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This is another of my
"what-ifs" paint schemes. My 10yr old daughter wanted me
to build her a "red, white and blue" plane. I went through the
box of "Freebies" that Thanh gave me earlier this year, and came up
with the T-33A Trainer from Testors. It's a fairly easy kit to put
together. I slapped this baby together within a day. Mininal filling and
sanding since it'll be for the 10 yr old to play with.
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I came up with the scheme that also
easy to paint on since there's no decals in the box for this kit. I looked
around in my scrap box, and found left over decals for various a/c. And
this is what the Trainer becomes. My kit was missing the left fuel tank.
Frank Beltran at the local IPMS was kind enough to give up the tank from his own
Testors kit. And the plane is now completed.
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About the kit, ... not so good.
It has huge rivets, and panel lines. NO details inside the cockpit and
seats. The worst of all was NO wheel wells for the landing gears, you can
just see thru them to the back of the canopy. Frank told me that his kit
has wheel wells, so maybe Testors including this feature after boxing mine.
I used ModelMasters Gloss White and Guard Red for the paint job. The Blue
is from Gunze acrylic (H5) Blue. The stars were cut out from the masking tape
and applied in random before painting the blue color. Decals for the main
markings from an F-100 sheet in 1/72 scale from Microscale. The Duck was
from an Superscale P-47 sheet, and the Stars and Stripes was from an Aeromaster
F-105 sheet. Both nose arts are in 1/48.
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The
"9-11-2001" marking is made up by cutting the designated decal
numbers on the decals sheet, and apply them one at a time.
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I don't
recommend this kit for anyone that wants to build it OOB, unless you want it for
a quick build therapy session. Don't expect to get much out of it, but a
"quicky". I saw that Academy is also have this kit in 1/48 scale.
Anyone has experience with the Academy kit? Enjoy the pictures. I
don't want to hear any gripes out there about any of the inaccuracies of the
build. Chill out folks! It's a quick build for a 10 yr old. I
enjoyed building it and she loves it.
Happy Modelling.
Thang
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