1/48 Testors Skymaster

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Here are some pics of an early build of the Testors O-2 Skymaster.

This was an early attempt at seam filling with putty, as well as using an airbrush. Hadn’t gotten the hang of masking canopies yet. The main landing gear didn’t look right when installed (not sure if it was the kit’s fault, I could have royally messed it up) so I built it as a flying model.

The instructions said that you could use the side window decals as a guide to cut out spaces in the fuselage for the clear windows that came with the kit. This was a little too “out of my league” so I just put the decals on.

Here’s the underside. This was back when I gave my puttying technique one shot. That’s probably still my weakest area.

I weathered this using ground up pastels, mostly black and browns. The “whip” antennas are short pieces of nylon monofilament thread painted black.

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I think it looks good. Thanks for the look.

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Looks great! I have this kit in my waiting to be built stock and hope I can get as good a result out of mine as you did here!

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Looks good Edward & sounds like you are developing your modeling skills.

Regards, Rick

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Good looking build, you are certainly improving with each build. Darren.

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Brave of you to post pics and then point out your mistakes! [bow]

IMHO it is the building and learning that is important. Not necessarily the end result. [^]

Your kit looks better than my early builds, in fact, I’m still in the Early Build Stage! [(-D]

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Good job on the FAC. I have that one as well as their OV-10. I have been putting off building them for various reasons but now I’m going to have to brake mine out. I saw one that was black with two in white words on the top of the wing, “THE FAC”. I think I’ll do that one. Thanks for the inspiration.

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Good build, built it many years ago myself

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Thanks for the kind words, fellers. Ikar01, I’ve built the OV-10. Not a bad little kit, but the interior begs for some detailing, what with that big ol’ canopy. I finished mine in an experimental (or so the instructions said) Marine Corps camo scheme that looked a lot better than the plain grey. I’ll take some pics of that and post them in a few days.

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great looking skymonster. i would like to do one of these some day, probably will do it as a civvie one though.

cheers for sharing it with us.

Greg

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Nice built on the Skymaster!