Flankerman Posted December 1, 2019 Author Share Posted December 1, 2019 With all the major components in place, it's time for a coat of grey primer....... Top View.... .... and the undersides... It is getting hard to handle now - it's just so BIG..... trying to hold it without knocking the wings..... Ken 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flankerman Posted December 15, 2019 Author Share Posted December 15, 2019 Seasons Greetings....... Some slow progress....... The K-36 ejection seat is made up from 22 Parts...... This isn't so much modelling as micro-surgery - especially at my age with failing eyesight ! It isn't helped by the fact the some of the mm-sized parts have flash to be cleaned off - anyway here's the result... Here's my ham-fisted attemp - there is an etched-brass harness still to be added !!! Meanwhile, the airframe has had a couple of coats of Halfords White Plastic Primer (from a rattle can) - followed by a misted top coat of Halfords Appliance White (rattle can)..... The lower fuselage now has to be masked off for a coat of Light Aircraft Grey (I'm using Halfords Ford Polar Grey - which is a good match)... Then it's more masking for the blue wing and tailplane leading edges plus the canopy surround, followed by the red wing and taiplane tips. Have a Great Christmas.... Ken 8 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flankerman Posted January 20, 2020 Author Share Posted January 20, 2020 Some little progress.... she's all painted up now - ready for the decals..... Trying to hold the model whilst applying the masking, then brush painting the blue, red and black was like trying to wrestle a set of bagpipes.... Modesvit provide self-adhesive masks for the blue areas around the cockpit and the black panel on the spine - but for the the rest I used Tamiya Kabuki tape..... My masking was not very successful - I had some ragged edges and bleed under the tape in places - it's OK if you don't look too closely...... Holding it whilst applying the fuselage decals without damaging anything is going to be interesting.... Ken 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kushan_Farsight Posted January 20, 2020 Share Posted January 20, 2020 I was sad that this wasn't available in 1/48, as it would have been a nice 'What-If' Stablemate to go alongside my ancient Italeri U2-C kit......... But if its 52cm wingspan at 1/72............. 🤪 Looking great though...... and good work with that ejection seat.... 22 parts at that scale would probably end up with half dozen of the smaller parts sacrificed to the carpet monster! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flankerman Posted January 27, 2020 Author Share Posted January 27, 2020 The decalling is now done....... .... apart from the trillions of tiny yellow 'hook here' symbols and stencil data etc... The decals are superb - perfectly readable and in register - they all went on with the minimum of fuss. I used Microsol - but probably didn't need to. A closer view of the dozens of sponsors logos along the fuselage.... Underside view.... A closer look at those logos - all individual decals a few mm in diameter...... I can't think of a reason why but not all of the decals were oriented vertically - which led to a couple of mistakes until I spotted it... Once you know about it, the decal placement artwork is just about good enough to see which way up they go..... And.... confusingly(at least to me!), the decal placement guide is not in numerical sequence - left to right it's decals 6,5,8,3,2 etc A minor issue that isn't really a problem.... Here's a couple of pics I took at MAKS 2013 - showing the real thing...... This shows how good the Modelsvit decals really are... Now to tackle all those stencil decals..... Ken 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neil5208 Posted January 27, 2020 Share Posted January 27, 2020 Decals look very nice Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vultures1 Posted January 27, 2020 Share Posted January 27, 2020 Looking great Ken! That is quite a monster - I liked the 'wrestling bagpipes' comparison. Decals look to be spot-on Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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