Hello all
Here is my I-16 painted up to represent red 34 of the Soviet Navy as see in the Balkans in 1942 (At least thats what I'm told.)
This is my very first Soviet subject and I built it simply because I love the novel looking shape. It's kind of like an armed Gee Bee racer!
All of the markings are painted on, no decals. The chipping effects were done by spraying the base colors (which weren't 100% accurate, but under all that white, no biggy). I then used a toothpick to dab on Elmer's rubber cement to the places that I wanted the green to peak through. I find the rubber cement alot easier to control and much less caustic than the slat chipping method. Plus, you get nice random, round-edged chips instead of little squares from the crystals. After about and hour of placing the cement masking, I sprayed the white which was Tamiya XF-2 watered about 50/50 with alcohol. After that has about three hours to cure, I roll low tack tape over the surface to pull up the rubber cement and expose the paint underneath. Some spots are a little stubborn and require tweezers.
Well, I hope you like. Not to toot my own horn but this model took gold in it's catagory at the IPMS Niagara Frontier's show (BuffCon) last month. It was straight out of the box. I was stoked that I took a "regular" catagory with an OOB project!
Comments and critiques gladly accepted!
Justen
"The distance between genius and insanity is measured only by success."
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