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GWH 1/48 T-33A, 349th FB, Hamilton AFB, California, 1955


zaxos345

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Good morning lads,

I finally finished my new summer project GWH's 1/48th scale T-33A.

My time was limited to present you an in progress work, but i will try to give you an idea !!

The kit and some aftermarkets...also used some custom masks for the ''USAF'' and ''TR-411'' codes from my friend Alexis

 

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And the scheme i am for is the second one TR-411, here is the only photo i managed to find..

 

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A few words about the kit....AWESOME!!! (my humble opinion!)....nothing more

A few words about Caracal decals...the same!!! Awesome!!

 

I started dealing with the cockpit as a usual...here i used Eduard PE for the cockpit and the pilot's seat!

Cockpit...

 

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Seats...

 

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All together and weatherd...

 

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Wheel wells

I slightly modified the main wheel wells, painted them an weathered...

 

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I also used Eduard PE flaps, i decided to pose them down..

 

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I glued everything together, fit was really great!! Some sanding work needed but it was my fault, i did not prepared the plastic joints too good!!

And it was painting time, i used Ak extreme metal for the metallic finish and , as i did with my F-86D, i sprayed it with very light passes on the bare plastic! of course i had prepared the plastic thoroughly for this work and i had also polished it with micromesh!

Finish was awesome. a bit fragile, but awesome. I did not want a mirror finish bird, i wanted it a bit weathered and slightly used. The bare metal takes a beautiful patina over time and different on each occasion. It is never the same!!

Everything painted so far

 

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Decals on...

 

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John

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And time for weathering!! My opinion is that this face is totally personal. The goal is not to exaggerate and to try to be in scale!!

Anyway, i used only oils for my way of weathering this bird, thinned for washing or unthinned for dry bryshing!!

Hope you like it...

The ''TR-411'' code is also painted with mask

I love this patina you get with oils!!!!!

 

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