srkirad Posted December 25, 2019 Share Posted December 25, 2019 First and first, Mery Christmas to all who celebrate today! All the best wishes, and may the sprue&glue be with us through whole next year! I've planned to participate North American Aviation GB (host: @trickyrich), but unfortunately GB didn't make it to the final group during bunnpoll, so why not build it then in this new GB category? Until the start of the build, I'll put this boxart as a placeholder - it will be replaced with the photo of sprues... I won't tell you yet what do I have on my mind in terms of markings and livery, let it be a surprise in a way but for sure it will be kind of a exotic one! Cheers, S. 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Enzo the Magnificent Posted December 25, 2019 Share Posted December 25, 2019 looks good! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JOCKNEY Posted December 25, 2019 Share Posted December 25, 2019 Good luck with this one Cheers Pat 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
srkirad Posted January 7, 2020 Author Share Posted January 7, 2020 Well, off we go with this one! I didn't cut off any parts from sprue yet, but they've been given some colour, just to be in line with NY's and Xmas holidays' joyfulness Decals are Lift Here made, as I will represent one of JRV (Jugoslovensko Ratno Vazduhoplovstvo - Yugoslav Air Force) birds... can you guess which one of these it will be? 🤐 Cheers, S. 10 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grandboof Posted January 10, 2020 Share Posted January 10, 2020 Good luck with this . Looks like a little gem . The yellow Aerobatic one is my guess . Looking forward to your progress Martin H 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mjwomack Posted January 14, 2020 Share Posted January 14, 2020 I vote yellow as well, if that's light blue in with it then It's pretty much the home and away colours of Cambridge United so please do that one! M Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
srkirad Posted January 15, 2020 Author Share Posted January 15, 2020 You guessed my intentions Yellow represents plane from first Aerobatic team of Yugoslav Air Force - it didn't have name in that stage, and they flew 5 Sabres (I think it was 5) painted in Yellow/PRU Blue, so I chose this one as regular ones are a bit boring. Anyway, I've made floor and back wall of cockpit from styrene as line of join of fuselage halves would be very visible. They are painted in black now, wheelbays are painted in Interior Green, and I've added some ballast from lead pellet, fixing it with Kristal Klear. Cheers, S. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CliffB Posted February 1, 2020 Share Posted February 1, 2020 A fabulous choice S. and it's particularly nice that it's in 1/144 scale. Quite a few aerobatic teams used the F-86. I'm wondering whether it was the most widely used aerobatic aircraft of all time? Cheers 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
srkirad Posted February 1, 2020 Author Share Posted February 1, 2020 4 hours ago, CliffB said: A fabulous choice S. and it's particularly nice that it's in 1/144 scale. Quite a few aerobatic teams used the F-86. I'm wondering whether it was the most widely used aerobatic aircraft of all time? Thanks Cliff, at the moment fuselage is already joined, but having a few iterations of putty-sand-putty-sand on the joins - I think my decision to add some lead balast made a bit worse join of halves, so they were missaligned on places. It will be ready for engraving of lost panel lines soon, but I work on this one more relaxed as GB lasts until NY - in moments I have a pause on other GBs' entrants... Yeah, interesting notice about aerobatic Sabres - now I'm thinking about all of those aerbatic teams, and yes, they mostly have different aircraft in inventory, and Sabre was active in few of them. Cheers, S. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
srkirad Posted February 2, 2020 Author Share Posted February 2, 2020 Today I had some time to spare beetween other builds, so I've engraved lost panel lines on fuselage halves join, and inserted cockpit parts onto their position. Cheers, S. 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corsairfoxfouruncle Posted February 2, 2020 Share Posted February 2, 2020 Its always impressive to see these small builds with something for scale in the photo. It really does give a sense for just how tiny they really are. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
srkirad Posted February 12, 2020 Author Share Posted February 12, 2020 Wings and horizontal stabilizers were glued to the fuselage. I did small correction on tail section - there was a gap underneath tail, and beetween tail and exhaust - small piece of 0.25mm styrene sheet fixed that gap. Cheers, S. 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
srkirad Posted February 16, 2020 Author Share Posted February 16, 2020 Minor progress around cockpit... ...cockpit edges painted in matt black, and modified/scratchbuilt loop antenna for radio compass behind pilot seat. I've made it from stretched clear sprue, and moulded into semispheric hole. Antenna was drilled from bottom side and painted into yellow... It turned out a bit overscale and more flat than it should be, but having on mind size of it, I think it is similar to the original Cheers, S. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nimrod54 Posted February 16, 2020 Share Posted February 16, 2020 Great work S, it will be a good representation of what is actually there when you get the canopy on. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
srkirad Posted April 10, 2020 Author Share Posted April 10, 2020 Canopy took its place. I had some trouble masking windshield - it's soooo tiny that I gave up using Tamiya masking tape and used Blutack instead. First layer of primer was Black Surfacer around cockpit area. Cheers, S. 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corsairfoxfouruncle Posted April 10, 2020 Share Posted April 10, 2020 24 minutes ago, srkirad said: had some trouble masking windshield - it's soooo tiny that I gave up using Tamiya masking tape and used Blutack instead. Liquid mask and white glue work good as masks also. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
srkirad Posted April 13, 2020 Author Share Posted April 13, 2020 Today I've sprayed primer - Mr. Surfacer 1500 Grey Cheers, S. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
srkirad Posted August 16, 2020 Author Share Posted August 16, 2020 After few months finally found some time to dedicate to this one.... I've sprayed white on middle parts of panels as some kind of preshading for yellow livery - grey panel lines will be a bit darker when yellow layer cover white one... Cheers, S. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
srkirad Posted August 17, 2020 Author Share Posted August 17, 2020 "Inverse" preshading did succeed although it's not very visible on these photos... I'll leave paint to cure while I think of how to make masks for blue in most efficient way... Cheers, S. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
srkirad Posted November 22, 2020 Author Share Posted November 22, 2020 There have been quite a few lazy months for this one - I couldn't make myself to cutout masks for those yellow and blue stripes, but here we are after the job is done! I've scaled drawing of this livery to the 1/144, and printed it out on tracing paper. Then I just put some Tamiya tape over that printout, and cut off desired areas. It actually wasn't so hard to do it as I imagined, given the size of the kit On few places masks are maybe a bit missaligned, but overall I think it turned out pretty well... Simulation of PRU Blue was done with Gunze H42. Now it's only left to paint grey dielectric panel on tail, and antiglare area around cockpit and canopy, and we're heading for gloss varnish before decals... Cheers, S. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Col. Posted November 23, 2020 Share Posted November 23, 2020 This one is going well for you S. Isn't is strange how the jobs we often loose momentum on while avoiding turn out to be far easier than we anticipate. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
srkirad Posted December 8, 2020 Author Share Posted December 8, 2020 Few more details were painted, and decals are set on their place. Not so far from the end of the work on this one Cheers, S. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
srkirad Posted December 14, 2020 Author Share Posted December 14, 2020 Wash is applied - mix of artistic oils - black, white and a bit of raw umbra for wheelbay. Cheers, S. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
srkirad Posted December 20, 2020 Author Share Posted December 20, 2020 Aaaaaand.. chequered flag! Cheers, S. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corsairfoxfouruncle Posted December 20, 2020 Share Posted December 20, 2020 Well done on this. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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