A couple 1/72 Hobby Craft CF-100 Canucks

Gallery Article by Shawn "phantom" Weiler on Oct 13 2016

 

      

I walked into my hobby store recently to be met with a older gentlemen and his daughter. They had asked the owner if he knew anyone who could fix his broken 30 year old models. Lance said, "There he is!!" as I walked in. Turns out he is the high hour pilot on the old CF-100 Chinook. Even having delivered the last flying example to the museum in Ottawa. 

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His ground crew built the model it even has the ID plate fixed to the base which looks really nice. All I did was put all the tiny bits back on and re-attached the model to the base. He even supplied two un-built kits to use as a parts source. Well it turns out the repair was easy and I did not need the parts kits. So I built them in colours of planes I guessed he flew back in the day. A hand painted 416 MkV and a MKIV in the training (3OTU) colours. Fun part is I no longer build 1/72 decals were a issue. Seems 1/48 CT-133 markings are pretty close in size to 1/72 CF-100. Could not use the Hobby Craft decals. Too old and nasty looking anyway.

These kits have been sitting in the basement as the pilot has been hospitalized. I sure hope he is feeling better soon so I can get these back to him.

"phantom"

Photos and text © by Shawn "phantom" Weiler