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Thanks for your feedbacks! I used ACDSee Ver.10 for photo arranging,and you can easily add any logo in the edit mode. HTH! Yufei

Thanks,Jamie! The decal was made by Frontpenny Studio,a local one-man brand in China mainland. And the scheme is from his most recent product,the J-6 retirement anniversary set. I only know that some Taiwanese hobbyshops sell his items,maybe you can try Ebay I guess? BTW,the local price of the J-6 decal set is RMB60.- per set,equality of about GBP6.0. Thanks,General! I’m figuring to scratch build one 60-70’s PLAAF/PLANAF pilot for a dioaram show this time. I’ll let you guys informed any way.:-) Cheers, Yufei

So some final touch up here. Scratch-build the borading ladder with 0.5mm brass rods. Release it from the 2-sided tape with a new sharp razor blade. And finally painted,weathered with the engine nozzle covers. Poor pic quality,sorry.I'll take formal ones recently. Count down for the final photos online. Cheers, Yufei

Accident!! Decal destroyed by the masking tape....SH*T! Use masking tape to clear the left decal. Do it once again. To obtain the Soviet style matt dull aluminum effect,matt coating sprayed. And all parts washed. So the plane is finished. I will find some time to take photos of it. Thanks for watching! Cheers, Yufei

New progress these days. Mr.Color #1200 surfacer first. Then sand the surface with #2000 sand paper for a smoother surface. The result,not very obvious from the pic though. All parts surfacered. Gloss black for metal primer. First colour,metal black for the huge 30mm guns(or cannons?). Close shot. The main colour is mixed by Mr.Color SM06 Chrome silver:#8 Silver=4:1 Sprayed. The metal effect is too much,yes I know. What I wanna gain is the extreme neat metal effects any way. Then spray SM04 super iron for the anti-gun flare area. Notice:all MiGs are painted in silver,not in NMF. So this area is also painted,but not due to different metal material. Also here and here. After drying,decaling! The decal was frontpennt studio's products. Just top notch! Then spray semi-gloss coating to protect the decals before washing. Some high-shining areas shall be protected by masking tape slices. All metal parts coated with semi gloss. I mixed Tamiya enamel colours for washing. black:white:brown=4:2:2 During washing. Washing finished. Then appy the colour for landing gears/gear bays/airbrake bays,etc. #337 Blueish gery

Sorry,folks,and also thanks a lot for your support! It seems the bandwidth has the limit and I reached it too soon as a free user. I'll try uploading them to Photobucket later on. Cheers, Yufei

Hi,guys! This diorama has been submitted to magazine Air Modeller,and finally it has been published on October/November issue! Air Modeller Current Issue Wish you could enjoy the paper copies! Thanks for supporting! Cheers, Yufei

Some updates since my return from Tokyo yesterday. Since there's no tire trace on the original plastic parts,I have to rescribe them all. I used cut masking tape for guide,dig some small holes for the rescribing giude. Landing gears finished. Some copper/soldering tin lines are used for wiring. Small antennas are scratch-built. So next will be painting,finally,my favourite part. :banana: Thanks for watching! Yufei

Thanks for the feedbbacks,folks! DreamModel goods can be found on Hobbyeasy based in Hongkong or Modelimex based in Czech.The price is a bit higher than in China mainland,but considering the shipping cost,it's still quite reasonable I think. The MiG resin air scoops are from Quickboost,but just as I mentioned in the text above,the shapes are not correct.Or in other words,they are just hole-drilled Trumpeter original plastic parts resin copies. I believe Sidewinder pylons can be easily modified from many NATO plane kits. I will keep you updated. Cheers, Yufei

Thanks for the encouragements,folks! You're really QUICK. And I agree with you,Andy. Trumpeter lacks the sense for modelling,though they have been improving much. To be honest,there're much more wrong issues on the 1/32 version,which released firstly. Besides the same problems you can find from my 1/48 built,1/32 also suffers from the thick wing edge/root,which makes the wings look like B-17's! The 1/32 model kit master was actually built by one of the top modellers in China,Patrick Chung. But unfortunately,Trumpeter's molding department just ruined the result. I think you can still find very bad made resin engine parts from your 1/32 kit,which suppose to be be made from the overused silicon molds. But no problems cannot be solved with your passion and love for the plane,so I'm sure 1/32 could be turn out a beauty with some careful research and correction work. My 2 cents, Yufei

Another interesting place on MiG-19S/J-6 is that actually the intake section is not round. The top area is thickened to fill into the camera gun. You can find that from these pics. So again,Tamiya AB putty helps me. I will continued with the landing gears and painting after my business trip to Tokyo next week. Thanks for watching! Cheers, Yufei

The black things you can see from the pics are all sanded black superglue to fill the wrong shaped rivets/panel lines. Stabilizers are worked movable. The resin gear bay need some sanding work to fit in. The oddest thing is that you can only find welding lines on real fuel tanks,but Trumpeter made them all recessed! I have to fill'em all and add melt plastic lines,then sand to make the welding effect. Side view of the real J-6 I took. Notice the red line. This is the original kit looking. After my customized work.

Main parts are finished and glued. I spent about 30 hours rivetting!Include a week's night during my business trip in Shenyang. Blade shaped antenna is made from plastic card because the original part is too thick. I use Quickboost resin intakes but some wrong shaped issues are not corrected. So I have to correct them myself,then add welding lines. The black things you can see from the pics are all sanded black superglue to fill the wrong shaped rivets/panel lines. Stabilizers are worked movable. The resin gear bay need some sanding work to fit in.

Hi,guys! This in-progress thread is also posted on ARC forum but I still don't want to miss it here. So this is what I'm busy with recently. I visited a retired PLA Navy air force pilot,Mr.Zhushu Wang,who shot down a USAF F-4C from 366th TFW "The Gunfighters" over Lingshui,Hainan Island on June 26,1967. The combat story inspired me so much that I decided to make his J-6(Chinese licensed built MiG-19S) to record that history. You can check the visit via the link below(Sorry,simplified Chinese only): http://www.sonicmodel.com/topicdisplay.asp...TopicID=3309598 As I've already built a Bilek 1/72 MiG-19PM several years ago,this time I chose the Trumpeter 1/48 one. The kit fit good,but still suffers from some shape issues. I took tons of photos of a retired J-6 near my home for hours to study the plane,and then the most obvious problems I found on Trumpeter kit are the bad shaped nose and wrong windshield. I managed to solve the problems by replacing the HiPM kit nose,which is quite accurate,and sanding/polishing the original Trumpeter windshield. Plus,I added Eduard PE set,Pavla Models resin gear bays and NeOmega resin ejection seat,which is really a gem. As this Phantom Killer will be finished in NMF,I chose to replicate all the rivets,with the help of photos I took around the real thing. So this time,I'm a true "rivet counter"! Here we go now~~~ Ejection seat and cockpit. The handle and leather cover above the seat are made by copper wire and Tamiya AB putty. In order to fit the HiPM kit nose,some minor adjusting work is need for the original Trumpeter inner parts. The separated fins are also self-made. The gentle change between the bulged area and the front fin need to be sanded after putty applied and dried. Small tricks to make pitot tube movable before fuselage glued. The clear area on side view of windshield should curve below,so some sanding and polishing work need here. The edge of flaps,etc. is too thick,just sand to thin. The bulge on the nose is sanding from dried Tamiya AB putty. Also,you may notice I use a piece of thick tape to protect the half-rounded area which is sanded at first. The rivets on the windshield are all in wrong position. I filled'em all by black super glue. Also,the rips which combine the windshield and fuselage are also remade by Evergreen 0.14mm plastic card.

If it doen't matter,would you measure the diameter of HiPM kit's nose section for me? Or any one who has a junk HiPM Farmer kit,I'd be very pleased to buy it. Cheers, Yufei

Hi,guys I'm about to start buiding a 1/48 MiG-19S(or the early J-6 version,the same with MiG-19S). I found the nose section of Trumpeter kit looks a bit odd,together with its windshield.' Any one share the same experience? I will go to a museum close to my home to measure the real size of J-6s there. Comparing the finished pictures on Internet,I found HiPM kit looks better in nose. Any one who gets this kit please give me some pics and tell me the size? Thanks a lot in advance! Yufei

Thanks for your feedback!That's my energy for modelling. Next item may be the 1/48 J-6(MiG-19S) to celebrate retirement of Chinese J-6s this year. Some pics from Motion Emotion of AL-31F nozzles. Both 1/48 and 1/72 will be available soon. 1/48 is for J-10,and Academy Su-27 which has a smaller diameter size(As you can see two pedal parts are available). 1/72 is for J-10 and Hasegawa Su-27. Will keep you guys updated. Cheers, Yufei

Thanks you for the encouragements,mates! The nozzles,are actually rolled PE parts desgined by my friend's brand called Motion Emotion. It will soon be sale on their home page,which is still under construction. I used the metal texture from the PE part,and add some metalic blue from Tamiya Weathering Master Set D. As for the inner burnt effect,I hand painted them by enamel paints(grey,brown,black,etc.). Just watch the real thing pics carefully and you'll find it quite easy. HTH! Yufei

Thank you,mates! It's a simple plane,and so is the kit itself. I tried to make it clean and new,though it's not my favourite style. Any way,thanks for your time and inputting! Cheers, Yufei

A million thanks to Viperbite who took the photos for me! Thanks for watching! Yufei

Here we go! This work was published on the Taiwanese magazine <The Power Modeling Magazine> Vol.2. And here's the in-progress thread: Trumpeter 1/48 J-10A, My first quarter scale kit after 15 years! Some details shots. The details,if you still wanna call them,are very simple indeed. That's why I don't like 4th generation fighters such as F-22 or F-35. So toy like...... More!

So finally,it's all finished. :woo: Since it's late today,I'll find another day for the formal photographing. Thanks for watching! Yufei

The "Red Star" markings on Fulcrums from 28th GvIAP are quite unique. The ones on lowe wing surface are normal one,but the ones on vertical fins are without the red outline. What's most interesting,the ones on upper wing suface are the "low vision" without any red colour. I've never found them on other regiments. Any one knows? So,the decals were pre-cut before applying into water. Nozzles and parachute bays,all resin aftermarket goods from Aires.

Aires resin nozzle exhausts(for Italeri kit). Main colour SM03 super iron sprayed,then other metal colours and Tamiya enamel colours hand painted for burnt effect. Washed with dark grey enamel colour. Some small parts.

Painting goes on slowly...... ELF rubber wheels from Belussia are even better than Equipage ones! Look at those small numbers on the tire. Exactly the same of the real size. The scheme I chose this time is the Blue 33 from 28th GvIAP,Moscow military district. Here are some real thing photos from www.foxbat.ru and <Famous Russian Aircraft MiG-29> by Yefim Gordon. Regarding the copyrights,I'll only give you the links as below: http://image161.poco.cn/mypoco/myphoto/201...1092385_008.jpg http://image161.poco.cn/mypoco/myphoto/201...1092385_007.jpg http://image161.poco.cn/mypoco/myphoto/201...1092385_001.jpg It's a badly worn out veteran Fulcrum with some re-painted camo which makes it more interesting. New progress coming! Flat black C33 Dark grey for radome/antenna,etc. 70% C305+30% Camo A Landing gears,wheel bays,gear door inside 50% C337+50% Camo A The white outlined area of Blue 33 is off-registered So I have to cut the masking tape for airbrush painting myself. Decals are a little hard so I used thin plastic glue for mark softer. And it worked very well.