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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?
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
Hmmmmmm...I wonder if Fermis is gonna "drop a deuce" in here?
Texgunner Well, I've finally got a little progress to report.
Well, I've finally got a little progress to report.
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!"
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...
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.
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...
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...
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!
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
That's a nice looking MiG, Fermis. Another one done well.
Sweet---that MiG could have easily looked cartoonish w/ all of the garish markings but somehow you've pulled it off once again...!
Really nice work there, I am having trouble deciding which country to make my Mig 29 from. What are you making next?
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!
You're a harsh man Manstein you ever know my old Petty Officer Rowntree? You'd get on with him lol.
Enough with the excuses already---just do it and post pics...
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.
Sorry to hear that, Stik---hope all is well...drop in and visit if you can...
Manny, I am gonna have to drop out of this one. Some life issues have some up and once the current projects that I am working on are completed in the next few weeks I will not have time to start and complete my project for this GB by the deadline.
F is for FIRE, That burns down the whole town!
U is for URANIUM... BOMBS!
N is for NO SURVIVORS...
- Plankton
LSM
OK, fine- you keep him! <storms off to waste more time online>
No he can't...just sayin'...ya'll mugs need to get to work...
Dean27- you can also join the Flanker GB with that... just sayin'.
dean27 Is anyone making a Flanker of any sort? Even if not if any of you like this iconic fighter I will be making one around Christmas or thereafter as it's my favorite aircraft of all time. I saw this video so if you have not seen it and you like Russian planes its not to be missed. www.youtube.com/watch
Is anyone making a Flanker of any sort? Even if not if any of you like this iconic fighter I will be making one around Christmas or thereafter as it's my favorite aircraft of all time. I saw this video so if you have not seen it and you like Russian planes its not to be missed.
www.youtube.com/watch
Soon is now....
MM Olive Drab enamel followed by a blotchy, lightened additional coat. I probably don't lighten my secondary tones enough for a more visible modulation, but I'll know for certain once I pull all the tape off. A lighter, brighter green topside, the underside light blue and some spots of medium green left top do...
Manstein's revenge Ya'll mugs need to get to work---just sayin'...
Ya'll mugs need to get to work---just sayin'...
Soon herr feldmarschall, soon.
Okay yeah it does look cool so who cares why right? Just look at it.
Um... for the right amount of money that can be arranged. Just sayin'...
(from wikipedia) The MiG-29 is available for flights of civilian passengers. Civilian flights started due to financial problems on Gromov Flight Research Institute in the Russian city Zhukovsky. Those flights in Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-21, Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-23, Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-25, MiG-29 and Sukhoi Su-27 stopped in July 2006, when civilian flights in MiG-29 and Mikoyan MiG-31 started from Nizhny Novgorod.
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