Lockheed F-80C - from "PACAU" Sqn - Brazilian Air Force - 1/72 - Airfix

[AndreFerro]

Hi everyone!
And I keep my duty of building the kits of planes used by FAB (Brazilian Air Force) as much as possible.
This is an old kit (back from the 60ies, I think!) which I ihave bought on e-bay sometime ago.

The kit:
Artbox:


Inside, most of the pieces were out of their sprues:


Instructions (damm old! Like egyptian papirus!):




Decals (damm old as well, but I won´t use them...):


These are the decals I will use! a decal set from FCM, a Brazilian manufacturer!


...which could be used on several versions: (Mexico, Portugal Chile !)


The one I choosed:



Well... Starting over !

First issue: The wingtip tanks used by FAB, was the "Fletcher" ones! And the kit has only the "Lockheed" and "Mizawa" ones...


But.....

A good friend modeller, contacted me and kindly and generously offered a copy of the "Fetcher" tanks in resin:


So.... I started with the tanks !!
After some sanding and filling.... here is one of them (portside one):


But still missing the Starboardside one !


After competed the Stbside tank, a quick dryfit :


And the airbrush started to work!

Yellow green on the wheel-wels, internal landing gear doors and cockpit:


Seat & pilot: DONE !


Front landing gear bay glued, as well as some ballast on the FWD part:


Landing gears: check!


Two halves of the fuselage glued, stabilyzers and wingtip tanks as well!


Pilot installed at his 'office' as well !


Filling the gaps !


Excess puty removed:


First coat aluminium airbrushed :


Some details in red on the wingtip tanks:


Masking for a different tone of aluminium:


A mix of XF-32 (Titanium Silver) with X-19 (Smoke) both Tamiya :


Masks removed:


close up:


Some decals which I have decided not to use...


But will airbrush instead:


tip of tanks:


masks off:


Close up and masked for anti glare strip painting in black:


Which was also done, also some preshading:


After a thin coat of aluminium, started decalling:


Finishing decalling, and glued landing gears and bombs:


... and DONE :












And that´s it !

Hope you liked it !!

[Smiffy]

Good looking FAB F-80

[Elve1984]

Nice looking F--80, great result on the old kit. Did you encounter a lot of fit issues?

[AndreFerro]

Nice looking F--80, great result on the old kit. Did you encounter a lot of fit issues?

Thks!!
Surprinsigly no, Mate !