Many thanks Michal

Your kind words are much appreciated!

It certainly has been fun to build something again after quite a while, and I've also used it as a perfect excuse to try out the new Neo airbrush for real.

All the best

Rowan

Wow! Looks fantastic, Rowan. Stunning build and great datail. That camouflage really came out nice. Is it freehand or did you mask with putty?

Looking forward to see more.

Love that Digicam MiG-29 Jesper

Lap Man: That's one clean MiG-15, nicely done.

Rowan: Looks like the MiG-21's come along very nicely, did you replace the airbrakes?

Not to be too pedantic, but if you're dividing rabbits that's MiG 17PF (or rather a Shenyang J5A).

Very beautiful crisp build.

Rowan, fantastic work on your MiG-21. Always liked that aircraft. Tell us what colors you used to paint your bird, including interior color of the cockpit. Thanks, Russell

Hi again

Thank you everyone, you're all very kind. I'm way outside my usual "comfort zone" of WW2-ish era subjects, but I must admit I've thoroughly enjoyed building the MiG-21 so far.

@ Jesper - I used putty to mask the division between the upper and lower surfaces, but the topside camo's all freehand. I partly thought this would be a more useful test for the airbrush, but I was also just being plain lazy - it was far easier to paint freehand than worry about all the masking needed!

@ Adam - Eduard mould the airbrakes closed and include separate inserts if you want to open them. For the sake of the review I thought it was worth seeing how well they fit...

@ Russell - the painting is a bit of a mish-mash, doing my best (without going overboard) to match the FS equivalents that Eduard give with the paints I had to hand:

Topsides - LifeColor RLM 81 and 82, Wood Warm Dark Shade (from their diorama series) and LifeColor Nocciola 4 with a dash of Xtraxrylix RAF Dark Earth .
Undersides - a mix of RLM 65 and Tornado Interiors (modern Italian set).
The interior blue was matched as closely as I could to the Eduard etch colour - Citadel Hawk Turquoise, white and a dash of LifeColor's rather vivid Interior Green.

Thanks again and all the best

Rowan

Thanks Rowan for your response! I am trying to put together a Sukhoi campaign and this was prompted by me buying a Trumpeter 1/72 scale Su-15 TM "Flagon". I thought it would be an interesting diversion from WW2 subjects which I normally model as well.

It seems to me that some German colors can be used to paint these Russian birds! RLM 81/82/65 or 76 seems to be the order of the day on some of these aircraft. It is close at least if not exact. Thanks again, Russell

Thanks for your correction.

Just about done with my entry, just the a quick wash and some missiles left.





More soon, hopefully....

Nick.

Very nice work there Nick. MiG 23/27 I believe. What scale and what kit please? Also what colors did you use on your bird? A nice, nice job and I enjoyed looking. Russell

Seems like there's a number of great looking builts. I just joined this campaign.

I'm going to use an Italeri 1/72nd Mig-29A to represent a RMAF Mig-29N. I have yet to start but hopefully I could finished it in time. I just need to look for an inflight refuelling probe or try to scratch built it. If no IR probe could be found or the scratch built is unsucessful, I'll just have to settle for the scheme just after delivery in 1995.

PART V! For VICTORY!(?)

Small update, sorry for the wait (if anyone actually WAS waiting....)
but life got in the way for a bit.

About all that has happened since the last post was one million billion rivets, and then the attachment of zee
tailplanes.




(sorry, PB saved it sideways like that; don't know how to rotate it from PB )

I was worried about them being overly visible later in the build, so I went ahead and gave the whole bird
a light sanding with some very very fine wet-or-dry. Now, I'm worried they may completely disappear under
primer + paint. We shall see; I may need to lightly go over some of them between the primer and the camo
layers. The rivets have been highlighted with an alcohol marker and then the excess removed with....
you guessed it, rubbing alcohol, in order to make them more visible for the pics.

If this works out, next time I may use a black alky marker and see if that will work as a sort of
'pre-shade' for zee rivets.

Until later this week (hopefully),
Tchűβ!

Ooooooh...rivets... I tell you what, if those rivets pop out through the final camo, that will be a very impressive sight! Hope to see the final product soon! (Well I guess we don't have too much longer to see a final product, do we? )

Impressive rivets, Eric. Looks great. Hope they will be visible after the paint.

Great freehand painting, Rowan!

These are some of my in progress pics of my Italeri 1/72nd Mig-29A converted to a RMAF Mig-29N

The assembled plane


The scratch-built IR probe (not 100% accurate though)


Test fit of the IR Probe. The 3 small antennas infront of the windscreen and 2 small antennas below were later removed.


Airbrushed black panel lines and primary grey colour.


green camo airbrushed.


I'll try to complete it on time...

Looking good everybody. You got just shy of two week to finish....see you at the finish line. Don't forget to post a pic in the gallery too. Thanks, "Q"

Hi all

this is my MiG-21MF (1/48 Eduard) it is done, but I plan to add some armament later (I have kind of a burn out at the moment as I spent the whole past week finishing it for our IPMS Show in Berlin). Sadly one of the static dischargers got lost in transit


(sorry for the bad pic, I forgot my camera there and now had to take the picture with the mobile)

all the best

Steffen

Sorry guy's but mine will be a none finisher, only have one and half days left this month when I'm not working so the Mig will have to stay in its hanger for the time being. It'll be finished before the years out and I'll post a pic then, but no chance for the campaign.

Some great builds and it's been fun.

PART SIX! sExY SIX!

Well, would've made another post earlier, but a snafu took the wind out my sails for a bit, and I had assuage my hurt by.... hurting myself on an old Airfix kit lol.

Had her all sealed up and ready for spray; but while concocting the pilots rear view mirror atop the canopy, I realized......
I FORGOT TO ADD A FRIKKIN GUNSIGHT.
So after a few days of stewing (and bashing about on some other old plastic)
I came back and popped the canopy back off, luckily without damage to anything.

Here we have Monsieur Gunsight, as well as the wind deflector for the poor soul who occupies the back seat... Thought I may as well make that while I have the top off, even though pictures show these planes with OR without one.


And here is the rather innocuous little bit of plastic that is the mirror, what caused me to realize I had forgotten said little gunsight.


So she'll be getting sealed back up, possibly re-masked with Bare Metal Foil this time, and hopefully have primer on tomorrow morning.

Completed.





Cheers,
Nick.

Nice work! Looking forward to seeing every last MiG completed in a week...

Hi again

Not much of an update other than one of those classic "Dohh!" moments...



Eduard mention painting the nose ring Dark Iron in the instructions, so I completely missed that it should be camouflaged for the colour scheme I've done! So - time for careful repaint later...

All the best

Rowan

Hello comrades-

> Lap Man, nice clean job on your MiG
> Erik, your UTI is going to look fantastic!
> Merlin - Ditto for your SMT. I'm the kind of bum that would just live with the intake ring color as-is (but then again, I'm also the kind of bum that would ruin mine trying to fix it)

My entry is in the gallery...
MPM 1:72 MiG-9 - the original operational jet-powered MiG. Hopefully you will find it an interesting comparison to all of its progeny in the gallery.

The kit is a dog, but I knew what I was getting into with a first-generation MPM kit, so I don't hold that against them. Much reworking was required for the exhaust area, in particular. I had to make an intake cover because the intake is primitive and I needed more space for nose weight. There was also the usual Dremel tool fun grinding down the inside so that the cockpit parts would fit.

Last photo was taken by Gerald (Hawkeye) Voigt:

Thanks for a good campaign - I'll be watching the rest of the finishes!

Regards-
Tom

Hi again

More of a proper update - the mucky bit! X8-



All messed up with nice dollop of oil paint gunge. The weathering could well be a bit overdone - I never can really tell quite what the result will be at this stage - but I'm aiming for a bit of a "cold-war weary" look.

All the best

Rowan

Hey Rowan...I like what you're showing us! Now please no one roll your eyes at me, but what exactly are you doing to weather your bird? It looks pretty simple, but I've never done anything like it. Is there an article or a feature on the forums you could point me towards for help? Thanks in advance, and keep up the great work!