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Sorry to hear that, Stik---hope all is well...drop in and visit if you can...
Well I am currently building the 1/32 Mig29UB sooo when I have done that I will get to work on the flanker if I have got it by then but I should. The Mig is going on display in the Belfast model shop when finished as my friends who work there said they would like something new to display for Christmas which will be here soon enough. The next pics of the Mig will be up on Sunday as I am actually making it I just cannot prove it yet!!! Anyway you should see some good pics on Sunday, hope you guys liked the Flanker video. I have to go now as I have studying to do until the early hours then its up for work at 5.30am urrrgh.
Enough with the excuses already---just do it and post pics...
You're a harsh man Manstein you ever know my old Petty Officer Rowntree? You'd get on with him lol.
Time for me to move on to the next!!!
The exhaust cans were painted flat black, then drybrushed with a silver/bronze/black mix, followed by a dark wash.
The bang seat and burner cans were a/m resin...missiles and wheels were stolen from Italeri's kit, decals were from "Authentic Decals", and quite problematic...had a few rip very easilly...pretty much impervious to micro-sol as well...but I managed!
Really nice work there, I am having trouble deciding which country to make my Mig 29 from. What are you making next?
Sweet---that MiG could have easily looked cartoonish w/ all of the garish markings but somehow you've pulled it off once again...!
That's a nice looking MiG, Fermis. Another one done well.
Beautiful work again, Fermis! I should probably stop applauding you and get to work before Manny yells at me...
Jon
My Blog: The Combat Workshop
fermis Wow---those burner cans are the "BOMB"!!! What brand are they; how many pieces, resin? They look better than a lot that are in 48th scale!
Wow---those burner cans are the "BOMB"!!! What brand are they; how many pieces, resin? They look better than a lot that are in 48th scale!
Topside camo is done.. I went with MM Willow Green darkened a little with Olivegrun RLM 80 for the last color. In person it isn't quite as neon as it appears in photos although it is bright, almost cartoonish.
It's the boldest scheme I've ever painted, that's for sure....
Let this dry for a while and then mask for the underside blue...
Interesting...that green is bright! I suspect you are going to need to do some heavy filtering (maybe dot-method) to tone those colors down and blend them together...
Fantastic colours what country are you doing Dre? Also really nice and neat looks brilliant, I hope mine turns out half as nice as this one looks so far.
Dean27- It's based on an afghan AF bird that was defected to Pakistan around 1980.. or so the Eagle Strike decal sheet says.
Manny- my usual AC weathering looks, in the end, like I've done a piece of armor... I'm hoping to achieve a somewhat better result on this one.
At any rate, it now has a lovely blue underside... I used MM Flanker Medium Blue instead of Underside Blue because all the pics I've found of this bird show a somewhat brighter blue than the Underside Blue color. As practice on this one, I followed that up with a lightened mix with RLM 76 that I used to shade on the panels. The tonal differences are really tiny.
showing a little wheel well detail- some cleanup is needed.
there;s a lot of paint on this thing...
Well, I've finally got a little progress to report. The cockpit for my Hobby Boss MiG-17 is about done. I stuck the control stick in for the pics but it needs some paint work to be finished. And, I still have the gunsight to complete but it will probably stay out until the plane is close to finished (I may do the same with the seat actually); the PE parts look mighty fragile to be banging around while doing the airframe. I used the Eduard color Zoom PE set, and scratch built a few other items. Meh, it never comes out as good I want, and I finally just rush a bit to reach a finished stage. Oh well, my consolation is that once in the aircraft, it'll not be subjected to such close scrutiny again, lol. Dang ol' macro setting just shows toooo many flaws!
Gary
"All you mugs need to get busy building, and post pics!"
Texgunner Well, I've finally got a little progress to report.
Well, I've finally got a little progress to report.
Hmmmmmm...I wonder if Fermis is gonna "drop a deuce" in here?
I just spotted him carousing with a french model...
On the bench: Airfix 1/72 Wildcat; Airfix 1/72 Vampire T11; Airfix 1/72 Fouga Magister
I got the dielectric panels on the tail fin, underside fin and the nose cone all masked and repainted last night with Medium Green and some spot painting done on the fuselage... I plan to shoot some Future on it tonight so I can begin the decals and postshading.
Here's the $65,000 question: Given that this was a 'client' aircraft, would it have had the factory stencil package? The Eagle Strike sheet shows no other markings than the national roundels and the bort number... and the few photos I can find don't show enough detail to tell. I have the stencil decals, just don't know whether to use them or not- I can't imagine that the Russians would have repainted all the stencils in Dari or Pashtu.
anyhow... seen outside, the green is still bright but not as bad as it looks under artificial lighting.
Was glaubst du?
That bright green should settle down a little under a little weathering-panel line-dullcoat anyway. Looking good. As far as the stencils go, were these machines built in the Soviet Motherland or subcontracted to a local production line?? Locals would have been more likely to apply their own stencils I suppose.
btw, I'm digging the painting jig! I do a lot more 1/72 than anything else - I often use one of those cardboard coffee trays. Up or down position, some dimples in the middle & slots in the spot where the cup actually rides to secure the tailfin with.
Vance, as far as I can tell they were transferred to the Afghani AF some time after the invasion.. in a literate country I could see indigenous stenciling, but for this time, era and place... not so much.
I'm not too worried about toning that green down as I'm starting to dig it a little more each passing day. I had thought that I'd really pooched it at first, but now... it works. From what I remember of the country and its citizens of that era, it certainly is appropriate. After all, the Taliban had a blue and yellow T-55...
Yeah, that box has helped me safely paint this thing without dropping it or leaving too many fingerprints on it. It's hard to keep the kitties out of it though... nothing like taking it to the paint table with cat hair still attached.
Just say no to the stencils...
That's pretty much what I'm convincing myself to do... just wanted to bounce the thought around a bit and see what y'all had to say.
Ahhh - if they were transferred, I expect the stencils would have been over-painted, certainly on the topside. Underside & anything "interior" may have been left alone though.
If leaving stencils off will speed you mugs up on your builds I'm all for it...
By Zeus' beard I'm working as a fast as I can and still remain employed...
Man, I hate it when "the job" slows things down. Employment is over-rated. How big is your stash?!?!?
Too damned big... not that I'm complaining (too much) as I've transformed my retirement savings into tangible plastic assets... Employment is overrated, but so is starving. I need to start thinking about 'the next build'...
Ahhhh - the next build, the elusive & exciting holy grail of modeling, the promise of un-spoiled styrene. Another Flanker?
I'm thinking ... Flogger ... to keep it in line with the Year of Soviet Aviation.
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