Product Description

- Reproduce the white color initial type painting

[About the actual machine]
- On January 19, 1958, the prototype T1F2 successfully completed its first flight.
- In 1959, the Orface engine-equipped type was formalized as T-1A and mass production was decided.
-The T-1A, the first mass-produced aircraft delivered in September 1960, was mainly deployed in the 13th flight instruction group and demonstrated its power in training new pilots.
- The T-1 was the first jet trainer developed in Japan after World War II.
- The Japan Air Self-Defense Force needed a jet as a secondary trainer for its post-war pilot training program.
- So I decided to develop a domestic jet trainer.
-The fuselage developed by Fuji Heavy Industries has a tandem layout seat arrangement and adopts a swept wing for the main wing.
- Prototype 1 made its maiden flight in 1958.
- In addition, domestically produced turbojet engine J3 was completed.
- When mass production began at Ishikawajima-Harima Heavy Industries, the engine of the T-1 was also changed to the domestically produced J3.
- The T-1 equipped with this engine was named T-1B, and 20 aircraft were produced and deployed from 1962 to 1963.

[About the model]
-A plastic model assembly kit that reproduces the T-1B, a domestic jet trainer operated by the Air Self-Defense Force, on a 1/72 scale.
- Reproduced with a total length of about 168mm, featuring a cockpit with swept wings and a double-seat tandem layout.
-In addition to the panel lines, details such as the legs and the inside of the cockpit are modeled in detail.
- You can assemble one aircraft that is indispensable in the history of Japanese aviation with your own hands.
- This kit models the T-1B equipped with a domestic engine.
- At the beginning of its introduction, the aircraft, which was unpainted natural metal, was painted white from around 1965 to prevent salt damage.
- The model reproduces the white paint era.
- Marking reproduces the marking of 2 aircraft from the 13th flight training group (Ashiya base) around 1965 and the marking of the 1985 experimental air corps (Gifu base) No. 857 with Cartograf decals.

[Major features]
- 1/72 scale reproduction of the Air Self-Defense Force's jet trainer T-1B
- Finished total length is about 168mm
- Accurate modeling of aircraft shape with swept wings
-Reproduce 3 types of white painted aircraft markings


Item Size/Weight : 27.5 x 13.3 x 4 cm / 151g

Product Specifications

Country

Japan

Item code

AC-73

JAN code

4545782085297

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