Hasegawa 1/72 Beech T34 Mentor

[yak face]

Heres what i hope will be a quick build . Its the old Hasegawa beech mentor , dating from 1973 . Its a good little kit , quite detailed for its time with extemely finely done raised panel lines ( have to be careful I dont obliterate them with paint!) in 1970s silver plastic , even includes a display nameplate !
it comes with 5 decal options for JASDF or USAF. It also comes with a little towing tractor ,which is nice.
I made a start last night and its going together quite quickly .

[papa 695]

Nice one Tony.

[JayCee]

The kit looks nice. The chocolate digestives even better. :smiling: .
John.

[adt70hk]

The chocolate digestives even better. :smiling: .
John.

Well spotted that man!!

Something very different Tony!

Good luck with the build.

ATB.

Andrew

[yak face]

The kit looks nice. The chocolate digestives even better. :smiling: .
John.

Even better than that john - two chocolate hobnobs and two chocolate digestives ! ( well there was when i started , :smiling5: )

[yak face]

Got the interior done and fuselage together. I used painted strips of tape for the belts and just painted everything else. I painted some shapes on the fuselage sides , these will give the impression of detail under the closed canopy . I added two control columns from fuse wire as strangely the kit didnt supply any. Ive also started assembling the tractor , adding some plastic card bits to the wheelarches to prevent seeing all the way through .

[papa 695]

Fantastic start Tony.

[yak face]

Bit more progress today until it just got too cold in the shed ( btw , had to dig a path to get in there , 12” of snow :fearful::tired
The wings have been glued together and fitted to the fuselage along with the tailplanes , so its looking like an aircraft now. The canopy has been masked up ( my absolute favourite job :rolling and glued on , taped down until its cured . I think I’m going to go for option 1 on the schemes , the all over orange JASDF machine .

[yak face]

Airframe now in primer , next up - orange and as the instruction sheet says — everywhere!

[papa 695]

Coming along very nicely Tony.

[Allen Dewire]

Damn Tony!!! Slow down, will ya.......I can't keep up with all this stuff you keep building!!! It appears you need to find a job, or maybe a second one to give this old guy a chance to keep up Sir..........

Prost
Allen

[yak face]

Damn Tony!!! Slow down, will ya.......I can't keep up with all this stuff you keep building!!! It appears you need to find a job, or maybe a second one to give this old guy a chance to keep up Sir..........

Prost
Allen

Cheers allen , you’re going to have to get the sunglasses out again once it gets painted

[flyjoe180]

Looking forward to the blinding scheme Tony

[yak face]

After experimenting with the orange on a piece of primed scrap plastic its become apparent ( or should that be transparent!) that the grey isnt suitable for a base .
The orange paint ,once thinned for spraying , is quite see through so a coat of vallejo model color matt white has been applied which will give a much better final colour . I also gave the little tow truck a coat while i was at it , a few more bits to add to this yet and still not sure if im going to use the driver figure .

[Waspie]

Looking good. (I must admit to liking your idea of seat straps! - I was wondering how I was going get round that one on my SK). Perks of being new!! Grab tips as you go along!!!