SAAF Canberra T.4 repaints

**nazca_steve** · May 1st, 2012, 23:19

Evening all,

at long last I have finally sat down and done some FS again! In this case I decided to indulge in some repainting fun with the subject being two Canberra T.4s of the South African Air Force. Now, I know Jens-Ole has done some superb versions for the Alphasim model, but I thought I'd do the same for my own. They will be available soon, but for now I took them on a little jaunt over Cape Town - both are from 12 Sqn, SAAF.

Firstly, '459' in original High Speed Silver and Day Glo scheme from the 60s:

Some high-jinks (naughty pupil pilot!)

Then '458' in late-era PRU Blue scheme:

Coming back in:

On finals:

Tucked up - natty engine blanks the SAAF used, eh?:

And 459 is in for some maintenance:

These are both for the T.4 model here: http://www.flyingstations.com/canber...-trainers.html but for the rivet counters (me included) 458 would go better with the Peruvian T.74 model I built, as this has the more accurate, late-era UHF aerial. Incidentally 458 was supplied to the Peruvians directly from SAAF in the 90s.

***SSI01*** · May 2nd, 2012, 04:08

Nice going, Steve - will be watching to add them to the fleet!

**nazca_steve** · May 2nd, 2012, 08:34

I admit I am a sucker for Day Glo orange and anything PRU Blue. Good on the SAAF to use two of my favourite schemes! I hope to have them uploaded tonight.

**nazca_steve** · May 2nd, 2012, 22:58

Originally Posted by SSI01

Nice going, Steve - will be watching to add them to the fleet!

They're up - go grab 'em!

http://www.flyingstations.com/repaints-can-tt.html

More T.4s are planned so watch this space.

Steve

***SSI01*** · May 3rd, 2012, 08:19

Thanks, Steve - just visited and downloaded everything on the page to double-check I had them all! Looking forward to a hop in these soon.

**nazca_steve** · May 3rd, 2012, 10:21

Cool, post some pics when you do take that hop. I've kind of neglected the T.4 oddly enough (perhaps because I painted a million of them for the old Paul Foster models!) but there are a wealth of nice schemes for them that is luring me back. I also want to do some more Aussie B.20s.

***SSI01*** · May 3rd, 2012, 11:57

Will do. Was lining up an afternoon hop anyway, so S. Africa is as good a place as any!!

***SSI01*** · May 3rd, 2012, 14:32

[QUOTE=Cool, post some pics when you do take that hop. . .]
Well, here you go - I would have gotten the approach & landing but the machine had a sudden CTD from FS9, not sure what the problem is . . . but I will switch to gaming mode next time I do this. At any rate, here you are: