T-33A "Early" (WIP)
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Small improvements
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Painting the dials
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Closing the fuselage
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The fit is not perfect - particularly, the nose is quite bad, because it has a huge step relative to the fuselage
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Puttying and sanding, end of second night
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Primed with Ammo One Shot
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Masking for there Chipping Fluid (Ammo) followed by acrylic black
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Black chipped dry with an awl
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The seats ready for matt varnish - I removed the cushions, as my references show the portuguese T-33 did not have them
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Moving forward with MRP-194 Luminous Orange (you really have to paint white beneath it)
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Last decals applied and Ammo Panel Line Wash (A.MIG-1616), with generous "baths" of Tamiya X-22 gloss varnish in between and after
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Masking to apply matt varnish (MRP-127 Super Clear) on wheel wells
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Matt varnish going down (MRP-127)
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And when pulling the tape up... here comes the decal... 🙁
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Gear
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Standing on its feet!
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Finished
Commentaires
24 March 2018, 01:36
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Cockpit looks good! I have the old Hawk kit in my stash to do one of these days...
9 April 2018, 11:47
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Cockpit is nice but a little too simple. The color callouts, however, are completely wrong.
9 April 2018, 13:27
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Count me in.
I have both versions from them and the kit looks great in the box.
17 April 2018, 04:52
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Let's see how it comes out. I must confess I had high expectations but the fit is not great and the engravings are quite shallow on some parts of the kit. This is not evident in the photos.
4 May 2018, 21:05
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Thanks. It is a bit exagerated for an operating plane, but it sure was fun to do! 🙂
29 May 2018, 23:02