Severus

My bet is, that up to main longeron it's graygreen, up from longeron to canopy it might be black.

I saw certain Polish drawings, profiles, decals etc.. Everything from Polland is famous by its roughly approximate accuracy. Though, on paper it looks very... appealing.

The same worried me at first, therefore I glued using CA in the first two attempts (XII #1 and V.c). As I got assured, there's not too much to see and compare straight lines with, I switched over to raw perchlorethylene or xylene.

Happened purely by-the-way, mixed from random amount of Hu:95 or 97 with 78. Perhaps, next time I'll use Hu:90 with drop 78, as, after some shading, cockpit looks a little dark. Honestly said, I'm rather proud of detailing cockpit for the first time without piece of Eduard, perhaps only part I'll use, will be belts, as I'm somehow getting lazy.

Looks quite good! What a pity you didn't took your time on wheels and UC. Could possibly look better. BTW... Have you seen my XII's dashboard?

Should I put the fusselage together?

Raw result - will be puttied and sanded. And, yes, I omitted stiffeners.

Some progress on seats... Throttle quadrant (piece of sprue, wire etc.) Oxygen hose...

Got pair of Occ as gift. Nose needs a bit of surgery. The main problem might be easily corrected by 1. cut off lower cowling just by the line between bottom and side cowling. 2. cut in front of exhaust, move the cut section a few mm (sorry, I grew up in metric system) up, 3. sand off excessive styrene on the bottom line of side cowling (simply said, rearrange the straight joint line) 4. Add bottom cowling 5. some sanding, puttying on upper cowling, And we are there.

I wanna see it tainted, tainted black Black as night, black as coal I wanna see the sun blotted out from the sky I wanna see it tainted, tainted, tainted, tainted black!

Just a little coloring of IP. From lack of better camera, I chose two least unusable pics...

Semigloss is better over hard gloss finish - gloss shows too much faults. And hard matt is somehow unrealistic, assuming the era, when these planes served.

Thanks for kind words. Well, it was real strong temptation to put there some Ed's etch. (Un)fortunately, it didn't fit, and forced me to push my limits.

I see unpainted floor!!!

Dashoboard... Not convincing, but in such scale I don't think it's worth to spend more time on it.

Some little progress: Painting cokpit greygreen. Mixed from some Hu:95 and 78, as Hu:78 looked too dark. And, because of this...: ...I made some masks for rationalising putty work: And something refreshing from Airfix

Furnishing cockpit a little from household items. And cleaned instrument panel bulkhead, and gave the IP matt black coat.

It's just week collection... Kidding... I collected it during months in basement, as we had certain difficulties with boiler's gas ignition. (Flame outs, combustion passing thru collector into mixer... Terrible), until I've been able to collect spare parts and repair it. So, just yesterday I took it upstairs, in the intention to really _dig_ out the content.

Thanks! Well the lid seemed... Persistent, but I didn't force it, just took bigger screwdriver. BTW, I looked through my stash. I got some five or six. One simply isn't enough.

First steps in the new kit... Little addendum... Added reinforcements to down corners of bulkhead. Just waiting to set the glue (trichlorethylen), then cut to shape and ready to paint, Also, I decided to cut the door, as I found some more vac canopies in my stash. Comparing with V.c from Sword, XII seems somehow bald in cockpit. No map case, no throttle quadrant, no fuel valves, no gear valves... Nothing, that can't be solved by some stretched sprue, some wires, etc.

Just to give you a taste, what you should expect:

With hasegawa - the price IMHO doesn't correlate with parts count, at best, I think, it correlates with just trying to push limits, what modellers would be able to pay for. Recent offerings of F-16D of IAF, based on the old F-16B/D with a few bits inside for three times higher price of original release, are just crazy.

Tell me, dear, do you consider yourself as modeller? If you are unsatisfied with recent Airfix offerings, why don't you obtain some CMR spits? They are considered as being almost holy grail

In the scale 1:72, gracefully I leave the leg area as is, as there's not so much to see. And, concerning the wheel well, I simply put the wing together, then I cut the strip of styrene, and glue it around the wheel well. When the glue is cured, I take plade or razor saw, and cut what's protruding from the well. Fast, simple.

The shade of the paint somehow reminds old Humbrol 124 - Petroleum Blue.