giles Posted February 10, 2011 Share Posted February 10, 2011 I am surprised no one has proposed the CT-155. So, here is my contribution. I packed the tiny kit for our annual Chinese New Year get away. Thought it was a nice little kit to do a quick OOB after the kids have gone to bed. After researching other people's builds online (I don't own any Hawk reference in my defence), things quickly took a turn towards OTT... This is what I did to the cockpit with "research" based largely on Neomega's Resin 1/48 pit. More time was spent online than gluing a few stretched sprue! I also butchered (rather badly... more about the salvage job later) the wing flaps and main undercarriage wells with a pen knife. Giles Quote Link to post Share on other sites
AX 365 Posted February 10, 2011 Share Posted February 10, 2011 Look forward to your progress, sir. Markings? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
ALF18 Posted February 10, 2011 Share Posted February 10, 2011 Good luck with it! I have a few pics that may be helpful if you send me your e-mail address by PM... and I also know a guy who might have even more refs (but I haven't asked him if he minds, so I won't offer his help yet...). ALF Quote Link to post Share on other sites
giles Posted February 15, 2011 Author Share Posted February 15, 2011 @AX365, Italeri kit with Cutting Edge decals for RCAF/NATO joint training squadron. @ ALF18, Thanks for the offer. PM sent. No photos for today, but I have "more or less" repaired the undercarriage wells I have butchered earlier. To complicate things, I thought of scratching my own seamless intakes so that I could leave the FOD off... So much for OOB. I will post photos when have figured out how to us a new camera. Giles Quote Link to post Share on other sites
giles Posted February 18, 2011 Author Share Posted February 18, 2011 Some close up of the cockpit bits. They look rough, but should be OK after a clean up and proper paint job. I have not figured out how to do the IPs because Italeri's IPs do not resemble the real instrumentation on the Canadian Hawks. I have also deepened the nose undercarriage well. I am aiming for an approximate effect - not sure how much can be seen once the bird on its landing gears. The main undercarriage wells I butchered earlier have been "kinda" fixed... they still need a lot of finishing work. Don't you love puttying and sanding :blink: . I am not really that keen to get on with it... I will work on something more interesting first... scratching seamless intakes... Giles Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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