Aardvark

Could honestly admit that the hosts drank all the champagne intended for the modeller who starts the first build in this GB! 😛😲😢 But as You wish!😁 First glue applied on this GB: Compared with original: But it's photo 5th prototype BI-5 with other rocket engine and without two 20-mm ShVAK guns: Of course if this GB was in The Navy: I would have received rum from the hosts GB as a prize! 😉😁 This is a tradition in the GB Navy, I know about that - Sir Winston Churchill talked about it!😁😁 But since BI-1 is a land plane, not a naval one, it seems that in this GB, instead of rum, I will receive from the hosts GB only other parts of this statement, Sir Winston Churchill! 😁😁 Compared with attempt number three which is I'm made as OOB: B.R. Serge P.S. Oops, I just noticed I was the first to post pictures with the first use of glue and paint in this GB @Andwil so, I can no longer pretend to rum and everything else! 😉😁😁 P.P.S. All waiting from my stories about first flying Soviet Jet fighter with drawings and photos? Of course it's will be, but later! 😉😎

What a pathetic attempt not to give champagne Don Perignon- 1812! Same as this one: !!!!! 😁😁😁 B.R. Serge

Especially if this stack of interceptor blueprints fell in the archive on the head of some secret hunter spy! 😉😁 B.R. Serge

Welcome to this topic with name "Plasticard-nostalgia": http://scalemodels.ru/modules/forum/viewtopic.php?t=50801&start=0 😁 Pete, is that where all this wildish comes from in Midland's and what else do you's read in the West about the USSR? - "Stalin don't like Sukhoi"....Stalin so don't like Sukhoi, that in 1943 he awarded him the Stalin Prize for the Su-6 attack aircraft built in one or two copies and never made it into the series and therefore to the front! A strange way not to love a person is to give him money, a lot of money 😁😁 instead of sending him to the front or to the Gulag, don’t You think? - "original Su-9 which Stalin said was too like a copy of the Me-262" - Stalin himself proposed to start copying and producing the Me-262, but the designers persuaded him not to do so. By the way, the design of the Su-9 (LK) began in 1944, even before the living Me-262 came to the USSR. And the Su-9 is more compatible with the He-280, more precisely, the paper project for the modernization of the He-280, which was never made in metal, and I have never come across any documentary traces of which in the form of scheme or drawings. - Sukhoi design bureau was closed as Myasishev design bureau, Alexeev design bureau, e.t.c.....all clear - no you're design bureau aircraft in army/civil aviation go to the street, because need money for rebuilding the country after the hardest war. Of course, no one was left without work, but many had to switch from black caviar to ordinary bread and butter. About Su-2. All metal without armour , after the start of the war, problems with metal began, and an attack aircraft without armor was no longer the same. And Yes, Sukhoi was why not love one story that his personal design bureau did not want to go to Kharkov before the war to establish the production of the Su-1, because of the unwillingness to lose their apartments in Moscow, is worth a lot. Pete, de-fact OKB-51 was taken from Kondratyev, who could not cope with copying the Sabre and given to Sukhoi ...Sukoi did not copy Saber, but some of the design solutions in the S-1 future Su-7 used .... and yes, the Su-7 was designed and produced in a small series of about a hundred euse samples as a pure fighter! Than Mikoyan crossed the road with his I-7U. In turn, like a Su-7 fighter against the background of the MiG-21, it looked like 💩, Therefore, the Su-7 had to be converted into a fighter-bomber, but Sukhoi revenge Su-9 to Mikoyan with his I-75, Ye-150/152 after what, before the MiG-25 Mikoyan played in the Light League. Ship - Корабль in Russian language reality it is because the ship is masculine in Russian. By the way, heavy aircraft Tu-128, MiG-31 are not called aircraft among pilots, officially the position sounds to a pilot as "Ship Commander". B.R. Serge

So, GB officially started! 😉😁 Firstly I used official factory cutaway key BI from magazine published rescale to 72nd: Main problem with model geometry: a seemingly ridiculous and insignificant 1mm fuselage height insert is necessary, but for such a small aircraft this is a lot! As You's see model 95,7 mm in length for 72nd scale. Cut off! 😎😛 So it's first officially made cut off in this GB !!! 😛😉😁😎 Where is my champagne from the hosts? 😉😁😁😁 B.R. Serge

I'm really wrote this? I must reread what I have written again. I mean, there cannot be only one color for the radome of the Soviet Air Force / Air Defense - radome green, because in addition to green there were also various shades of gray. Because, as You see, those color photos of the MiG-17PF, Yak-25, I-3U, Ye-150/152A/M showing different grey radome colour, but in same time we know MiG-21F-13, Su-7, Su-9 and further colour radome was green, therefore, it is quite possible that the same plane radome was gray, but during repair, due to the introduction of new standards, the radome turned green. In order to accurately identify the time periods, I need to know the brand of green paint and the time it was put into operation, often when asked about the time, the number of the GOST or TU standard can tell. Without name green enamel and commissioning date, it is difficult to assert something guaranteed. But in favor of the fact that there were most likely gray ones, these photos of prototypes of the further development of the MiG-19 speak: Radome grey? Red "02" absolutely grey! And look and photo MiG-17P from movie: Radome grey? Absolutely! Thus, we have a sequence: - MiG-19 P predecessor MiG-17 - grey, MiG-19 development SM-12 - grey. What should be the color of the MiG-19? Probably gray ?! From the only colour photo session (photograph Tchvetkov) I know of a MiG-19PM in service, it is impossible to determine whether it is gray or green, the angle is not the same: which is published by all publications: Grey? Light weathering green? Yes, we have modern photo from Monino were radome green: But it's museum, in museum and memorial anything happens: 😁😁😁 So, it's You choice between grey and green. B.R. Serge

Why not agree? B-29 =>Tu-4 =>Tu-80=>Tu-85=>Tu-95 which is essentially a Tu-85 fuselage with a new swept wing, tail and fin. Therefore, why should i mind? The B-29 is a very distant relative of the Tu-95, as I think. As and MiG-21 very distant relative of the MiG-15. To some extent, the MiG-23 is related to the MiG-21, which through the MiG-23PD had a new fuselage, with the MiG-21 wing. In most cases, in the USSR, as the country of the victorious revolution, the development of most aviation technology proceeded in an evolutionary and not revolutionary way. Even if the connection is not visible, but it is! For example, the Yak-25 is an enlarged twin-engine Yak-50. However, Yakovlev was generally a retrograde in this matter, the projects Yak-45 and Yak-47 rivals MiG-29 and Su-27, respectively, were actually based on the Yak-28. True, the Yak-45 and Yak-47 with a whistle flew past the prize-winning place in the competition of the USSR 4-generation fighter. There is an evolutionary path in some Western developments, but not so long: Panter=>Couguar=>Tiger FH-1 => FH2 e.t.c. Better leave @Col. will be best tomorrow, when starts GB, but today, when Friday 13 Therefore ....have time before 00:00! 😉😁 B.R. Serge

I have too...but the problem with the stencil I wrote about ... by the way here is a good illustration of this problem: http://scalemodels.ru/modules/forum/img_1437079_1512480234_IMG_4201_f.jpg.html B.R. Serge P.S. By the way, is anyone wondering if I can take a photo comparing the old and new Revell F-101B decals in this topic for history?

In principle here: http://scalemodels.ru/modules/forum/viewtopic_t_72040.html he writes: "fixes by USAF and U.S. AIR FORCE decals for F-84 / F-86 / F-100 / F-101 / F-102 / F-104 / F-105 / F-106 / F-4 complete with USAF insignia. The color of the lettering is in the correct color, the same color as the Blue color on the USAF decals. Scale 1: 72/48/32. Such kits are available on request for any aircraft of the US Air Force, on any scale." As for the price, he indicates 780 rubles per decal in the 48th scale, which is about $ 10 at the current exchange rate. Since 1/48 is one and a half times more than 1/72, I think that the price should also be one and a half times less, but this is my opinion. In general, he makes any decals to order, according to the customer's photo or from the original layout of the customer, so he can do anything, both in the technique of silk-screen printing we are used to, as well as laser printing or mask-stencils from tape. The only thing he wrote is that he has problems with printing yellow elements, but he somehow gets out of this situation. I myself have not bought these decals for many personal reasons, but they have good reviews from modelers. B.R. Serge P.S. By the way, he has quite original decals in his catalog, such as: - https://uprise-decal.ru/1_72/f-14d-tomcat-vf-31-last-cruise F-14D Tomcat VF-31 Last Cruise (Look close at emblem cat between the legs!😁 Element number 3 on decals.) - https://uprise-decal.ru/mig-17/air-hooligans-hawker-hunter-fga-9-mig-17pf - https://uprise-decal.ru/F-5E_Tiger_II/f-5e-tiger-ii-ussr-test e.t.c.

What I say....strange.... B.w. International Orange from MM I have and I will need it in the foreseeable future in one GB future, because I have no other orange one. Therefore, as we joke, "Stop scaring the ostrich! The floor in the aviary is concrete and not sand!" 😁 Discontinued it's a problem for me, because I have a lot of stocks of MM, almost a complete first basic catalog .... but is there somewhere the composition of the MM solvent if if it consists of primitive and non-hazardous components? Because I recently mixed* Tamiya Extra Thin Cement from the components, it works and works exactly like the real Extra Thin Cement Tamiya, maybe the same trick can be done with the MM solvent? B.R. Serge ___________ * - By the way Tamiya Extra Thin Cement is the same Tamiya cleaner for airbrush. The only difference is that for the glue the components are mixed 50:50 and for the solvent 49:51. But in fairness, not all Tamiya products can be made at home, for some somewhat rare components, like ordinary Tamiya glue which contains "styrole resin" , and of course will not make paints and putties ... but solvents / extra thin cement are the simplest and they can be made at home if have components.

Model Master is a very sensitive paint to extraneous solvents. In no case should it be dissolved with foreign solvents in a jar, only a directly in the bowl of airbrush. In the airbrush bowl, I diluted it perfectly with local acetone-based solvents (type 646, 647) and sprayed it. It was said that the local 650 thinner perfectly dilutes the Model Master in the bottle, but I have not tried it. For such purposes, I keep a branded Model Master solvent, as and Humbrol, Revell, GS and Tamiya. In principle, in all these bottles of the screw cap system, the Model Master and GS are the most unsuccessful, most likely this is due to a rigid metal or polypropylene cap, due to the loose fit of which the solvent evaporates and the paint dries out to the screw neck of the bottle. Exactly the same Tamiya system but with a softer polypropylene lid does not have such problems and can be stored for years, like the classic system Revell-Humbrol. However, I also came across unique ones, like the limelight from the artists of the Italian company Marmeri, which once decided to make paint for modellers ... yes, its Silver was better than the classic Humbrol 11 ... but this paint flowed out from under the closed lid of the can back in store! At the same time, for a brush, the paint is very good due to the fine and fine grinding of the pigment, but due to the fact that the Marmeri company produced some abstract paints without reference to any standards such as BS, RAL or FS, so the sale of this paint failed and the project turned out to be a failure. B.R. Serge

Pete, You need to use lighter model chemistry, not enamels with an aggressive solvent .... although, on the other hand ... today I watched the final episodes of the series "Bomb" about the creators and the process of creating the first Soviet atomic bomb, at the end, against the background credits, there were still living real participants in the events, and one of them said that during the experiments on the construction of the atomic bomb, one of its creators, Academician Yulii Khariton, https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yulii_Khariton ( b.w. educated at Cambridge ) received a critical dose of radiation incompatible with life ..... during the tests he was about 40 - 45 years old , after that he lived to be 96 years old (Don't tell me that You are already 97 years old, 😁 I know Your age!) ...therefore no one knows all the capabilities of the human organism. 😉 B.R. Serge

Are You provoking my?😲😁 O.K! 😉 Today part* of Your dream has come true! All claims to YouTube, Elizabeth Olsen and Western TV! 😛 I just posted a link to YouTube! 😁 B.R. Serge ____________ * - I think the other part of Your dream will be realized by Giorgio, because he will tell us in old Italian language all that he thinks about those who write offtopic in his topic! 😉😲😁

1989 year. Aardvark stands at the local city collectors club, the only place where one could semi-legally* buy Western models, and asks a 50-year-old hardened collector who sells or changes Hasegawa, Monogram, Italeri, etc.: - Do you have Voodoo to sell? - .... voodoo - figudoo**... need to buy classics! F-15 or F-16 for example! Those. even in the USSR at the end of the 80s, the classics were considered the F-15 and F-16, and the F-101 was not at all perceived as any famous aircraft! What to say about F-94, etc.? Some radically, but fully clarifies the situation. 😉😁 B.R. Serge ______________ * - in crime the law of the USSR was criminal responsibility for speculation, therefore, for the sale of models, one could theoretically go to jail. ** - I cannot translate this word because it is not in the Russian language, in fact, it was composed right there as a rhyme, and was derived in meaning from the word "nonsense", although in fact there was a derivative from another widely known obscene Russian word, which I did not dare to publish and replaced it with a synonym ...😁

Yeah!!!! "For the Motherland!" "For Stalin!" 😉 B.R. Serge

Almost always passed two-seater fighters if there is a single-seat version (I made an exception for the F-101B and Me-262B, maybe for something else) but looking at this option with eggplant camouflage from above and air superiority from below, I wondered if I should buy this model, especially since we seem to have had fresh supplies recently. So I'll take a look behind this build. B.R. Serge

At best see once! Old F-89 Revell: New F-89 Revell: Microscale F-102: Best difference in color is seen when compared dark blue "U.S. Air Force" and black "53372". Microscale with wrong Meng compared: Hasegawa F-106: On all photo (from mobile) different in colour less noticeable, but in reality it is more noticeable. "Up-rice decal" in all scale available on the market: https://uprise-decal.ru/F_100 https://uprise-decal.ru/F_101 https://uprise-decal.ru/F_102_106 https://uprise-decal.ru/F_104 https://uprise-decal.ru/F_105 , but You're right, the size is not always standard on some aircraft. 😁 In fact, this is a cunning and insidious plan to eliminate the global dominance of US models in this GB! 😁😁🤑 Just kidding! But in reality, if I manage to quickly complete this BI-1 flea, I plan to declare another non-serial interceptor of the USSR, because recently I had information that is not yet on the Internet (and which I will not publish) on the interior of the cockpit of this interceptor which the manufacturer did not have ... The interceptor is twin-engine, the interceptor has been launched, but it fits into the 25% rule as I think. B.R. Serge

I don't have a recipe for a ready-made paint for modelers, some aspects of painting radome Soviet fighters (including Yak-25) were discussed here: Some colour photo not work in topic because of the problem http - https but this photos live, just open them in a new tab in Your browser. Why don't I like the colors on the models from the links I provided? Too bright and too blue for me, I think that the color should be more gray with a bluish tint, but this is my subjective opinion. Again, this is all guesswork from color photos where the result may not correspond to reality at all, as an example, see my today posting about the problem of USAF stencil in the chat of this GB. Just a poor study by the manufacturer of official US documents regulating the color of these stencil and the problems with the color rendering of Kodak films, led to the fact that most of these inscriptions are in the wrong color ... B.R. Serge

Yes, modeller known as "Kelly Johnson" has a very high level of modeling. His other builds, Hawker Sea Hawk and F9F Panther, are also of high quality, unfortunately his latest interesting project Sword F3D Skyknight is unfinished long time. The build article, as well as the WIP, needs translation, because there are many points indicating how to modify the model or correct its errors. B.R. Serge

Hi, all! I thought for a long time before writing this posting, but then I decided to write it all the same. But then I decided to write all the same before GB officially begins, because it is better to warn in advance. The fact is that these builds have potential problems through the fault of the manufacturer: F-106 from Monogram, F-94B from Sword and XF-91 from Lindberg as I think probably also have this problem, but I do not have these models, so I cannot say for sure. The rationale for this problem, with links to the article, why the correct color is dark blue and not black, I wrote here: Besides, as far as I know, this problem was discussed in some Western forums (ARC?). No this problem in Meng: Also in this topic @Jb65rams I see aftermarket decal with probably correct colour "U.S. Air Force", therefore this build will most likely be correct too: Interestingly what from all my collection of US aircraft jet fighter , the correct dark blue stencils have decals F-106 Meng and aftermarket decal F-102 from Microscale. Have also F-89 but with F-89, the situation is ridiculous, Asademy has the wrong black color, the old Revell has the correct dark blue, but a small stencil U.S. Air Force size , and the new Revell has the correct colour USAF dark blue but the wrong colour U.S.Air Force black. Therefore, it's global problems and I did not declare any US interceptor per GB here, despite the fact that many models can be made simply out of the box, if not for this decal problem. So you's know the problem, leave it unresolved as it is or look for the correct aftermarket decals for you's to decide. Sorry if this isn't good news for anyone. B.R. Serge

The model matches the drawings quite well: http://www.airwar.ru/other/draw/yak25-27.html http://www.airwar.ru/other/draw/yak25sm.html http://www.airwar.ru/other/draw/yak25_kr.html http://www.airwar.ru/other/draw2/yak25-2.html the only problem is that some of the drawings (with rivets http://www.airwar.ru/other/draw/yak25sm.html ) have a length error, as I remember, but the model was made according to others. There is also information here: http://walkarounds.scalemodels.ru/v/walkarounds/avia/after_1950/Yak-25+Borovaya/ http://scalemodels.ru/modules/forum/viewtopic.php?t=33203&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=0 http://www.airwar.ru/enc/fighter/yak25.html Build models here: http://scalemodels.ru/articles/5949-a-model-1-72-k-25m.html http://scalemodels.ru/articles/13452-Amodel-1-72-k-25m-my-klepali-my-klepali---.html but the shades of their radar color seem questionable to me, in addition, on one of the models, the air brake is mistakenly painted in the color of the radar. B.w. Yak-25K/S it's very little series interceptor or maybe testbed, don't remember. B.R. Serge

Will be interesting comparison A-model with Trumpeter for my. The problems of the A-model are not only in the poor fit, but the problems of the A-model in the sweep angle of the wing. This is due to the fact that in the technical documentation this angle was given along 3/4 of the wing chord line, while the developers of the model and O. Podkladov (drawings in A&V) applied this data to the leading edge of the wing, therefore the error. B.R. Serge

Hi, Giorgio! Maybe helping: - F-94B Starfire (Sword 1/72): Article: http://scalemodels.ru/articles/7999-Sword-1-72-Lockheed-F-94B-Starfire.html WIP: http://scalemodels.ru/modules/forum/viewtopic_t_48019.html - F-94B Starfire (Hobbycraft 1/48😞 http://scalemodels.ru/modules/forum/viewtopic_t_20102_start_0.html Despite the fact that in the conclusion of the article on Sword it is described that the model is very difficult (which we observed at all stages of the WIP), I still plan to buy it even though I have a Heller. B.R. Serge

Stop, it's was specification F.124T or requirements OR.301? I think the concept of the Me-163 was more in line with Shoth PD7 : http://worldatwar.net/chandelle/v1/v1n2/short_pd7.gif no? Those. should this padlock be standard in the series? Is this a kamikaze plane? I told - this is a different concept !!! 😁😁😁 B.R Serge

Don't remember, did I tell this anecdote or not? Circus. Circus poster. There is an inscription on it: "Unique number! Only with us! A boy with a unique memory!" The beginning of the performance, the entertainer announces the number, the boy comes out ... and begins to methodically pee at the audience starting from the first rows of the circus. In the hall, panic begins and the upper rows are trying to leave the circus unpee. The entertainer, addressing the upper rows: "No, no, you don't understand! The performance is called:"A boy with a UNIQUE MEMORY!!!"" 😁 Sometimes I feel like a this boy with a unique memory !!! 😁😁😁 So, Tu-128 really based on unlucky bomber Tu-98 http://alternathistory.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/25574-dalniy-barrazhiruyuschiy-istrebitel-perehvatchik-tu-128-chast-1-05.jpg which by the way was shown to the American delegation, when it was known that this bomber would not go into production. We liked to joke like that, as you's probably know. Tupolew tried to finish it with a file first in the F-105, http://alternathistory.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/25574-dalniy-barrazhiruyuschiy-istrebitel-perehvatchik-tu-128-chast-1-11.jpg calling him Tu-98A for conspiracy, and after recalling him Tu-98B: Later, the restless Tupolev sawed through his Tu-98 into Tu-24: http://alternathistory.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/25574-dalniy-barrazhiruyuschiy-istrebitel-perehvatchik-tu-128-chast-1-12.jpg Firefighters, police, ambulance, police, KGB, two UFOs from other galaxies (which no one saw) and one air defense commander came to sparks flying out from under the file of Tupolev, who was once again sawing the Tu-98.The air defense commander was sad and sad because the La-250 was not working out, so he proposed to put the Tu-98 into an interceptor, almost interceptor Tu-98LL: http://alternathistory.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/25574-dalniy-barrazhiruyuschiy-istrebitel-perehvatchik-tu-128-chast-1-15.jpg Then Tupolev remembered that he was also a surgeon, and therefore he sewed the head of the Tu-98LL to the Tu-24 and called it Tu-128. Then you's know, you've seen the Trumpeter model. But old man Tupolev was very upset when his file was idle, and therefore he constantly tried to cut something else out of the Tu-128: - Tu-128A: http://alternathistory.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/25575-u-128-chast-2-12.jpg - Tu-138: http://alternathistory.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/25575-u-128-chast-2-15.jpg http://alternathistory.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/25575-u-128-chast-2-17.jpg http://alternathistory.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/25575-u-128-chast-2-12.jpg Once Tupolev got tired of sawing with a file and he simply sewed a cockpit from an interceptor to the Tu-22M and called it all Tu-148:😁 http://alternathistory.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/25574-dalniy-barrazhiruyuschiy-istrebitel-perehvatchik-tu-128-chast-1-11.jpg Therefore interceptor project on Tu-22M base was! Was after how he ceased to be a Tornado😁 or "space interceptor from Star Wars"😁: http://www.airwar.ru/enc/xplane/tu148.html 😁😁😁 Attention! Since now the http links due to the lack of s (https) are not showing as a photo, I could have confused the photo! The correct photo order should be here: http://alternathistory.com/dalnij-barrazhiruyushhij-istrebitel-perehvatchik-tu-128-chast-1-sozdanie-samoleta/ http://alternathistory.com/dalnij-barrazhiruyushhij-istrebitel-perehvatchik-tu-128-chast-2-serijnoe-proizvodstvo-i-modifikatsii/ Su-19 in reality was project Su-15 with elliptical, ogival wing: Iike a wing T-10 predecessor Su-27. But and interceptor project on base Su-24 also was. B.R. Serge