Greetings. I'm a new forum member. This website is quite enjoyable.

I'm happy to contribute these photos of my just-completed Eduard Polikarpov I-16 (Type 24), in 1:48 scale. Your comments are most welcome, I have very thick skin!

Thank you-
Mark/USA

Hi Mark

Welcome to Aeroscale! Your little donkey is looking great!! I like it !!

As always I have a small nit pick :-) .. to my eye the green looks a bit dark and blueish .. as i said a minor complaint
cheers

Steffen

Hi Mark!

Beautiful! Restrained weathering, discrete chipping of the prop; you did a lovely job.

look forward to seeing more of your work!

Regards,

Ed

Outstanding and welcome!

Really a nice job on the plane, on my PC monitor the color looks good.

How did you like the kit? My LHS has this in stock and I have been eyeing it.

-Derek

Hi and welcome to the family Mark. I hope that you'll enjoy your stay here with us. Your Rata looks great!

Overall, I would give the kit high marks. Surface detail is very good, and the kit comes with photo-etch parts, as well as canopy and wheel masks, which fit beautifully. The decals went on like butter, and look painted on, just beautiful. On the downside, there will be some fit issues when you join the front cowl to the fuselage, extensive dry-fitting and adjusting will be necessary. Also, the instruction sheet has a glaring error: on Page 7, parts E2 and E36 (landing gear outer doors) are labeled in reverse. Follow the drawing, not the numbers. Additionally, the exhaust pipes are not very realistic, I replaced mine with heat-shrink tubing. But the kit is worth every penny.

..........and loads of talent it would appear! Great job! Everything looks beautiful, and yes, those decals DO look painted on.
The only issue I have is that it's not sitting in my display case.
Well done!

You are not going to use your thick skin on this one A really nice piece of work.

Welcome to the forum

Hi Mark!

Welcome to Aeroscale! This is a very fine model, congratulations!

Do you have more like that?

Jean-Luc

Thank you, Jean-Luc. Yes, I do have more.. a whole display case full. I will post some more of my projects soon.

Hi again Mark!

That's great! I can't wait to see more...

Jean-Luc

Hi Mark. Very, very nice. Great build all around. You did a great job on the weathering, it looks very clean[seams, glue marks, etc.] Would like to see more of your work, welcome aboard. You'll find very friendly and supportive fellow modellers here on the best modelling site on the web. Please post some more of your work, Wingman out.

Man that thing is gorgeous. Not an attractive aircraft but certainly a very attractive model.

Outstanding job

Thank you kindly, Scott. Yeah, I seem to be disturbingly attracted to ugly planes, for some strange reason. Can't wait to start my SB2C! Yick!

-Mark