dude_gan_ainm Posted June 2, 2015 Share Posted June 2, 2015 (edited) Hi guys, heres my first RFI on Britmodeller which I finished a few months ago.Its the old 1/72nd KP Models kit depicting a Polish Air Force machine I saw outside the "car park" area of the Polish Aviation Museum in Krakow a couple of years ago.Raised panel lines were removed & rescribed,riveted in parts.Airbrakes cut out & replaced by scratch thin metal/plastic/Milliput & Albian Alloys tube.Cockpit detailed a bit with scratch bits & canopy fogged by accident but restored to reasonable visability for the scene & inside has a thin coat of Tamiya Smoke.All gear doors replaced by scratched plastic sheet & nosedoors by thin metal sheet.Doors detailed with copper wire & a tyre punctured & shaped with Mr. Surfacer.Droptanks modified with milliput & reshaped a little.Canon made from Milliput worm.Pitot tube replaced by brass tube.Painted using Tamiya acrylics except for a little Humbrol Metalcote on a bit of the canon.I tried a few new techniques to me like salt weathering on the tops of wings & tailplanes (a little overdone) & hairspray technique on the fuselage,fin & droptanks.Insignia & codes were painted & hairspray tech. used again. The base was scratchbuilt using plastic sheet.Halfords grey undercoat spray & pastels.Weeds are made with static grass,paper & real moss.Chock made from paper. Cheers for looking, Jimbob. Edited June 2, 2015 by dude_gan_ainm 21 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dennis_C Posted June 2, 2015 Share Posted June 2, 2015 Wow! That's so realistic!!! Exactly how poorly maintained museum machines look like! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pawel Szczudlyk Posted June 2, 2015 Share Posted June 2, 2015 Looks like a gate keeper Graet weathering Cheers 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jean Posted June 2, 2015 Share Posted June 2, 2015 Excellent weathering indeed! I am not a great fan of wrecks, but yours is very effective! Congrats JR 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Duncan B Posted June 2, 2015 Share Posted June 2, 2015 That is very good, I really like the worn national markings. Duncan B 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Carius Posted June 2, 2015 Share Posted June 2, 2015 Excellent job! Great weathering. Cheers 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
batcode Posted June 2, 2015 Share Posted June 2, 2015 very nice and superb job on the weathering ... 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alex_stela Posted June 2, 2015 Share Posted June 2, 2015 (edited) Very good idea and great job! I found a picture of this aircraft from 2004 and I can see that your model is very close to it! http://www.airport-data.com/images/aircraft/small/000/985/985593.jpg This SBLiM-2 (Polish made version of MiG-15UTI) was send to Denmark few years ago. Edited June 2, 2015 by alex_stela 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dude_gan_ainm Posted June 6, 2015 Author Share Posted June 6, 2015 Thank you guys for all the good comments & Alex_Stela for the photo & update.I visted Krakow in 2010 & it was a little worse by then but I also used some artistic licence on the build.I see its in Karup airbase & they refurbished it as a single seater '346' to represent a Polish one that defected to Denmark many years ago.Heres a link to a photo from last year. https://m.flickr.com/photos/shanair/14996930701/ I built the model for a group build on another forum,the main objective was to get people weathering a Russian built or designed model.This was the only Russian kit in my stash.I learned lots of new stuff doing it.The build thread is here for anyone interested http://irishscalemodeller.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=78&t=1224(if this thread from another forum isn't allowed I'll remove it). Cheerio, Jimbob. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Niles Posted June 6, 2015 Share Posted June 6, 2015 Oh my god... that is amazing. All that's missing are weeds growing out of the tailpipe. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spiton Posted June 7, 2015 Share Posted June 7, 2015 Fantastic !! Looks like real ! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WildeSau75 Posted June 8, 2015 Share Posted June 8, 2015 Very cool rendition of a plane which had it's best days. Realistic Look you achieved here. Congrats. Michael 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
James G Posted June 8, 2015 Share Posted June 8, 2015 Nice, great weathering! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dude_gan_ainm Posted June 13, 2015 Author Share Posted June 13, 2015 Thank you Niles, Sebastian,Micheal & James.Very kind words. Jimbob. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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