1/48 Hobby Craft CT-133 Shooting Star

Gallery Article by Shawn "phantom" Weiler on Nov 16 2016

 

      

This is another repair job for the highest hour CF-100 Canuck pilot. Along with a Canuck he wanted repaired there was an old Shooting Star. The plane was mangled and had questionable markings. Most of the decals were a miss-match, either far too big or clearly 1/72 on a 1/48 scale kit. I offered to repaint it after I fixed it but the model had sentimental value so he wanted it just as he received it. Awesome. 

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So the repair was a challenge. Several missing parts and cracks in the plastic. I did my best but was not able to fix some issues without wiping out the original paint and decals. So I checked my stash. Pulled out a Hobby Craft kit, resin pit and Leading Edge decals. He now gets two models back! I added enough nose weight, fuel dump and the rear seat canopy cover (made of rolled kleenex). 

The fun part was finding proof of the markings for the plane as he could not remember if he flew this one in Cold Lake markings or what. From my research it crashed in the late eighties in full cam in Germany. But it did serve in the seventies at CFB North Bay in 414 colours at the time he would have been stationed there. So that is how I made it.

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Photos and text © by Shawn Weiler