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Ilyushin IL-2 Shturmovik - Tamiya 1/72


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Hi All - here's my recently finished Il-2 - built with the newish Tamiya kit - Kit was very nice and went together very easily. Painted with Tamiya acrylics for the most part, weathering with AK and Mig washes along with oils and pigments. Built pretty much OOB and used the kit decals - replaced the guns and pilot tube with needles and used mig rigging for the antennae. Also added an eduard PE seatbeat to the pilot seat and Brassen resin wheels. It was a very enjoyable build and really enjoyed using oil paints to weather the airframe - I seem to have turned a corner with this technique so I'm looking forward to doing more of this. 

 

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You can check out the WIP thread here: 

 

 

Thanks for watching :)

 

Cheers

 

John

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Great result.

 

The upper tricolour finish sand/ green/ grey looks spot on.

 

What paints/colours did you use particularly the sandy brown?

 

The Tamiya kit looks great ....did you do some extra riveting???

 

Cheers

 

Bruce

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Very nicely done. It's a shame the resin wheels aren't weighted though. I built an Airfix Hurricane with aftermarket, unweighted wheels and it still bugs me. Why would they go to all that trouble to produce resin wheels that are accurate, but don't look right?

 

Ian

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Thanks for the kind comments guys :)

 

5 hours ago, Winenut said:

What paints/colours did you use particularly the sandy brown?

Hi Winenut - I used Tamiya XF57 (Buff) cut with approx 30% XF52 (Flat Earth) - I think this gives you a much better representation of AMT 7 - The green is straight Tamiya XF62 Olive Green - and the grey is XF24 Dark Grey mixed with some XF85 rubber black - I'm not convinced I got the these last 2 colours right - I would lighten then up if I was doing it again - but I was happy with the tan brown and blue underside :)

 

5 hours ago, Winenut said:

The Tamiya kit looks great ....did you do some extra riveting???

The Tamiya kit is great and highly recommended - I had a hard time tracking down this kit - ended up buying it off a site in Japan but it was well worth the effort - I did rivet the other wings - looking at reference photos, these rivets were fairly visible but not so much on the rest of the airframe - the fuselage is mostly a wooden construction - early war versions where almost all wood construction but the Russians starting getting shipments of US aluminium later in the war... and put them to good use making Shturmoviks!

 

 Too much information...? :)

 

5 hours ago, limeypilot said:

Very nicely done. It's a shame the resin wheels aren't weighted though. I built an Airfix Hurricane with aftermarket, unweighted wheels and it still bugs me. Why would they go to all that trouble to produce resin wheels that are accurate, but don't look right?

 

Ian

Thanks Ian - I agree with you re. the weighted wheels - I've noticed that Eduard tend not to do this which is strange as their attention to detail is amazing in every other aspect... I could sanded down a side to make them look weighted but I often think this this looks strange without the accompanying bulge...? 

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There's not normally a bulge on any aircraft tyres I've seen! In fact I find the weighted wheels with a bulge almost worse than the unweighted ones. As you say, you can at least sand those down!

 

Ian

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