1/48 Hasegawa Kawasaki T-4

Gallery Article by Laurens Steffers

 

This is the T-4, the first all Japanese trainer/jet. I bought it at this years Flanders event in Belgium. My fellow friends bought this kit for 10 euros and after a brief look I decided to buy one too. Especially for the decalsheet.

 

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I scratchbuilt most parts of the cockpit because the sidewalls had no detail. It took me about 6 weeks to finish the project. That's on and off building with an average of 1 hour a day in building.

The only aftermarket game in town is the Eduard Zoom set and the Masking set. That's all. Both were used. I used tamiya paint with my own mix, including preshading. Kit decals were used, a few reference pictures on the net and some guess work with the cockpit.

A mirror was used for the display. Using some revell frisk film and a blowup of the Cobraheads (thanks to some ARC and HS regulars) for the display and a nice project is the result.

Thanks to Jeroen for his help.

Laurens Steffers

      

Photos and text © by Laurens Steffers