Airfix T-6G Texan

[The Rat]

And it's another mould that should have been retired long ago. Oh well, for $10 Cdn and mostly intended as a quick build, it'll do. One thing I wanted to find out was the idea that pink works well as an undercoat for yellow, and after using both Tamiya colours, it's confirmed. Now, the 'What if?' markings: which major air force never used the Texan/Harvard as a trainer? Probably have to print my own decals again. 

[Steel Penguin]

Blue Oyster Cult   Take me away
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y1NYhbiiiFw
  
to really confuse the norms...

[jcf]

Depends on your definition of "major".

In terms of the Western Hemisphere it
looks like the exceptions are Guatemala,
Ecuador and Peru. At least according to
Wikipedia, I'll check Hagedorn.

Edit: Wikipedia is wrong. 
Looking at Hagedorn it's clear that finding a country that didn't use some version of the NA-16 family is going to be tough.

[The Wooksta!]

I think it's the Heller tool, which is a lovely kit btw, as Airfix released it around 2006.

Airfix did have their own Harvard kit, but it was from the early 60s and very rivetty.  Nice one to just build though.

[kitbasher]

Airfix did have their own Harvard kit, but it was from the early 60s and very rivetty.  Nice one to just build though.

IIRC ye olde Airfix Harvard was actually a Harvard, not a Texan.  The Heller kit (and yes it still is a good one) is a Texan.

[The Rat]

Depends on your definition of "major".

In terms of the Western Hemisphere it
looks like the exceptions are Guatemala,
Ecuador and Peru. At least according to
Wikipedia, I'll check Hagedorn.

Edit: Wikipedia is wrong. 
Looking at Hagedorn it's clear that finding a country that didn't use some version of the NA-16 family is going to be tough.

Version, yes, exact type... Well, 'hop' to it and research.

[The Rat]

Here's the boxing. Comes with decals for Austria, Sweden, and South Africa, but none of those will be used. The fit was iffy in places, horrible gap in some parts of the canopy to fuselage, ambiguous instructions in spots. But it looks lIke a Harvard, and the price was alright.

[scooter]

The People's Republic of China?
North Korea?
Finland?
Kuwait, the UAE, Bahrain, Qatar?
Seychelles?
Algeria, Libya, Chad, Mali, Egypt, Jordan?
Luxembourg, Andorra, Monaco, Vatican City?

[The Rat]

Blue Oyster Cult   Take me away
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y1NYhbiiiFw
  
to really confuse the norms...

  

[Leading Observer]

The Sovereign Military Order of Malta [SMOoM

[jcf]

PRC: ~10 known of including one AT-16 that defected from Taiwan. The actual number seized from Nationalist forces
during and after the Revolution is not
known.

Egypt/UAR*: 59+, mostly Harvards.

Jordan: 3 Harvard IIB (ex-RAF)

*United Arab Republic - Egypt and Syria
There was also the Federation of Arab
Republics - Lybia, Egypt and Syria. It
didn't happen, despite plebiscites that
approved the idea, it was Gadaffi's, but
I suppose one could say it did and, voilà, Libyan T-6/Harvard. 

[jcf]

Panama had one but it never had any military markings or a serial number.

[The Rat]

Blue Oyster Cult  Take me away
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y1NYhbiiiFw
  
to really confuse the norms...

[The Wooksta!]

Heller tooling.

[jcf]

Interestingly documentation of the former US training command T-6Gs delivered via MDAP/MAP five groups, totalling 117 aircraft, are listed as unknown under recipient.