Hellenic
Airforce colours
This is my latest
model, that took me over 3 years to complete. It is my first attempt to make a
vacuform kit. It is the old Maintrack kit from the Golden Wings series in 1/48
scale. The model includes a pair of resin ejection seats with poor detail, metal
landing gears, wheels and resin intakes. It offers decals for two planes, both
in US Navy markings.
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I start building my model
cutting all parts from the plastic sheets. I scratchbuild the cockpits
from plastic sheet and rods. All details were added from plastic and wire
of 3 different diameters. I used the resin seats of the kit but I added
the safety harnesses. The 2 instrument panels are coming from the RF4 kit
of Hasegawa, they are not 100% correct but its hard to tell in the scale.
I made the main landing gears from plastic rod and wire. The front landing
gear is the metal of the kit with added detail from wire and plastic. The
landing gear wells and covers are also made by plastic sheet with details
from plastic and wire. I also scratchbuild the arresting hook and the
the gunsight of the Greek T-2E birds. Before to assemble the model I scratched the rivets which were missing from the kit.
After I completed
the assembly I sprayed a grey primer to check the joints. I pre-shaded the model
with acrylic matt black from Tamiya. I sprayed the SEA camouflage scheme using
the Xtra colour paints No X102, X110, X116 and X140. The Greek markings
came from Icarus Decals, the rest of the markings are from various decal sheets. I
weathered the colours with different tones of the basic colours, and I washed
the model with oil paint. A final coat of semi gloss varnish and my T-2E was
ready to take its place in my collection.
Dimitris Savides
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