albertz

Hello Folks, Clearing my stash of 'poor choice' kits bought of ebay years ago, this one is italeri's 1/48 flogger D, raised panel lines, poor detail and bad fit made for a frustrating build, but i made a rod for my own back when i decided to paint it in colours of No.12 squadron SLAF based at katunayake, no decals available so had to hand paint the lot which did my nut in! Must investigate these 'printable decal sheets' ive heard about. I think i also need to plan my build sequence better as i tend to rush at the end meaning things like undercarriage etc don't get the attention they deserve, anyway here it is, Aires interior, exterior & FOD etched kits were also used, ladder nicked from an old SU22

Inkjet printer?? How did you do that?

Machine!

Now thats a beauty!

No, had to cut the nose and engine panel out, wing fold detail is straight out of the box, scratchbuilding? With my hands?

Thanks gents, yes its a tamiya kit, with CM cockpit, enginebay and radar add ons, i still have not mastered realistic metals, i have alclads, but they've never worked for me, canopys also! always a bugbear!

Hello Chaps, just finished this 1/48 skyray, my modelling efforts have dropped off since new job takes me away from home, so making the most of january off. A bit glad to see it finished to be honest, was fed up of it by the end!

That was the idea, but ive no idea if this would happen or not, another drunken moddeling idea im afraid!

Beautiful! Love the Flagon, such a sleek cold war fighter

Beautiful! well done sir!

Eh? Are they designed to be detached and recovered? looks like a chute packed on the front??

excuse my ignorance, but what on earth are those two items on the outer hardpoints?

Thank you all, you're too kind, im a hack at best!!

Hello chaps, Been ages since i've been on here, new job means i work away from home alot, a sad consequence is i get very little time to model : ( So this one was started way last year, its a Hobbyboss 1/48 A-10a, while looking for pics, stumbled on the story of Kim Campbels A-10 which was suffered battle damage on a mission over baghdad on the 7th April 2003, once hit the aircraft lost hydraulics and had to be reverted to fly back manually. Lucky escape indeed! So decided to try modeling this aircraft post damage, problem is the decals were not avialable, so alot of fidley hand painting with squinted eyes and tongue poking out was required! Not my best, and happy to see the back of it! Kit not great either, especially the engines which were poorly modelled. Anyway here it is along with the aircraft itself.

im happy to model it as in the pictures since it will be damaged, canopy open etc as in pics, Hobbyboss kits loadout weapons not very good anyway, even the remaining pod is going to need additional plastic to look like the pod in question

cracking! thanks for the info

Hello peeps, trying to render kim campbells a-10 from iraqi freedom, aircraft was damaged by enemy fire and she had to revert the aircraft to fly it back, im having trouble identifying the loadout though, it looks like all of the pylons are empty except for the outboard pylon on the left wing, which looks like some sort of ECM pod plus something with a green cover over it? Can any of you good people identify it?

Nice model,..terrible aircraft, yeah its hard to see how weathered those yaks could get just flying to the foremast and back..

The very same!

Appologies, its a 1/48 Academy, the polish version with the fish on the side?

Havent been here in a while, change of job means i don't get to model as much as i'd like, but i did manage to squeeze in this colourful fella. Mig 21 MF, 11th Fighter Regiment, Czech Air Force, Zatec, 1993. Colour scheme is courtesy of Czech masters upgrade kit, not sure what the livery is for, don't read czech, but it looks good.

Nice! ive been tempted by this model..dont they call it the fore-mast defence fighter? because thats about as far as it can fly?

well done, extremely clean looking cockpit which isnt easy

Beautiful! will have to keep an eye out for these.

You've lost me there, do you mean the FOD covers in red? Yeah i knew id gotten that wrong confused S-25 with pics of KH-25 on google search, once discovered was too late