ICM 1/32 I-153 Chaika

[Stew Dapple]

Hello gents  

 

Here's my latest (and probably last) completion for 2022, the ICM 1/32 Polikarpov I-153 Chaika, in the markings of No.102 of 71 IAP flown by Petr Biskup in the Summer of 1942:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The kit was a nice easy build, as most of the ICM 1/32 kits seem to be. I didn't add much, just cobbled together a set of harness from HGW fabric seatbelt leftovers and added the rigging from 0.2mm nickel-silver rod (which didn't turn out as well as I'd hoped, to be frank).

 

Paints used were Colourcoats ACS02 - AMT7 Blue, ACS08 - AMT-4 Olive-Green and ACS04 - AMT-6 Black (which I un-blacked a bit with some dark grey). Interior and undercarriage bays were, variously, ACS21 - A14 Steel Grey, ACS05 - WUP Grey Interior Primer and ACS03 - AII Green (based on various pictures of preserved or restored aircraft so may not be accurate but are at least effectively invisible on the finished model.)

 

The kit transfers were used, as far as I know for the only markings option which carried the RS-82 rockets. This aicraft had the undercarriage covers removed to save weight.

 

A couple of useful references if you are building a I-153:

 

https://massimotessitori.altervista.org/sovietwarplanes/pages/i15/i-153/i-153painting/i-153painting.htm

 

https://massimotessitori.altervista.org/sovietwarplanes/pages/i15/i-153/tapani/71iap-kbf/71iap-kbf.htm

 

Thanks for your attention gents  

 

Cheers, 

 

Stew

[Epeeman]

Nice work as usual, Stew -

 

This is a good kit from ICM too

 

Regards

 

Dave

[Luke1199]

Lovely work, Stew! 

[spitfire]

That looks great, it conjures up images of the early days of WW2 on the Eastern front.

 

Cheers

 

Dennis

[georgeusa]

Superb build of this early war Russian fighter.  It is such a clean build, spot-on paint job, and great rigging to boot.  Thanks for sharing.

[k5054nz]

A lovely machine (I always enjoyed seeing them fly) and a lovely build. Bravo! I'd love to build one of these one day.

[Learstang]

Great job on the Chaika, Stew! I have one of these myself, which I look forward to building - it looks like a very nice kit and obviously very nice results can be obtained with it.

 

Regards,

Jason

[AliGauld]

A beauty Stew.

Looks utterly gorgeous.

 

Cheers,

Alistair

[El Búho de Sevilla]

What a bird! I really love this plane. Might be it'd look a bit more interesting in a Khalkhyn Gol camouflage, but this one - from the tragic first two years of the WWII Eastern front - looks like a true monument to the countless Red Air Forces pilots perished then.