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Ratta-Tat-Tat, Polikarpov I-16


Beggsy

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I'm getting started!  Being in Australia gives me a good head start. :)

 

I'll be making this:

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And eating this:

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I may well be joined by @emily for this build, she's never done a Blitzbuild before so this will be fun!

 

Also keeping a watchful eye on proceedings (or maybe pro-seed-ings :P ) will be Pippin and Snowy.

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Wish us all luck!

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Not a lot of parts here, but a bit of flash on them.

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I've started putting the engine together, and the first pieces are ready for paint!

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Yep, cherries.  Having a french bakery only a block away from home is dangerous!

 

Progress has been made on the cockpit/centre section and the engine.  A little more complicated to put together than I expected, but lots of fun.  Not sure if I'll be able to keep the panels around it removable or not, but hoping to!

 

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Ducked out for a couple of hours, but now I'm back at it.  Here's the fuselage mostly together.  The little pieces that make up the cowling/inboard end of the wing leading edge were a pain to get in, but with enough wrestling eventually made it into place.

 

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It's also time for lunch!  Thanks to @emily for making a run to the bakery. :)

 

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The current state of play:

 

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Yes, those side panels are removable!  Unfortunately I'll be spraying the green again, as there's some clear overspray from doing the aluminium ring around the cowling :(

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Waiting for the panel line wash to dry enough to be removable now.  Next up it's decals, then some weathering, a semi-gloss coat, the landing gear wires and finally the canopy.

 

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A late-breaking decal emergency has required me to replace the fuselage stars with the only ones I had in the spares box :(

 

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Oh well.  One more coat of varnish over the new ones and this thing's done!

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Well, Flikr won't let me upload the last photo, but it's done.  I'm off to bed!  A full galery post will follow tomorrow.  Goodnight, and pleasure building with you!

 

Edit: It started working again:

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Impressive! Most impressive! I've always loved the little I-16. I have three or four of this very kit, so I can build various versions of the I-16. I suppose I need to get cracking on mine.

 

Regards,

 

Jason

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I know I said I was done.....

 

But this morning, I woke up, and I saw the model, and I just wasn't happy with that star.

 

Then I realised....I still had an hour and a half before my 24 were up!

 

So I carefully applied some masking tape to a corner of the star, and had at it with the Olive Green.  I then masked the next corner (hoping that Tamiya's paint would stick to the model better than the tape) and repeated around all 5 corners on each side.  It worked!!!!!

 

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So now, for real this time, I am done.

 

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Enjoy the rest of your builds everyone, and thanks for all the kind words!

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