1/72 8 Squadron Panthers T-4

[Hoops]

The Hasegawa kit is very nice and I can highly recommend it. I added turned brass pitots, Eduard PE and some scratchbuilding in the cockpit. I also deepened and smoothed out the intakes a bit as they are rather shallow straight out of the box.

 

Paint was Model Master Acrylics, sealed with Future.

 

For decals stencils are from Platz, the 8th Squadron logo is from the kit, and the serial numbers/crew chief were ALPS printed.

 

After decals, it was given another coat of future and the panel lines highlighted with the Tamiya dark brown panel line highlighter. It was my first time trying it, and I think it will be a good addition to the toolbox.

 

Photos were just taken with my mobile phone, so the quality is not amazing, but I think it gets the job done.

 

Here is the orginal. I hadn't looked at my references for quite a while building the kit, so I missed that his one included the antennas on either side of the vertical tail:

 

IMG_6000 by J Hooper, on Flickr

 

A couple of in progress pics of the cockpit before paint:

 

IMG_6281 by J Hooper, on Flickr

 

IMG_6285 by J Hooper, on Flickr

 

And the aircraft as completed today:

 

20190421_143913 by J Hooper, on Flickr

 

20190421_143901 by J Hooper, on Flickr

 

20190421_143925 by J Hooper, on Flickr

 

20190421_144000 by J Hooper, on Flickr

 

Cheers and thanks for the look!

Hoops

Edited April 21, 2019 by Hoops

[Terry1954]

Very nice indeed. Almost picked up a double boxing of one of these at a good price in Kyoto in Japan recently, and now wish I had! Love the finish.

 

Terry