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Hello dear colleagues! Today I'm happy to show you my last finished project - Revell kit A-320NEO. It's the 3-rd of my 320-series "parade", and one more is in progress for today. The progress of assemble you can find here. Also I've done a short music video of main steps of building progress 😎 And there is a really exciting coincidence that I've finished my build almost at the same day with another one BA-Revell 320NEO kit from @lomasca 😀 So what can I say about the kit? Really it's not bad at all - well in joining of parts, neat moulds (except of really bad main landing gears). But actually Zvezda 320s are better IMHO (and cheaper twice in MSK)))) But that's no doubt - I enjoyed building new Revell product - it's really well-done. So about building: First I've used dark-gray primer for inner parts to prevent translucency of fuselage under bright sunshine. Later all antennas were removed due to neat sanding of seams between parts of fuselage. The engines that are common to be difficult to paint in Revell kits A-320 doesn't seem too difficult for me. And there was the main task to remove the seam between transparent part and fuselage, that made me to use some Tamiya putty and some sanding paper. Painting That was my first attempt to paint bi-colour livery... And what can I say - it wasn't fully successful. I've used some masking tape, but the border of colours that I've made first was incorrect: the border was rising up from wings to nose, though it's strictly parallel to ground on real plane. And the worst of all is that I've noticed that fail only during first photo-session of the model. So, that was a big choise 1) to drop-off the model to garbage (no-no, really NOOO - there is too much invested labor) - or 2) to remove all the paint and to give it new (and easier) livery or 3) to try to save the situation. I've chosen 3-rd way. So I've lost 1/3 of wonderful decals, BA logos over doors, and sanded nose part till the plastics. Then I've used plasticine masks to save remaining stencils (TNK over the windows for example), and painted once more with new borders of colour. In result it's not very well done, but it's sure better than first attempt. And after all - that was a new problem to find decals for BA one more time. Red-blue strips and a lot of stencils were destroyed as well as front doors. I had to purchase one more decal-sheet from Brazilian manufacturer. Though the decal was really thick, bad in applying, and the main thing that it was developed for early BA-320's with ethnic tails. So if today there is a logo of crown after BA stencil, that time there was no crown after it. I've used Mr.Hobby H-1 for white colour, some mix of H-1 + dark-gray Tamiya for wings, MAKR aluminium for wings and stabilisers edges, MAKR royal-blue for bottom of fuselage (maybe it's really not the same as on prototype, but it's somewhere near IMHO) Also the out-of-box red part of decal isn'n enough - that made me to turn to my reserves and to cut a little pieces from Aeroflot red flag-colours (tail part) of decals. Otherwise decals are stunning, even I can say they are too detailed for 1/144 scale! I really enjoyed it, though I've spent half a day while applying it. Additions Usually I am "out-of-box" builder, but this time poor realisation of main wheels made me to purchase resin wheels from "I-modelist" manufacturer. Really they look lovely for me and not too expensive. Also I've added beacons, lights on the edges of the wings, and applied masks from KV-models. In place of conclusion: Really - that's not the best one of my models, and I see a lot of disadvantages looking at it. But I really glad that it was enough of my patience to get this finished. And (to tell truth), I like it. I hope you'll enjoy watching this))) Criticism and remarks are welcome as usual! Respects, tMikha.

Hello there! Another one of my Airbus A-320 family. This is experimental model for me and it has own little history. So, it was about two years ago, when I started modelling. And once I've purchased Revell 1/144 kit. That time i was really about zero in theme, but I liked white plastic and noticed good connectivity of parts. But all we know what usually our first models look like 🤦‍♂️ There were all possible mistakes and fat layer of paint and lacquer painted with usual brush. It was Air Astana livery first. So, this terrible product of my model life activity stood on the shelve during long time. And once I've decided to make some experiment with reanimation of the model. Engines, undercarriage and tail stabilisers were disconnected. All paint was removed using 646-solvent. Then I placed weight into nose part (oops, I've forgotten about it first time) The model was covered with Decorix primer and painted with blue MAKR paint. Passenger and pilots windows were covered with putty and sanded. (I prefer to make transparent windows in any case, so I had great desire to keep windows transparent, but there was no other option - the plastic was completely dead, yellow and opaque. And I don't see the point in leaving a transparent cabin with a deaf cockpit) The fuselage and wings were reassembled, the joints were removed, and the engines were repainted. MAKR #16 yellow I've used for nose part. Gray colour for wings was mixed from Mr. Hobby #1 plus some Tamiya dark gray. I did not repaint the hot part of the engine and undercarriage - on closer inspection, it turned out that they were painted not much worse than I know how to paint them now. The choice of livery was also approached "creatively" this time. Usually I like more classic and strict liveries. But today we have an experiment so let's add some craziness. I've chosen Eurowings special decal from PAS. Pledge Future was used as lacquer prior and after decals. And one photo in before-after style you can find in the end, but I can't recommend it for people with a weak nervous system 😂 Respects, tMikha.

Hi! Got some new model kits in stock from Zvezda. Of these TOPOL SS-25, AIrbus A-320 and Sukhoi Su-27 SM are new releases: TOPOL SS-25 "Sickle" Missile Launcher 1/72 Airbus A-320 1/144 Sukhoi Su-27 SM Flanker B mod. 1 1/72 Older releases, new in stock: 1/35: Soviet Tank Infantry BMP-2 T-90 Main Battle Tank German Anti-Tank gun PAK 36 w. crew German Tank Crew 1943-1945 German Motorcycle R-12 with sidecar & crew Tiger I Ausf. E Early 1/48 : Yak-3 See prices and all Zvezdas in stock: http://tinyurl.com/msk6hrq For every kit there are matching colours from AKAN in stock, of course!