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Thanks exdraken.... Glad you liked it. Antonio Thanks Matteo44

God day colleagues... Now, it's time to show the work done on the forward lifting turbines hatches. The turbines has to hatches, above the fuselage to let the airflow in and under the fuselage to let the jets exhaust. First we paint and weathered the inner side using grey and darker tones of gray with sand and smoke pigments The other side (outer side) is treated as I did with the rest of the fuselage. Sand Brown and green coloer with tones variations of the same basic three colors plus dust pigments to show desert operational conditions. In the case of the lower hatches, I choose to remove the detail in the inner part and remaque the detail using aluminium foil and adding two scratched door actuators. The outside part I continue the same proccess as with the rest of the fuselage pieces. The difference though was that I didn't do the lights of the upper side of the fuselage. Once this pieces were glued in place and I weathered the area (jet exhaust and smoke mainly) this is the final result of the loewr part of the lifting turbines. Another view of the aircraft with the upper hatch open and the gun pods painted in silver... and the rockets pods too... In both sides of the fuselage I made the weathering as the forger was a tank.... using oil paints... the difference is the mix... in the top fuselage I used more light brown and yellow colors, meanwhile in the other side I use more black and blue colors. Final results.... Final shots in IPMS Venezuela 2017 event. The "studio" pictures of the forger can we seen in the forum's section "Ready for inspection" or follow this link http://www.britmodeller.com/forums/index.php?/topic/235018233-yakolev-yak-38-forger-in-afghanistan-hobbyboss-148/#comment-2661939 Thank you for watching and for your nice comments on this WIP. See you soon Cheers Antonio

Good afternoon my fellow modelers, I've being away from this WIP due to the political crisis happening in my country, Venezuela. Finnally I have sometime to sit and write this lines that transport me to my happyplace, modelling. Enought of this.... last time I wrote I was showing little improvements on the forger's fuselage... now it's time for the paint... As you all remenber this is the scheme I plan to adopt on my forger. Due to a mishap in the Trumpeter/hobbyboss factory planners the forgot to include the last two views of the scheme so, with the use of a few (very few) pictures, I tryed to complete the hole scheme. One of the problems that I had was to choose the right colors... instructions are worthless, internet told me to get a russian brand but in most of the WIP I saw, the colors didn't feel right... so I start to improvise and mix different colors to get the tones I needed. The base color is applied I used variatons in the color to simulate weathering. I never used black or white. Lights and Shadows were made using mixtures with different tones of yellows. Same proccess was used with bronwnish and greenish colors. Some Clear from Tamiya... I forgot to tell you that all the color used were ModelColor from Vallejo, applied with Airbrush... All that lefts is let it dry and apply decals.... Hope you did enjoy it... next time...desert weathering... Thanks for stopping by... Cheers Antonio

Do it!!! It's a nice aircraft and a very unique subject in aviation history.. Greetings Antonio

Thanks Vulture. It's really a good kit, it has minor issues but overall a good kit. Greetings Antonio

Thank you Goose.... I though so... I like to build strange and peculiar looking aircraft and schemes. Greetings Antonio

Thanks Man... Yes they were for a short period for testing in high and hot war environments. At the end It was successfull but it was short on range and payload capacity. Greetings Antonio

Let's continue with this work, it's time to finish little things in the fuselage in order to be ready for painting... You may notice I cut out the flaps because I intend to put them in the deployed position as the real aircraft does it when it settle exhaust into vertical takeoff position... Now the last thing is the only pain in the bottom part of the assembly the exhaust covers... That's all for now... next time... painting Greetings and thanks for follow this WIP. Antonio

Many thanks F-32. Greetings Antonio

You're too kind Jaffaand Vadim. Greetings Antonio Me too Marc... I love seventies aircrafts... specially russians... they look cool and retro.... Greetings Antonio

According my search I found two types of camouflage Forgers... one all aroung camouflage and another pretty much like the Navy standard...

Thanks folks... Antonio

Thanks Udo. I hope It doesn't!!! Greetings Antonio

I though so... for a change..

Hi Guys, Here you go the last pictures of my Yakolev Yak-38 Forger or "Harrierski" as it was deployed in Afghanistan in the 80's. You may also look for it in the "Work In Progress" section of the Aviation Forums or clicking at this link http://www.britmodeller.com/forums/index.php?/topic/235013202-yakolev-yak-38-forger-hobbyboss-148/#comment-2565902 Greetings Antonio