1/32 Czech Model CT-133 Silver Star

Gallery Article by Shawn "phantom" Weiler on July 1 2016

  Canada Day 

 

      

Ok...I like the way this one turned out. A Czech Model T-33 done up as a Canadiar built CT-133 Silver Star. The ejection seat test bird which was used at CFB Cold Lake from at least 1960 till 1995. This airframe (133505) rarely if ever left Cold Lake. As you can see its rear canopy was cut away to allow the ejection seat to depart the airframe without needing a new canopy for every test.

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The decals are simple stripes from the spare bin, the rest are kit for the maintenance markings and Belcher Bits for the Canadian specific airframe markings.

The pilots are on loan from a 1/32 Tamiys F-4 kit. To make the ejecting dude look right I had to shave off his bum to make him sit lower in the seat. I had to cut his legs and lengthen them as they were just to short looking at first. Then I un-bent the poor dudes arms as the "Gs" pushed them straight as he left the plane. Then a cotton ball painted with Tamiya smoke for the right effect.

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Photos and text © by Shawn "phantom" Weiler