The In My Stash GB : Redux

I had the same issue with the Verlinden resin seat I dropped in my Flanker.  It was too tall to allow the canopy to close, so out came the Dremel and voila!

With a few exceptions (*cough* Ultracast *cough*), most resin replacements seem to need some massaging to fit, especially Aires.

Dupes, looking forward to seeing this come together.

Glad to see lots of you are getting a good start on this. 

AJB93, that Hood is going to look impressive   Are you building it OOTB? 

I hope to start on mine this weekend, I was hoping to start last weekend but I messed up on the kit I was trying to finish up so I spent the weekend doing some touch ups.  I did snip some parts from the sprue though so I have officially started.

Azgaron wrote:

AJB93, looking good so far! Arki, nice ACES II link. I usually go here when I need info on ejection seats. Azgaron

Like that site!  Here's another I sometimes use:

http://www.ejectionsite.com/

aj looking really good

man you guys are just chit chatting away arent you all !

Yep, we're just regular Chatty Cathys

Tony

TGregory wrote:

AJB, she looks smaller in the photos, How can you see the 1/700 details that you have to add. I have one 1/700 in the stash (can't remember which one) and truthfully, it scares the Bejesus out of me. Good work so far, you are a brave man. Tony

That's probably because the plans beneath her are 1/600 scale and the book is rather large ;)

How do I do it? Seven years experience and alot of patience- lot's of patience

Some great work up there.

Just a quick administrative note, guys:
I'm going to be taking down the voting system very soon to reduce
the volume of data I have stored on my server.  I have replaced it
with a single webpage that has a big image showing the vote results.
Same address, which we might as well make public now:

http://il2windhawk.com/FSM/IMS2/
This page will stay online for the duration of the build so you all can
check back to remember what your second and third-place kits were.

Here is a new path to the voting system, still online for a couple days:
http://il2windhawk.com/FSM/IMS2/index2.html
If you need anything from it (images, etc), download it immediately. 
I will be removing & deleting probably by week's end.

AJ great start. Ok guys I finished heres my completed Raptor.

 Thanks for the great GB Kenny and IL2 of course I'll stay here no matter what even after I'm done lol. About the kit I sprayed the whole plane Testors acryl light ghost gray and dark gull gray. The seam in the fusalage was a pain. The instructions didn't say but I put the missiles on the weapons rack. I looked it up and it was right I think. I tried my best with this kit and in my opinion it is one of the better of the one's I built. I'll try to do alot of kits on the voting list once again everyone thanks.

Jeez, Speedy!!  Quick finish!  Raptordriver, looks pretty good although you need some more lighting.  And is this from a camera phone because I can't figure out why your pictures always seem pixelated? 

Anyway, the paint work looks good .  I'll be honest and admit I don't know squat about the Raptor.  Wouldn't hanging ordnance off it wreak the stealth capabilities? 

Nice build! 

Arki, that was a nice ejection seat link too! I think I've seen it before, but missed out on bookmarking it, now I have

Raptordriver, very nice looking Raptor! Speedy build too!

Azgaron

Excellent and yes, very speedy work Raptordriver!  

Kenny, does he get an award for first one finshed??  Since we had a turtle award (whowon that by the way? ) doe that mean there is a Hare award?  Sounds awful though... maybe the flash award.  Okay its late and my brain shut down long time ago.  Goodnight!

Good work on the Raptor, Raptor. She looks stealthy that' why the photos appear the way they do. Stealh Technology.

Now get crackin' on the next one

Tony

Hey, nice Raptor. Had the same idea as Arki about all of that external ordinance lessening the stealth capabilities? Thought that's why they had the closeable bays. Would love to see some more pics if you manage to figure out that camera!

Mini-progress report - got a bunch of the Zoom set onto the kit seat, shown next to the True Details resin version:

I'm realllllllly liking this Zoom set...see more of them in my future!

great work on the raptor, raptor. holy cow raptor finished way faster than wing_nut did last year

dupes nice progress

good thing some of us are slow hee hee

TGregory wrote:

Good work on the Raptor, Raptor. She looks stealthy that' why the photos appear the way they do. Stealh Technology.

Ah, that explains it.  Camera has a hard time focusing on stealth planes. 

dupes wrote:

Hey, nice Raptor. Had the same idea as Arki about all of that external ordinance lessening the stealth capabilities? Thought that's why they had the closeable bays. Would love to see some more pics if you manage to figure out that camera! Mini-progress report - got a bunch of the Zoom set onto the kit seat, shown next to the True Details resin version: I'm realllllllly liking this Zoom set...see more of them in my future!

You know, Dupes, usually I prefer resin to the fussiness of PE, but I think the PE upgrades to the kit seat make a better presentation than the resin replacement in this case. 

Looks like some areas on the resin seat are more detailed and possibly more accurate, but who's gonna know the difference?

If that's the Color Zoom set, how are you going to paint the seat with all that draped over it?  Paint it anyway?  Just curious.

Heh...it's mostly just going to take a looooot of careful painting. I've been trying to dry fit the PE, figuring out what I need to paint before it gets glued on. The problem I'm going to have is matching the colors they used on the Zoom stuff for any places where the paint rubs off (it's not attached terribly well).

I agree about the resin seat, I think it more closely matches (accuracy-wise) the pics I've seen, but the PE sure is pretty swank-tacular.

Not saying it doesn't look like the ref pics, but you can only do so much when you're trying to convert an existing piece of plastic instead of starting from scratch. 

The zoom set, you mean? No, it's a small single fret of PE that comes pre-painted (wait 'til you see the IP!) so you can just drop everything in place. The problem I'm having now is attempting to match the rest of the cockpit to the colors on the PE, just like Arki mentioned above.

Anyone have a good link that provides some standard colors for Russian (or EGYPTIAN) aircraft? Tried the IPMS Stockholm color charts, but they have very limited data for the USSR...and nothing for Egypt. Going to need to find something, or make some good guesses on both the interior AND exterior.

Oh, ejection seat is done...hope to have the rest of the pit squared away soon. Hopeful update pic tomorrow.

dupes wrote:

Anyone have a good link that provides some standard colors for Russian (or EGYPTIAN) aircraft? Tried the IPMS Stockholm color charts, but they have very limited data for the USSR...and nothing for Egypt. Going to need to find something, or make some good guesses on both the interior AND exterior.

Well, the interior will be tough, but for exterior try these two sites.  I'll keep digging to see if I can find anything further.

http://racc.com.sapo.pt/

http://www.jpsmodell.de/dc/schemes/egyptaf_e.htm

Arki - think that should actually do it! That one link had some Humbrol references (of the exact scheme I'm looking at), which I was able to semi-cross check on the IPMS Stockholm site. Should be able to get something in the ballpark, anyway.

Ruddratt - Thanks! I don't think there's anything about the resin seat I don't like - it looks really good - other than the fact that I don't think it will fit in the finished 'pit. At least, not with a control stick ALSO crammed in there. The PE stuff does look pretty awesome, gives it some "3D depth" as opposed to all of the detail just being painted on. Eventually I'll have to use these seats for something, so long as I can find some more kits to cram them into.

Kind of hard to get PE work done while watching football (guess I'll start in on drop tanks and ordinance!) but I did manage to finish the seat. Couple of minor touchups, but this is probably the one I'm going to go with.

Still going to do up the resin one, see how it looks.

Arki - picked up a bunch of paint yesterday, we'll see how close I can get to being accurate with my hodge-podge of brands and color names.

The seat looks appropriately "busy" Dupes.    I'm sure you'll find another use for the extra resin seat. 

Since I doubt we have many Eygpt experts here (but I could be wrong), I'm thinking we wouldn't have the slightest clue whether or not your colors are accurate.