jackroadkill
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Well, that's grand. It's also the top of a very slippery slope!
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Oh, that's a real beauty!
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Nice! Nowt wrong with a guilty pleasure or two, eh?
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Just found this thread, Adam - some lovely work here. I've got one of these lurking in my stash, waiting for me to build up the courage to build it. You've done a really nice job on yours.
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What a result! A superb job, as always, Giampiero.
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Cheers chaps - blush mode engaged!
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In the flurry of recent activity I haven't forgotten this build. I've had to do quite a lot of filling and sanding, but it was time to get a proofing coat on to see what the results of that work were like.
In this picture the proofing coat has just gone on and is drying. So far so good, but a decent check over is next on the list. I anticipate a bit more hacking and grinding, if I'm honest, but not too much.
Cheers,
JRK
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HobbyBoss Me262A-1b. Painted with Colourcoats and MRP paints; Quinta Studios 3d decal cockpit and Reskit wheels. The build was simple and the paintwork.... wasn't!
Cheers,
JRK
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Finished! She'll be in the gallery very shortly.
Thanks to everyone who's followed the build and offered comments and advice; it's all very much appreciated.
Cheers,
JRK
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I bought a kit from Chris @stringbag on Sunday afternoon and it was here by Thursday morning, very well packed and in superb condition. Thanks Chris, it was really nice to do a deal with you.
Thanks,
JRK
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@Alan Sorry to hear that; we'll look forward to you returning!
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13 hours ago, modelling minion said:
Cracking result on your Fishbed mate, I really like Latin American schemes and the Mig-21 is one of my favourite aircraft so you're ticking all the right boxes as far as I'm concerned.
Cheers Craig. There's a plan in the works for a Croatian MiG-21bisD in flight soon. Well, soon by my standards, so probably before the next ice age!
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PM for Hasegawa FGR2 Phantom with Black Box resin Cockpit £35 + £5 p&p.
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Thanks all, much appreciated.
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This RFI has been a long time in coming; I started the kit last May, I think, and have worked on it in between other builds for the most part. The kit itself is superb, probably the nicest I've built so far (luckily, as I have two other versions of it in my stash, one of which was given to be by @81-er of this parish). I used a Barracuda shock cone, an Aires ejector seat, some Reskit wheels and an Eduard Look cockpit set. Despite being a Weekend kit there were some Eduard Superfabric belts included, which I have to say were really nice to use, and knocked the stainless ones into a cocked hat.
One area where I let myself down was my paint choices. Rather than forking out for some appropriate enamels from Colourcoats, as I usually would, I went with some old (and as it turned out) crappy Humbrols for the upper surfaces. It took me coat after coat to get anything like a result, and in the end this rather impacted on the excellent surface detail.
According to Eduard's blurb, the scheme I chose shows one of twelve MiG-21R airframes delivered to Castro's Cuban Revolutionary Air and Air Defence Force in 1968. It is still in existence in a museum in Havana. The scheme is correct for the mid-1990's, which I think is when this airframe was retired. Some Google-fu reveals several pictures of this and similar airframes, all in varying states of serviceability and repair, presumably due to the blockade and sanctions imposed on Cuba, the fall of the USSR etc etc, so I've taken some minor liberties perhaps in showing this in a very dirty and careworn condition (or, as my better half put it, looking like an old David Brown tractor that's been left in a hedge for years).
Jets aren't really my area of knowledge, and the forgotten corners of the end of the cold war are quite a long way from my comfort zone, but hey, Cuba, right?
Cheers,
JRK
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Finished! Or should I say finished at long last?
Anyway, it seems to have turned out pretty well, despite being nearly a year in the making. Since the last update I've finished the panel lining and attached all of the bits and pieces that were left over.
Thanks to everyone who has offered encouragement and suggestions throughout this build.
RFI to follow.
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7 minutes ago, mark.au said:
I see a silk purse.
Bless you, Mark - that's because you're looking at it from a very long way away, I think!
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3 minutes ago, modelling minion said:
Great to see this one is still underway and looking very good too.
Really nice painting.
Cheers Craig, that's very kind of you.
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Right, just in case any of you thought I'd given up, I haven't - I've just been very sort of bench time recently. I was also a bit demotivated with this build after the pig's ear I made of the paint job, but I appear to be back in the saddle again, and I might get this finished before the end of the GB.
I sprayed the wing and fuselage insignia and the Hakenkreutz on the vertical tail, then got the stencils and PLW on. All things considered, it's not too bad of a save. This one's never going to be a shining example of a superb build, but hey. One thing that hasn't helped is that I broke the loop aerial in half... Grrrrr!
On the underside things look better; well, they would really, wouldn't they, after not having suffered the same disaster that the top half did. For some reason I had no lower wing masks for the Balkenkretuze, so those are decals.
Seen from close up the bottom looks very nice (fnarrr), so that's something to be pleased with.
I'm looking forward to getting this one finished now. I have the Meteor left on the bench but am already beginning to think of the next build. I might do a couple of Emils, as it's been a while since I last braved one. Then again, there's the P-51 STGB that I could get involved in, too....
Cheers,
JRK
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Woohoo! Two updates in two days?!
Not really anything earth-shattering, just some picture of the undersides with the panel line wash dried and sorted. Again, I've made it look pretty old and manky, and there are still stains etc to come.
Not the best photo in the world; it's a bit washed out and taken from a funny angle, but you'll get the gist, I'm sure.
A better picture, although it's made me realise that I've forgotten to grubby up the wheels yet....
So, there is progress of a sort.
Cheers,
JRK
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Hello all, yes, I'm still alive....
I've made some small progress on this build; the undercarriage (apart from the nosewheel) is on, as are the droptanks. I've also managed to get the PLW on the topsides and sloshed quite a lot of muck around up there too. I'm going for a properly dirty been-left-under-a-hedge look for this one, so hopefully that'll show through by the time I'm done.
For some reason I haven't yet stuck the recon pod or the air-to-air missiles on yet, but that'll be done soon, probably after the PLW on the undersides.
Cheers,
JRK
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Ah well, at least you haven't got another of the same kit in your stash to worry about, eh?!
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That's a great result, James.
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Nice work, Martin!
On Heather's Workbench - Strike Hard, Strike Sure: RAF Bomber Command 1940
in Work in Progress - Aircraft
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Hi Heather, it's good to hear that BB is improving. I hope you can find some time for yourself soon.