Now this definately makes a change from NMF! SAC had a few of these with the 350th SRS, 100th SRW.
This will hopefully turn out to be 56-0527 which was at Davis Monthan in late 1968 after returning from Vietnam.
The kit has some issues, the fuselage being one. As the remedy involves the Airfix fuselage, a kit I haven't got in stock, I'm leaving that alone. The engines represent the early T56A-9 engines, useless for an E but spot on for the A. The kit comes with four bladed props and this a/c did not receive them until 1982. Another Italeri kit passed through my hands and a swap for the three bladers in that kit was made.
The exhausts are not right for any variant and will have to be modified. Extra round windows will be needed and of course, there's the biggie...........a large nose extension.
There have been resin conversions made for this in the dim and distant past, but as the kit has not seen the light of day since the late 1990s, getting my hands on one is going to be impossible. Good job I've got some Milliput!
The cockpit has been painted and assembled as per the kit. With the poor transparencies, detailing this area would be a waste of resources. A few licks of paint and that's enough.
Anyway, here's the photos showing where it's up to now.
More later.
W