jrlx Posted August 22, 2017 Author Share Posted August 22, 2017 2 hours ago, Antoine said: Highly interesting, Jaime, thanks. I've plans to do this myself with the same kit one of these days. Maybe a double/comparison build, together with a Trumpeter -29. Thank you, Antoine! That comparison would be interesting to see. I'd like to build one of the new Trumpeter 29s myself. Cheers Jaime Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
exdraken Posted August 22, 2017 Share Posted August 22, 2017 Great, bug not the easiest work! Wow, all that resin! Hope all the effort pays off in the end! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jrlx Posted August 22, 2017 Author Share Posted August 22, 2017 1 hour ago, exdraken said: Great, bug not the easiest work! Wow, all that resin! Hope all the effort pays off in the end! Hi exdraken, thank your for your interest and support! I too hope it all ends well. This is my first big resin project. Before this one I only had used resin for exhausts is WWII aircraft. Cheers Jaime 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jrlx Posted August 22, 2017 Author Share Posted August 22, 2017 Hi again, This post makes thread up to date with the work done till now. Early in August I received a set of static dischargers for MiG aircraft: IMAG4888 They are really tiny metal bits. The following picture show them in detail. Note that the yellow lines on the cutting matt are 1 cm apart: IMAG4889 The dischargers are installed on the tips of the wings (2 each), horizontal stabilisers (2 each) and on the top of each rudder. To determine the exact position on the wings and stabilisers, I downloaded a schematic diagram of the aircraft from the net and did a few calculations: IMAG4890 Next, I marked the dischargers' positions on the stabilisers: IMAG4891 and on the wings: IMAG4892 I didn't have time to proceed any further, since I was about to start my holidays. I only did a test fit of the fuselage and wings: IMAG4893 Probably a bit of filler will be needed on the wing roots but nothing too out of the ordinary. So, this is now up to date and I'm away from the bench till the end of the month. Thanks for looking Jaime 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trickyrich Posted August 24, 2017 Share Posted August 24, 2017 WOW!! You have been very busy. Really nice work you're doing here and in 1/72nd scale as well. Those Static Discharges are tiny, hopefully you've hidden them from the carpet monster?? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jrlx Posted August 24, 2017 Author Share Posted August 24, 2017 Thanks for the kind words, Rich! Fortunately I don't have a carpet on my modelling room but just to be sure, I'm keeping all small parts in the original packaging. Cheers Jaime Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hook Posted August 28, 2017 Share Posted August 28, 2017 Nice work once again! Cheers, Andre 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jrlx Posted August 28, 2017 Author Share Posted August 28, 2017 26 minutes ago, Hook said: Nice work once again! Cheers, Andre Thank you Andre, very kind! Cheers Jaime Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jrlx Posted September 3, 2017 Author Share Posted September 3, 2017 While away from the bench, due to holidays, I've been researching the colours to use. Apparently each kit manufacturer has its own ideas about the correct colours. I've compared the colours in Italeri's, Trumpter's and Eduard's instructions, have looked at a lot of pictures and finally settled for the following colours (mainly aligned with Eduard's, as I'm using Gunze paints, but with a few corrections from pictures). All paint references are Gunze acrylics (H...) or Alclad II (ALC-...) Interiors: H308 Grey FS36375 Cockpit Instrument panel Canopy Airbrakes Wheel wells Wheel doors Interiors: H12 Flat Black Ejection seat Instrument panel cowling HUD Interiors: H319 Light Green Electronics bays (except the electronics boxes and cabling) Exhausts: ALC-115 Polished Steel Compressor faces Exterior and interior of tubing behind the exhaust petals Exhausts: ALC-113 Jet Exhaust Exterior and interior of exhaust petals Exhausts: H319 Light Green Flame olders Landing gear: Legs: H308 Grey FS36375 Oleos: ALC-107 Chrome Wheel Hubs: H319 Light Green Tires: H77 Tire Black Exterior details: H305 Grey FS36118 Nose cone Dielectric panels Tips of tail fins Exterior details: H12 Flat Black Anti-glare strip (between nose cone and wind shield) Exterior details: ALC-107 Chrome Pitot tube and probes Camouflage: Light colour: H324 Light Grey Dark colour: 80% H325 (Grey FS26440) + 20% H320 (Dark Green) Hope this is helpful but feel free to rectify any errors. Cheers Jaime 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trickyrich Posted September 3, 2017 Share Posted September 3, 2017 nice bit of research there Jamie, I found the same thing, nobody really seemed to agree on what colours to use. They all varied slightly and as you mentioned each manufacture had their own idea on the colour or shade of colour to use. Not help either by the variation in shades of the same colour between paint manufactures! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jrlx Posted September 17, 2017 Author Share Posted September 17, 2017 Hi again, This is an update with work done in the previous two weeks, since I returned home after my Summer holidays. I haven't had much time to post updates since and I've been working very slowly. The first thing I did was cutting the inserts for the static dischargers. Here is one of the metal pieces next to the wing tip: IMAG4909 The insert on the wing tip was cut out with a nº 11 blade: IMAG4911 Next I cut the inserts inboard of the wing tips. Here we see the two wings with both inserts already cut: IMAG4913 The metal piece is just placed on the wing tip insert but not yet glued in place: IMAG4914 Here it is just inserted into the slot: IMAG4915 The inserts on the horizontal stabilisers were also cut out with a nº 11 blade: IMAG4916 The metal piece was inserted into the slots, to check that the depth and width of the cuts were ok: IMAG4917 IMAG4918 The vertical fins were cut off the sprues and cleaned of flash: IMAG4933 There are static dischargers on the tops of the rudders. So, inserts were cut out there as well: IMAG4934 IMAG4936 I'm not sure what will I do to replicate the elaborately looking antenna that exists on the starboard fin: http://www.team-bhp.com/forum/attachments/commercial-vehicles/1401433d1439067797-mig-29-fulcrum-balance-rests-us-tail_detail.jpg Having done all the inserts for the static dischargers, I moved on to cutting all the parts related to landing gears, wheels and wheel well doors off the sprues . First, the main gear legs were cut off and cleaned of moulding marks. Here we see one of the legs cleaned (on the right) and the other just removed from the sprue: IMAG4937 IMAG4938 I had to apply a bit of Perfect Plastic Putty (PPP) to fill in an ejector mark on one of the legs: IMAG4939 After drying for one day, I removed the excess with wet sand paper, which took off almost all putty: IMAG4940 The nose landing gear parts (the two on the left) and two parts that open the main landing gear doors were also removed from the sprues and cleaned: IMAG4941 The wheel well doors were all cut off the sprues and cleaned from flash: IMAG4942 The nose and main wheels were taken care of next. There were some nasty ejector marks that were filled with PPP and left to dry: IMAG4943 Finally, I removed the main intake parts from the sprues and cleaned the flash. Here they're just joined together without glue or masking tape. There will be some visible seams to take care of: IMAG4944 I'll have to make FOD covers from plasticard sheets, as there's no inner detail or engine compressors to be seen. I'm running out of time to finish the model until 1 October. During weekdays I have very little time available for modelling (only late at night) and I'm very tired then to do any challenging work. Only on weekends have I a bit more time but there's just two more until the GB's end date. I'll do what I can till then. Additionally, I'm very busy running the Flying boats and Floatplanes GB as host right now. Thanks for looking. Cheers Jaime 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
helium Posted September 18, 2017 Share Posted September 18, 2017 That's some awesome work with the static dischargers you are doing Jaime! 👏 (I so far hesitated ordering a set for a SU-27: I thought I could never manage to drill a hole for them to fit in. Seeing your method of cutting a tiny slit now convinced me to buy them and try it myself 😀) cheers holger 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jrlx Posted September 19, 2017 Author Share Posted September 19, 2017 Thanks, holger, for the very kind words! In this case the trailing edges of wings and fins aren't thick enough to drill the holes, so I opted for the slits. By the way, I also have a few sets of Su-27 dischargers for my future Flanker builds Cheers Jaime Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
delis Posted September 19, 2017 Share Posted September 19, 2017 Very detailed report of the build. Thanks a lot for such a nice work. looking forward to see how this build will evolve. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jrlx Posted September 19, 2017 Author Share Posted September 19, 2017 Thank you very much for your interest, delis! I'm running out of time to finish the build in the time frame of the GB but I'll keep going on, regardless. Cheers Jaime 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jrlx Posted September 19, 2017 Author Share Posted September 19, 2017 Hi again, Just a small update. Last night I managed to cut the bigger missiles (R-27 missiles, I think) off the sprues and cleaned them of moulding marks. Here they are, the one closer to view already cleaned: IMAG4945 That's all for now. Hopefully I'll take care of the four R-73 missiles and the six ejection racks tonight. Cheers Jaime 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jrlx Posted September 20, 2017 Author Share Posted September 20, 2017 Hi again, Last night I managed to take care of the R-73 missiles and pylons/ejector racks as planned. Starting with the missiles, I removed them from the sprues and cleaned the moulding lines. Here we see one just off the sprue and the other already cleaned: IMAG4946 The ejector racks were trickier to deal with. As shown in the following two pictures, there was a misalignment of the two halves of the mould resulting in a step between the two halves of the parts along the vertical plane. I had to use a combination of nº 11 blade and a flat file to remove the steps. The part closer to view in the pictures is already treated: IMAG4947 IMAG4948 Finally, here are all the missiles: IMAG4949 I still have to take care of the ejector marks on the sides of the missiles. I'll use diluted Squadron's white putty, applied with a brush, as the Perfect Plastic Putty tends to let itself completely removed by wet & dry: IMAG4950 Here are all the pylons/ejector racks ready: IMAG4951 The excess PPP applied on the ejector marks on the wheels was removed with wet & dry and, as said above, I had to be careful not to completely remove PPP, as it seems to have very low adherence. I think I'll have another go at the marks with Squadron's putty this time, just to make sure, before priming the parts: IMAG4952 That's all for the moment. Thanks for looking. Cheers Jaime Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
exdraken Posted September 20, 2017 Share Posted September 20, 2017 Nice work! Just a comment on the missiles: If you want to go for accuracy, the 4 smaller missiles loosely resemble R-60s., not R-73. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jrlx Posted September 20, 2017 Author Share Posted September 20, 2017 Thanks for the kind words, exdraken. You're probably right regarding the missiles. I'm no expert on soviet weaponry, I may have misidentified them in Wikipedia. Cheers Jaime Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trickyrich Posted September 21, 2017 Share Posted September 21, 2017 you have been busy with the fine stuff......those static discharges look great, but I hope they gave you plenty of spares? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jrlx Posted September 21, 2017 Author Share Posted September 21, 2017 Thanks for looking, Rich! I bought a few sets of dischargers for MiGs. Each comes with 14 parts. I'll need 10 for this MiG-29 but I already bent 2 while checking the slit sizes... Cheers Jaime Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jrlx Posted September 27, 2017 Author Share Posted September 27, 2017 Hi again, I'm falling behind in my updates, so here is a new one, with work done last week. I'm working slowly as usual and don't have much time available for modelling (and when I have, I may not have the energy...). So, I won't finish the build till Sunday but I'll keep working on it till it's finished past the date. Anyway, I proceeded the work by dealing with the ejector marks on the missiles. This time I used diluted Squadron White Putty, applied with a nº 1 detail brush: IMAG4953 IMAG4954 I also applied the diluted putty to the ejector marks on the wheels, as I wasn't sure the PPP had been effective: IMAG4955 Next, I sawed the canopy and wind shield off the sprue, using a micro-saw: IMAG4956 The stubs and flash were removed with a nº 11 blade, followed by sanding and polishing with sanding sticks: IMAG4957 Unfortunately, I wasn't careful enough and damaged the interior face of the transparent area of the wind shield with the nº 11 blade, just next to the rim. To solve this, I started by sanding the damaged area with successively finer grits of wet & dry sand paper (without water), resulting in this: IMAG4958 After two complete cycles of sanding with my set of micromesh pads, I achieved this: IMAG4959 The other transparent parts were also removed from the sprue and cleaned of flash: IMAG4961 All transparent parts were, then, washed in warm water with dishwasher detergent and left to dry overnight. Thanks for looking. Jaime 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
helium Posted September 28, 2017 Share Posted September 28, 2017 Excellent work on the canopies Jaime! Amazing to see the difference between the photo of the front canopy with the sprue connection (sorry, but I don't know how to call that in English, I am referring to photo IMAG4956) and the later ones without it!! As if it was never there 😄 Cheers Holger 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jrlx Posted September 28, 2017 Author Share Posted September 28, 2017 Hi Holger, Thank you very much for your interest and very kind words. I still have to post several pictures to update the thread with all the work done. However, I show here how the canopy and wind shield are right now, after a bath of Alcald Aqua Gloss: IMAG4999 I think the transparency and brilliance is much better. Cheers Jaime Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trickyrich Posted September 29, 2017 Share Posted September 29, 2017 Nice work on the canopy Jamie and a nice save on it as well. It's perfectly understandable if you don't make it in time, it's best not to rush things. Look forward to future updates as they come. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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