Search the Community
Showing results for tags 'JBR decals'.
Found 3 results
-
Basically complete, perhaps some rigging and mirror to finish.
- 10 replies
-
- 13
-
-
Here is the second of the last two kits of 2019, both being Eduard's 1:144 Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-15UTI "Midget". This one represents 2832 of the AVRK (Royal Khmer Aviation), Cambodia, 1964 onwards. It was also built from an "overtrees" set with markings from JBr Decal's "Mighty Midgets" Part 1 sheet. Build notes are the same as for the other (Sri Lankan) MiG-15UTI so I won't repeat them. The kit was fully painted and varnished by brush and I made some weathering/painting experiments with pre and post shading with mixed results though I am pleased with it. I used RLM02 for the overall Grey-Green colour since I had nothing else and it seemed very much like the colour used on Cambodian MiG-17s. I did some pre-shading with black and post-shading with another green. Thank you for looking and all comments are welcome Miguel
-
Hello all! Here is one of the last two kits of 2019 that I managed to finish the day before leaving for my Christmas holidays last month, both being Eduard's 1:144 Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-15UTI "Midget". This one represents CF801 of No. 6 Sqn, Sri Lankan Air Force in the 1970s. It was built from an "overtrees" set with markings from JBr Decal's "Mighty Midgets" Part 1 sheet. The kit was built OOB just adding belts from Tamiya tape in the cockpit and the radio wire and replacing the overly thick wing pitot tube with one from stretched sprue. The kit went together well with most problems being of my own making but others were of the kit itself. Some parts needed to be well trimmed/cleaned up to fit properly, the most notable part being the canopy. I failed to get it 100% right and ended up having to do some sanding to blend the rear and filling some gaps with Kristal Klear. The big challenge was putting sufficient weight to avoid tail-sitting. I packed weight above the engine splitting plate, along the sides of the cockpit, below the cockpit and a little behind it. As a note, you CAN add the nose u/c AFTER joining the fuselage - it's a bit tricky but possible (I missed that and had to do it this way). The kit was fully painted and varnished by brush and I made some weathering/painting experiments with mixed results though I am pleased with it. Because of the way I did the dry-brushing (on gloss instead of on matt), I feel I overdid the weathering as I prefer a more subtle effect. Since I was working on a self-imposed deadline, I didn't try to fix it. Thanks for looking and all comments are welcome as always Miguel
