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I've got a Fitter coming up, after I get that Flanker finished up.
On the bench: Airfix 1/72 Wildcat; Airfix 1/72 Vampire T11; Airfix 1/72 Fouga Magister
According to my Chinese Calendar, it is the "Year of the Flogger"....
Nope, Year of Soviet Aviation for me: MiG-3, Yak-18, Flankers, Fishbed and Frogfoot all saw some bench time.
So, Flogger anyone?
Is that Flanker in 32nd scale? That is a BIG Russian jet...
WOW!! Yeah, my "local-ist" LHS has a 1/32 Flanker he was tempting me with last time I was in, but I don't have a sweet clue where I'd put something that big.
Great looking aircraft, Dean27. I love that converted Flanker. Did you have any issues getting the nose cone to play nice with the rest of the fuselage? I'm going to have to heavily reshape one of mine to fit the contours of the mating surface.
Vance, go ahead and buy one.... you know you want to.
I found this pic while looking for something else online and now I want to do up a MiG-17 like this one...
from this website.. http://aviationtrivia.blogspot.com/2010_11_01_archive.html
Cool - is that the infamous defector aircraft? 1/32 Flanker... want one - uhh, yes!!! There's no way of sneaking that box into the house inside my jacket though! ;)
It's apparently one of a few defector AC that we borrowed from Israel back in the day. Squadron has the 1/32 Trumpy MiG-17 kits for 20 bucks and change right now... good price point for a relatively plain kit that needs some AM loving.
No, there's no way to sneak that box into the house unseen- the Su-30MKK box is even larger than the Su-27 boxes but the bulk of what's inside is the endless sprues of Russian weapons. In that regard those are value-added kits just because you get more weapons than you'll ever need- I have about 3 cubic feet of Trumpeter weapons sprues now.
What's with all this sneakin' kits into houses???
Manstein's revenge What's with all this sneakin' kits into houses???
Sneaking kits into houses, well, uhhhhhhhh look - a nickel!!! ------------->
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I, for one, do not sneak my kits into the house- I walk tall and proud with them in my arms like a beloved child.
Hi Dre no I did not have many problems with the nose, I did remove it and lengthen it by 1cm approximately but the hardest part was reshaping the whole front fuselage it took about 4 weeks of sanding and using filler it became a damn nightmare but I believe it worked out well. I used plastic card and filler only for the whole conversion. To be honest the model for the most part has no real fit issues, nothing more than you would expect from a kit.
Wasn't somebody in here asking about North Korean MiG29s??
The North Korean Mig-29 featured on the sheet is "553". This sheet only became possible after good quality photos of the aircraft became public after the new North Korean leader Kim Jong-Eun's visit to the air base housing a Mig-29 unit. The Korean inscription near the cockpit gives the dates that this particular aircraft was inspected by late North Korean leaders Kim Jong-Il and Kim-Il Sung. We believe these are the first and only accurate decals for an operational North Korean Mig-29.
The Iranian examples are Mig-29 no. 3-6133 and Mig-29UB no.6305; both of which were photographed with a large eagle's head tail art during 2011.
The decals are designed to fit the 1/48 Academy Mig-29 kit. Full color painting instructions with color code suggestions are included. This decal sheet is professionally silk screen printed in the Czech Republic.
Speaking of decals.. I started to put the Afghani national insignia on the MiG last night.. 6 white paint decals, followed tonight by the 6 red stars and ring and then 6 more green ring decals. Why not print them as one decal? Sheesh... 8 markings = 20 decals.
That N. Korean scheme looks .. challenging.
The primary reason some companies "break-up" a complicated marking into several decals that you have to "build" by layer is because of registration problems in the printing process...allowing you to build them eliminates off-register decals but can be a PITA to apply...
True dat, but it allows me to make them out of register or distort them in the process as they're really thin. I'm just grumbling because the design isn't complicated- red star on a white field surrounded by green, red and black rings and I could be finished with them and moving onto the next stage by tonight.
The white layer could be a little thicker as a base color, there's just a hint of bleed-through... but it probably won't be as noticeable once I get the rest of the design laid on.
This being the decal work of which I spoke of yesterday...
I'm going to touch-up some of the decals with paint as some had minor tears and a little creeping shrinkage from the SolvaSet... hairline white lines appeared between the black and red rings. I'll get the final green rings put on tonight and possibly the two aircraft numbers on the nose, but they might require a little surgery to fit around the two instrument probes in that area.
Get all that done I can begin weathering this turd...
At least you aren't layering dry transfers!
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