Saw this beautiful airplane at the Miramar Airshow and fell in love with the lines. Reminicent of the Embraer Tucano. Nice kit so far - not a lot a parts. They provide two vacu-formed canopys, resin nose, spinner, exhaust, wheels and nice color guide. Instructions aren’t entirely clear, but with so few parts its pretty obvious. Anyhow - I’ll post up as I make progress - and I’m doing her in the USAF trainer blue and white.
Progress today. Fusalage seams and nose cleaned up. Got the wing together and mated to the fuselage along with the horizontal stablizer. Some fit issues you can see at the wing root and the unusual way the horizontal stabalizer attaches - like those old 5 cent balsa gliders. Will require filling and sanding for sure
But what a beauty I’m hoping she is when I’m all finished - just like this shot
All right!! Something different for a change! Great job so far, keavdog!! I’ve always liked the looks of that design. Got see one at an airshow somewhere a few years ago. Love the whine of that turboprop!
Gary
Odd choice for the attachment of the horizontal stabilizer, but such is life. Looks like you’ve got a pretty good handle on this one!
Keavdog, I’m glad to see your build log on this airplane. This is a build I’d like to to maybe twice. I believe the kit has tail marking for Randolph, Vance and Moody AFB. My dad took flight instruction at Randolph, beginning in the summer of 1942, and then instructed at Vance, then called Enid AAF, from summer of 1943 to December 1944. Twenty plus years later I was assigned to Moody AFB. At the time Moody was an ATC base with T-37s and T-38s. So, anyway, I’d like to build a T-6 II, either Vance or Moody, so I’ll be following your build log. From what I’ve seen on your thread, this seems like a simple build. I’m looking forward to your future posts.
Great start on a unique kit! I like the direction this is going in. Very meticulous.
Toshi
Cool! The kit has markings for 84th and 85th @ Laughlin, 559th @ Randolph and the 8th @ Vance. I intend to do the 559th @ Randolph.
Ready for primer
Shot a coat of Tamiya white primer (rattle can) and its looking pretty good. May get to paint this weekend 
I shot the gloss white over the weekend - now that I understand Mr Color I’m loving it.
Shot the Midnight Blue tonight
It looks beautiful. I can’t wait to see more shots of the color scheme especially with the decals on.
Your friend,
Toshi
Got the gear on… and despite a huge wad of clay in the nose she’s still tail-sitting. I’ll do something with the spinner. Had a few issues with the vacu-form canopy and need to cleanup the antiglare panel - my super reliable tamiya tape bled a bit. Anyhow, started some of the decals.
Also stripped the spinner (plus the S2T cal fire spinners). Didn’t like the results of the Alclad chrome over testors chrome so I did it the right way with Mr Color gloss black and Alclad chrome. They look better
Hi,
That looks really nice
Still sitting on her tail 
note the clear mix bottle tail stand. I’ll have to figure somethingout there.
Good looking aircraft and a fine build.
Short of some Plutonium-239 in the spinner I guess you’ll just have to have a 1/48 figure of a maintenance person with his/her hand(s) touching the horizontal stabilizers somewhere.
P.S. Please don’t use Plutonium [:D].
I was thinking through why I had so many issues with the canopy and I’m starting to wonder if its polycarbonate/Lexan. Back in my RC car days we had to use a special paint for lexan.
I masked and sprayed the canopy with Mr Color - which is a laquer. When I took the tape of it pulled up the paint in a saw tooth fashion. It scraped off pretty easy when dry so I masked a sencond time and pulled the tape off while the paint was still wet. Still chipped easy. Anyhow - never had so much trouble with vacu-form canopies in the past.
Last decals, a bit of touchup and a shot of Future to finish…done
Pics in tomorrow when the Future settles
Done - had to take a bit of clear sprue for a tail stand.
Hi,
The Texan II is a very interesting airplane and your build turned out great. [:)]
Pat