashed on and after drying the excess can be wiped away with a damp cloth. Watercoloring the wheel legs brings out their very fine detailing. 

Two small hints: The filler caps on the drop tanks can be reproduced by dipping a small piece of plastic rod in black paint and stamp the little dot on the tank. For the red warning stripe inside the engine intakes use a small strip of red decal as painting is quite difficult at that spot. 
After final assembly of elevators, cockpit canopy and undercarriage and wheel doors I added the two sensors on the nose and the tiny windscreen wiper made from thin wire. If this succeeds you know that you do not yet need glasses or a stronger one! 

Extra reference: Scale Aviation Modeller International October 2001 
describes how to convert this kit into a very colorful A-4 prototype. 

In the Fujimi series, also the A-4 "super F" version is offered. 

This Super F has a pod on top of the vertical tail and the decals are very nice. 

The F-4 Super F was made into an A-4E seen here by Meindert de Vreeze without an avionics hump on top of the fuselage; markings were a mix from various kits. 

A slightly different version, the A-4E/F in an Agressor variant. 
Slat are in fixed position, so you don't need them here... Cut off the slat guide tracks and glue in place.... 

You can make this kit in another scheme that need the drooped slats. The Agressor markings can be used for the ESCI kit. ... 

The twoseater versions of this series use the basic parts of the single seater with a separate very nice trainer fuselage. Surface deatilling is very fine. 
In this kit markings are provided for US MARINES and an Israeli AF version. This last variant has a longer exhaust pipe, not provided in this kit; make one yourself. 

I made the colourfull number USN "500" . 

A very nice picture of the "500" was found in  Famous Airplanes of the world nr 31 / November 1972 . I used a decal to get the rudder markings correct. 

The droptanks and tipcolours were painted and the green colour required some mixing of Humbrol paints. 

With the kit, I wanted to have the canopy open. On pictures you can see the details on the canopy with the hooks and smaller pieces to lock the caniopy. These small parts you can for example make from pieces of photo negatives. Later on, I foudn that an etched metal set can be bought... well I liked the home made parts also very much.. Finally, I added the 2x2 rera view mirrors. Use pieces of metal coming from the packaging of  your "elderberry wine" ... but don't drink too much during your modelling... hoops... 

This twoseater kit also was issued as the FAC OA-4M: 

The major difference from the above described kit is that you need to use the provided avionics hump. The decals were printed a bit "off register" in my kit, I will replace them. 

finished Fujimi OA-4M of  Meindert de Vreeze; note opened servicing panels

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