Special Hobby 1/48 T-2 Buckeye

[Hammerhead]

Hi!

 

As a relatively new member here, i'll try and do a little WIP-report on my current project: Special Hobby's 1/48th T-2 Buckeye

 

 

On the plus side of the kit are almost perfect resin-parts (ejection seats and other cockpit-parts) and a small sheet of PE-parts.

The downside is that not every injection-moulded part fits on first contact... but that's just me being spoiled by recent high-end kits. (In fact, there's nothing really wrong with this kit!!)

 

Here are the two ejection-seats, already painted and awaiting decals and the cockpit missing some small detailing:

The last pic for today is a little dry-fit test of the fuselage:

 

 

Will report more as the project grows...

Cheers from Austria!

 

 

[Crossofiron1971]

Great start!

[BlueFlyer]

Nice subject, looking forward to progress

[Anders_Isaksson]

Great subject, I have the Wolfpack T-2 in 72nd scale so following with interest.

[Hammerhead]

Hi again and THX for the nice posts!

 

Here's my latest progress on the Buckeye:

Although there were some gaps to fill and sand (especially on the bottom of the fuselage), the raw shell is ready.

In the nose i inserted about 15g of ballast of steel-balls and glue.

 

There also was some work to do around the air-intakes.

The internal pipes leading to the turbines made an awful edge in the intake and had to be ground down.

 

 

On the following pic, the left pipe is finished and ready for placing the intake. As you can see i had to remove quite some plastic here...

 

 

 

Here's the belly of the Bucky... with all the filling and sanding done. Next step: rescribing.

 

 

Last but not least: fixed the wing-tanks today and now "she" starts to look like a Buckeye

 

 

And as always there's chaos reigning on my worbench.

Cheers from Austria!

 

Edited December 11, 2016 by Hammerhead

[BerndM]

Looks great so far. An interesting and colofull modelling project.