From the sky to my Desk: 1/72 Hasegawa CT-133 Silver Star Canadian Forces

Crew: 1&#8211;2
Length: 11.48 m ( 37 ft 8 in )
Wingspan: 12.93 m ( 42 ft 5 in )
Height: 3.55 m ( 11 ft 8 in )
Empty weight: 3 830 kg ( 8 440 lb )
Max. takeoff weight: 7 630 kg ( 16 800 lb )
Powerplant: 1 &#215; Rolls-Royce Nene 10 turbojet, 22 kN ( 5 000 lb )

Hello Everyone,

Well it is about time for season two of posting to begin as it has been a few weeks since my big post. The following posts won't be large or extravagant until this season of models is up. But I hope you are enjoying yourself and are learning some things to help make your models as real as they can be.

Soon I will be testing out an air brush that my dad has bought and hopefully it will give me that real life look. So stay tuned for some of those and enjoy the other models I will be posting about.

1/72 Hasegawa CT-133 Silver Star Canadian Forces

This is perhaps one of the most iconic aircraft of the 20th century and one of the most recognizable aircraft in the world. Yes, this is the T33, or as we Canucks call it, the Silver Star.

The kit was from Hasegawa but I bought it on Ebay as it was incredibly hard for my local retailers to find one.

The aircraft interior is Dark Grey while the over all colour is the lighter IJN Grey with Metallic Grey for the engine exhaust and shiny black for the engine intakes. The kit was easy to assemble but there was a bit of excess plastic. I used decals from Leading Edge Models.

The CT-133 Silver Star was the main intermediate jet trainer during the cold war for the Canadian Forces, but also with Turkey receiving many retired examples as well.

While these aircraft were replaced by the more modern CT-155 Hawk, they were used up until 2000 as enemy simulation aircraft to train pilots to fight real enemies. A single CT-133 was kept until 2005 as a fixed engine test vehicle at Cold Lake. These nimble aircraft were also used as electronics warfare aircraft until their replacement.