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Korean company Wolfpack Design (http://www.wolfpack-d.com/) has announced a brand new 1/72th kit of the North American T-2C Buckeye - http://www.wolfpack-d.com/htm/kit.html Source: http://scalemodels.r...2C-Buckeye.html V.P.

Not quoted in most of the Nuremberg Toy Fair 2012 reports is a 1/32nd North American T-2 Buckeye kit in development by Special Hobby. Future ref n° SH32037 Source Aeroscale: http://aeroscale.kitmaker.net/modules.php?...4302&page=4 Image link: http://aeroscale.kitmaker.net/photos/featu...02/39_mpm25.jpg V.P.

Greetings to all. This is my first post and first build on your forum, so I'll grab the opportunity to introduce myself as well, if you don't mind. (in the spoiler) I remember first finding out about this kit back then when I used to live in Greece. I've been wanting to build it since then, but I never dared to, mostly due to the controversial opinions about it. But since I found it online at a very reasonable price, I thought I should give it a go. Then, seeing a couple of amazing builds of this same model in here, I'm a bit embarrassed presenting mine, but I'll get over it. I hope you will too. By the way, this is going to be a long post, because I've come a long way with the build. I started with the cockpit, obviously, where almost everything (except for the floor) comes in resin and PE. Good detail, I loved the two seats, the side consoles and foot-pedals. I replaced the rod that opens and closes the canopy with a needle threaded with thin copper wire, because a) the one supplied with the kit was too short and b) because the actual rod is threaded along its full length. It was an easy intervention, so no big deal here. And with the two halves of the fuselage together, the whole thing looked like this: I don't know how others who built this model experienced it, but for me no two parts of the whole model came together as they should, intentionally at least. So, it wasn't a great surprise when I came to this point: Don't panic Nasos, it's cool. I used stretched sprue to cover the gaps and Mr Surface 1200 from GS to make the surface smoother. In the end, and after I applied a black basing, the model it looked like Batmobile, but I was rather pleased with it. It probably could get a bit better, but... yeah, whatever. I had a little problem with the canopy. Ok, "little" is probably the understatement of the week, but anyhow. Here's the thing: I was planning on building a Greek a/c, but according to the instructions, the Greek machines have this HUD-like device. Maybe I cut the vacu-formed canopy wrong, but I just couldn't get this HUD-thing to fit under the windshield. So, I broke it off and now I am going for the Venezuelan version instead. This is how it looked like, unfortunately. Anyhow. The model is for the most part painted now and resting. I'll try to make smaller posts next time, with the step-by-step presentation of the rest of the build. Have a great evening and stay healthy!

North American T-2C Buckeye. Pics thanks to Dennis taken at The Illinois Aviation Museum.

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!