Fuji T1-A; Hasegawa 1/72

[vacant]

I find it hard to resist a splash of colour, especially when it only cost £3 (bought at the recent 2017 Salisbury model show). It's a fairly of kit and I had a lot of bother with the decals, but it got there in the end.

[Stuart]

Very nice!

[Zee28]

Certainly colourful Vacant! Not a type I'm familiar with but very attractive. Nice job.

Zee28

[Purplethistle]

I do love a subject / background tie-in! Superb work as usual

[shangos70]

I do like that very much, I'd been looking at picking one of these up but don't tend to see many about. I like the early jet trainers.

[celt]

Another colourful masterpiece,well tidy mun.

[Barry]

I like it...don't see this one built up very often.

[iggie]

Very nice indeed

[MarkyM607]

Wasn't this the first home designed aircraft in Japan since the end of WWII?.

[Eric Mc]

Very nice.

I think it evolved out of the F-86 (as did the FIAT G-91 to a certain extent).

[Lone Modeller]

Wherever it evolved from Vacant has made another very good representation of an aircraft from parts that I for one would hesitate to try to assemble.

[gbrwn56]

nice build, thanks for sharing.

[vacant]

Assembling the parts presented no problems. The kit is fairly basic so there was not much to go wrong and best of all, all the parts were there, still in their sealed bag. The only bothers were the disintegrating decals and the need for so much masking to paint the red/orange (my own mix) and of course, the splashes of dayglow. I missed out painting a frame inside the canopy half way along, but -it will have to stay as it is.

[ShaunW]

Spot on build, Vacant and nicely posed in flight with Fuji in the background!