Linescriber Posted May 16, 2020 Share Posted May 16, 2020 This is the Aeropoxy Resin 1/48 Gnat Mk I/Ajeet (Invincible). After building roughly 270 Gnats at HAL and its outstanding performance against Pakistani Sabres and F 104s the Gnat was upgraded by adding an extra indoard hardpoint on each wing to take extra payload including Soviet UB-16-57 Rocket pods, a new Martin Baker Mk 9 seat, new avionics and fuel in the wings. The aircraft was rechristened the 'Ajeet" (Invincible) and was built from 1977 to 84. I chose to do it as an Ajeet from 2 Sqn "Winged Arrows" from the early 90s just before retirement at Kalaikunda. The model had to be converted by using two extra inboard pylons and UB-16-57 Russian rocket pods and modifying the seat to a Martin-Baker Mk 9. I used a salt spray over silver and then painted the camouflage of Russian green and Olive by Vallejo followed by careful sanding to bring out the silver. The crest and numeral '2' on the rudder are hand-painted with a decal numeral in the crest. National markings are Bright Spark and serials by tally Ho. The model shape is a bit short on length and the undercarriage had to be modified to get the sit more or less right. took a ton of steel balls in the nose. Pics of the real aircraft by Peter Steinemann. 23 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Graeme H Posted May 16, 2020 Share Posted May 16, 2020 Love it, tremendous weathering Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Abandoned Project Posted May 16, 2020 Share Posted May 16, 2020 Fantastic weathering. Great model. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMCS Posted May 16, 2020 Share Posted May 16, 2020 Niiiice Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wulfman Posted May 17, 2020 Share Posted May 17, 2020 Love it, great job on the weathering ! Wulfman Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Troy Smith Posted May 17, 2020 Share Posted May 17, 2020 Great model.. I have a Aeroclub Gnat F.1 stashed for this project.. Great reference photos as well, thanks for posting them cheers Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gary Brantley Posted May 17, 2020 Share Posted May 17, 2020 Very kewl! 😎 I like seeing types like this that we don't often see modeled. Great scale modeling indeed! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Linescriber Posted May 17, 2020 Author Share Posted May 17, 2020 Thanx gents!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
exdraken Posted May 17, 2020 Share Posted May 17, 2020 Wow!! What a scheme! Great job Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PranayKumar99 Posted May 18, 2020 Share Posted May 18, 2020 Great build sir Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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