This build was started last christmas and progessed very good, until I had some major setbacks with the decals (more on that later)
The kit is the Profiline 1/72 Let L-13 Blanik, a Czech sail plane. The kit had some favorable reviews and would fit nicely in my small collection of 1/72 gliders so I bought one. The overal impression on the plastic was very good, it is a CAD/CAM designed model. Supposedly Profiline made this Blanik model just to develop the skills of CAD/CAM desiging.
http://www.hyperscale.com/2009/reviews/kits/profiline7001reviewmd_1.htm
Unfortunatly, the instructions where a bit vague on the postition of the cockpit interior. If you ever build one; use the computergenerated box art on the side for reference!
The first attempt looked like this:
However, this resulted in a severe step the the canopy was attached:
The solution: I hade to remove all from the cockpit, repostion and add a spreader.
The canopy fitted much better now but the fit of the wing was still mediocre:
The kit was masked and sprayed with a spray can (yes, the blanik is a metal sail plane)
But then disaster struck. The decals are extremely thin and fragile. I destroyed 2 of the 3 possible decorations, including a very cool DOSAAF cheme :-(
That was last january. It took me some time to get over the setbacks and solve the decal problem. The solution should be to coat the decals with Microscale decal film. So I have coated the decals and am going to put them on tonight (ECT, ofcourse). I hope they work, else I will have to get some new decals from Profiline because there are amazingly little AM options for gliders!