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Thanks so much for the feedbacks guys! And here comes the back story. Another hidden air combat history during Vietnam War. “Old soldiers never die,they just fade away…” It was a big surprise to know that the air combat heroes, whose stories were read since my childhood on aviation magazines,live in the same city with me, Shanghai. All starts with an individual homemade documentary videos which I saw on TV coincidently. The old man introduced in the video, was a very famous PLA Navy fighter pilot, Mr. Zhushu WANG. I got his home telephone number by contacting the author of the video, and visited him on the afternoon of July 3,2010, with another two aviation enthuastists. Mr. Wang was in service in 6th Division 16th regiment of PLA Navy Air Force(known as PLANAF),and after the period they fight with Taiwan Air Force, his regiment was transparented from Fujian province sentinel airfield to Haikou airfield in Hainan Island with the beginning of Vietnam War, in order to intercept the US aircrafts intruded China from time to time. It was on June 26,1967.Mr.Wang,together with his wingman Mr.Jiliang Lv, shot down a USAF F-4C “Phantom”(63-7577, 390th TFS/366th TFW out of Da Nang, RVN) ,which intruded into China’s airspace over Lingshui, Hainan Island by their Chinese licensed produced MiG-19S,J-6s. Both “Phantom riders” were saved, while Mr. Wang and Mr. Lv were awarded by First-Class Merit citation. The prize was only a tiny honor note, a pen and a series of <Collected Works of Mao Tse-Tung>. Mr. Wang retired from PLANAF on 1988 and lives in Shanghai till now. When we visted him, he showed us many precious old pictures. Not only the Phantom shooting gun camera photo, but also many unique painting schemes of J-6s at that special period, the Cultural Revolution. At that period, the individual personality cult towards Mao Tse-Tung has arriven at the highest level,so even on military aircrafts, Mao’s hand writing style slogans. So that was the inspiration for me to make a “Phantom Killer” J-6, Mr.Wang’s “Red 21”. You can found the slogan which means “Serve the People” on the left side of the nose and “Must Destroy All Intruders” on the right side, and also “Long Live Chairman Mao” on the outside of both wing fences, together with some famous words from <Collected Works of Mao Tse-Tung>. The red star painted under the windshield on left side, was a kill mark for the “Phantom Killer”.

Thank you for your words, mates! I also feel it very meaningful to present it to a veteran pilot who has been so devoted for our country in his youth. I was lucky enough to have a J-6 displayed just behind my home so I studied it a lot. Plus Mr.WANG also tought me lots of knowledges about the plane. Believe it or not, though he's over 80 years old, his memory about the MiG-19 and the air battle is still so sharp and clear, just like yesterday's affairs. And all rivets are self made using the J-6 photos I took. Thanks again for watching! Cheers, Yufei

Wings and fins: Exhaust nozzles: Landing gears: Small details and air brakes: The pilot! Finally some more. Sent to Mr. WANG as a present. The old pilot is very satisfied with it. The memory book wrote by Phil Smith, another F-104 pilot who has been shot down and put in prison in China for over 7 years. Poor man, sad period... Finalle! Thank you for your watching and any comments or critiques are greatly welcome! Cheers, Yufei

Hi guys. I've been busy with daily work, wedding preparing, house decoration work and also my little brand Fairy Hobby affairs so really have not made models for a quite while. Now here to share with you buddies the last finished piece. Yes, the Chinese Farmer which shot down the USAF F-4C on June 26, 1967. This work has been published on the famous aircraft modelling magazine Air Modeller Vol. 34, and also on the Chinese magzine Model World issue August 2011. If you are interested about the story, here is the interview I made with the veteran pilot who shot down the F-4B, Zhushu WANG. Sorry only in simplified Chinese: [第一手资料帖]探访我们的战斗英雄（更新完） And if you are interested in the 1/48 Chinese pilot figure, check here: [FS] Fairy Hobby original aftermarket goods Here are some shots of the real plane, the very famous "Phantom Killer" in our childhood. And if you are looking for the in progress thread, it's right here: PLANAF Phantom Killer! 1/48 J-6 early batch(Chinese MiG-19S) So here we go the show time! Some detail shots. Nose area, borrowed from HiPM kit. Cockpit area:

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Some new pictures found, buddy! Enjoy!! And to Ian: I searched around my computer this weekend but found the in progress pictures were all deleted by my GF's mistake several months ago... Really sorry, guy... And this is how I sent it to Tokyo, Yeah! :woot.gif: Thanks for watching! Cheers, Yufei

It's been a while since last update because I'm quite busy with my 1/48 Su-27 canopy issuing things. Now it's time to keep this bumped. :woot.gif: To be honest, I think myself a bit too serious but this time it came again. I just cannot resist that... The Replic decal is very wrong for this VFA-81 bird, which I have already realized when I appied them. But I have no backups so I had no choice but to use them. Now coincidentally I found Techmod's VFA-81 cheap and most important, available here so I just grab one set. The researching result of Techmod is so so (though much better than Replic ones), the elements I needed, the correct fonded "VFA-81" and black fonded "USS SARATOGA" were there. So I just replaced these two elements only. As for the others, wrong shaped Sunliner emblems and "AA" marks on tails, etc. Besides, the decal is THICK and does not affect with any mark softer I have... :bandhead2: Wrong fonded Replic "VFA-81", especially the letter "A" is totally wrong. "USS SARATOGA" should be in BLACK, not grey! Remove them by masking tapes. New decal applied, but you can see this time the colour is wrong! :bandhead2: Too dark, huh? Had no choice but to overspray it. Thanks for watching and more's coming! Cheers, Yufei

This big monster has been published on the March issue 2011 of the Japanese aircraft modelling magazine <Scale Aviation>. Now finally I can show it to you guys. It's the huge Amodel 1/72 kit, really a challenge to build, but the archivement made me satisfied very much. Photos are all taken by Art Box staff in Tokyo Japan. Yes, I did send this monster to Tokyo from Shanghai by Fedex!! First comes some natural daylight shots. Enjoy!! More to come later! Yufei

Thank you for your nice feedbacks guys! Of course no problem! My honor! I'm now preparing for the flight deck diorama so will keep you guys updated later. Cheers, Yufei

Foxbat defected to Japan AGAIN!! Please check Air Modeller Vol. 38 or Scale Aviation November issue, 2011!

Landing gears and white stuff got painted and weathered with dark brown or brownish black enamel colours again. Wheel bays. I did not spend time detailing it because it's not very visible after finishing. Landing gears. The lamp was made by ELF landing lamp detail set. Extremely recommended! I firsly planned to use Aires resin nozzles indicated for Academy kit but found it way too small in section! So I gave up and consentrated myself to detail the original plastic parts. First, make the patels look thin. Next, add EVERGREEN 0.13mm plastic card to make the inner patels. Then painted and weathered. Caution: Speicher's F/A-18C is an early C model so it still used GE F-404-GE-400 engines but not F-404-GE-402 ones. So the inner material is not white! Chaff dispenser launchers need to be drilled 0.3mm holes. The AIM-9L/M Sidewinders. The original fins of kit parts are way too thick so I replaced them with myself cut 0.2mm new fins. Painted. Notice the different metal material and seeking head. All weapons painted and washed. Some small area of the main body need some attached painting. Stabilizers are made movable by placing a ring inside the fuselage. Early C models do not have nit alike antennas but more like fins. Hand brush Mr. Hobby Gloss clear on the light surface. Navigation lamp replicated by melt clear plastic runner. Final attach! Finish! More photos coming next! Thanks for watching. :salute: Yufei

Then attach some antenna things into white. Three antennas on this VFA-81 Hornet are all straight vertical ones, as photos indicated. Radome colour sprayed. Painting is finished. Wash the plane with brown+medium grey enamel colour. And add the dirty area with sevral kinds of brown enamel colour. The exhaust weathering effect was made by pastel. The oil dirts also. Then after all dirty things you added, spray a flat coating to protect the effect. Some metal area brush painted after washing and coating, in order to save the metal effect most perfectly.

Fianlly I found some time to update my thread here so here ya go! I sprayed Mr. Surfacer #1200 firstly and sand the surface with #2000 fine sanding paper. Then wash it with the help of a child use toothbrush. Because the main colour of Hornet is grey, I sprayed another white surfacer to help the grey looks right. I used GSI Croes Mr. Color for painting. C307 and C308 has been sprayed upper and lower surface, just as indicated in NAVY painting rules. Arrest hook also painted with C307 and C308. Then spray C305 for post shadow, just releax. You'll have tons of time to play with several kinds of grey now on. C308 sprayed again but this time just aiming the panel lines which have been coloured C305 one step before. The reattached/repainted colour is a mix of C323+C308+White, ratio is up to your flavour buddy. Spray another C308+White+Brown(extremely little), to overspray the whole plane to make the repainted area more gentle. Apply the walking area decal, and spray the colour which you used last step to make a worn out effect. By the way, the decal in Academy Hornet(not Cartograf printed) is quite nice indeed! What a surprise!!

Some progress here. Seems US birds not so welcome in a Western forum? Because it's a shot down one? The "air wirer" slice on the windscreen. I rescribe the line and put some putty to make the bulge. Airbrakes off, and you need to put 0.3mm plastic card inside to avoid gap. IFF antennas way too think. Rivets also added. Academy make the landing tail hook a total rounded one but actually some area should be flat rounded. I used a vise to flatten the area. Some cusions and release structures need scratchbuilding. Lowered flaps do not fit quite well with the original plastic wing parts. So adhere some putty and rubbing the surface by a Q tip with Alchol when putty is 70% dried. Fill the injection holes. HARM pylons from Academy 1/72 F-16C kit, and a bit modification to fit Hornet's pylons. Drill holes for all missiles. The standard SEAD mission weapon set for VFA-81 on the night of January 17th, 1991. AIM-9L*2，AIM-7*1，HARM*2, FLIR*1, fuel tanks*1 HARMs are from Academy F-16 kit, too and special thanks to my friend for his selfless help! Now here comes the problem of this kit. How big? It depends on you. Note the angel of the real plane from side profile. This is Academy one. Too close to right triangled. I replaced the main landing gears with Italeri 1/72 F/A-18E/F ones because they are cheap enough and according to my study, they were made according to C/D gears but not E/F ones. If you think it's so so for you to take from side prifile, then take this view from front. The Academy gears are almost vertical to the ground and it totally ruins the look of Hornet. This is Italeri ones. Choosing some details added. The landing gear lamp is from the Belussian brand ELF and it's terrific! Insert wet tissue paper inside the intake pipes for masking usage. And we are ready to paint buddy~ Thanks for looking! Yufei

Thank you all for your feedbacks, dude! I mistyped 3mm to 30mm so actually the seat was heightened by 3mm from bottom. Yes, it does! The rod is moveable inside the canopy and it could be also used as the mainstay for canopy openning. Cheers, Yufei

I only used the pipe area of Dr. Pepper's seamless intakes with original plastic parts on the top. After painting and assembling. Remember to dry fit before you glue and close the fuselage because the intake pipes may bother other parts. Thinning the edge of HUD cover here. That would do a lot to the final effect. Paint the screen with GSI Creos hydro-paint gloss clear to replicate the glass effect. Cockpit finished.Very easy indeed. The HUD is a gem! After sanding and polishing the canopy to get rid of the harming line, mask the inner clear area then add the back mirror and handles, spray them all flat black. Since I decided to make canopy movable freely this time, I found this part is too thick to close the canopy after gluing, so again some sanding work. Resin seat from Quickboost, but I found it a bit too small. And I also found an error of this Academy kit: the cockpit is about 30mm too low. I did not adjust the whole cockpit because I mentioned that too late. So I just added 30mm plastic sheet below the ejection seat. Canopy closed. Again this auxiliary intake edge is thinned from inside to make it look sharper. According to the references, VFA-81 Hornets during Gulf War do not have GPS antenna so just cut it off. Restrenghten beams of intakes. Canopy could open or close freely. No additional IFF antennas on the nose, either. Be sure to fill the small lines between windshield and nose. And you need to make some rescribing work here after the fuselage sanded. When Hornet is parked, the rudders on verical fins are positioned at about 25 degrees interward. So I cut the rudders off by a P cutter, then glue them back again. Folding wings from Wolfpack Design, but they are all wraped. And what's more, they shrinked a lot and cannot fit the fuselage: While this is the original plastic parts which fits quite quite well. So I decided to make the folding wings parts from the plastics parts. Add brass rod to increase the strength. So that' all I got till this weekend. Thanks for looking! Cheers, Yufei

Just finished the MiG-25, and then I started doing "Foxbat"'s "victim", "403" by LCDR Michael Scott Speicher, from VFA-81 "Sunliners", CV-60 Saratoga. If you're interested in the MiG-25PD, please check it here: MiG-25PD Foxbat IrAF "US NAVY Hornet Killer" Here is a very useful thread I started 2 years ago and here finally I start to make Speicher's one. Thanks a lot for your info again, guys! F/A-18C VFA-81 Any 1/72 decal available? I use Academy's incredible 1/72 F/A-18C kit with some aftermarket goods as below:

You can find both Wind Mark and Wolfpack desgn conversion set reviews here: http://www.thepmw.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=13&t=3133 http://www.thepmw.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=13&t=3223 I personally would recommend you guys to take Wind Mark Su-33 set only, and buy the Wolfpack design late type wheel bay and Sorbtsya ECM pods seprately if you need. The resin wheels included in Wolfpack design set are just modified from the original Academy parts and did not correct the wrong diameter and tough looking "Russian" on the rubber wheels. I would suggest you to take Equipage Su-33 tires which is very accurate and detailed, but a pity that maybe a little expensive. http://aftermarket.com.ua/index.php?productID=5760 You can find the new fuselage provided by Wolfpack design(in order to fit in their resin cockpit) is really very tough mastered, the fat panel lines, soft details, etc. So my choice for the cockpit would be Aires Su-27 resin ones, if you have enough skills or patience to fit it into Wind Mark fuselage, or just Eduard's prepainted PE parts which should fit much easier than appyling resin stuff. BTW, the Wind Mark nosecone is corrected indeed. HTH, Yufei

Oops, seems I forget to update here. My apologize, guys!! I finished the painting and assembling of Click2detail nozzles and the whole beast is finally finished! :woot.gif: I added some chipping effect on some areas in order to get some artifice result for more varied visual effects. Maybe not accurate enough compared with the real world though. I just wanted to express the veteran feeling on this beast. I noticed the nozzle petals are about 2mm too long compared with actual things. But take it easy! I have made feed backs to Chris of Click2detail and he will improve those on the 3D data. Thanks for looking! Cheers, Yufei

Thanks, Ken! Seems I have to stick with my 7215 then...... Cheers, Yufei

Hi, guys! Here I am for your help again. First I'm now limited to the open status of the nozzles any way. Maybe some of you think the question could be silly because Aires already released one resin nozzle set for the 1/72 Academy Hornet kit here: http://www.aires.cz/exhaust-nozzle/fa-18c-...zzles-opened-3/ But the problem is, when I dry fit the 7215 nozzles I found the diameter is about 1mm too small for the Academy kit! I believe this is because of the shrinkage problem during resin cast copying. So does any one have these two sets and would you please tell me the diameter of these nozzles designed for Hasegawa or Hobbyboss kit? http://www.aires.cz/exhaust-nozzle/fa-18c-...zzles-opened-2/ http://www.aires.cz/exhaust-nozzle/fa-18d-...-nozzle-opened/ Would they fit better on your Academy kit？ TIA！ Cheers, Yufei

The big MiG is almost finished but I'm now waiting for the nozzles from Click2Detail! Cheers! Yufei

Thanks for the feedbacks, guys. Finally found some time to post some progress last weekend. All parts surfaced and burnt metal colour sprayed firstly. Some bare metal area underneath, too. R-40TD missiles. R-40RD missiles. Gears finished and weathered. Colour for landing gear is GSI Creos Mr. Color C11. Gear bays painted and weathered, then masked. Start to paint the main colour. To be continue... Cheers, Yufei

That's the end and thanks for looking! :salute: Cheers, Yufei

Some more shots of the single plane. Not very neat photos though. Go on with some close shots.