Dean, yes. Wheels up and tons of missiles. This model is intended to hang from the ceiling of a high school room and be impressively large.
Looking more closely at the MiG photo, I think that you should be able to do most of the weathering with a heavy dark grey or black preshade, the two camo colors and then more progressively lightened mixes of those paints to keep dulling down and lightening the finish. You might not be able to go too far in color shifting as there’s not much color vibrancy in those two camo paints to start with.
In some ways, that aircraft looks like an over-weathered model…
And now there’s camo… MM enamel Flanker colors (Pale Blue, Medium Blue and Blue/Grey) mixed with about 25% Gloss White. I’ma let this dry overnight and tomorrow begin to mask stuff off. I’ll use white instead of green for the nose and other panels just because it looks better IMO and then do the engine panel metallics lastly.
The Flanker is such a good looking plane Dre. I have to say the real mig does look a bit like a model, which is an unusual way about things. I think I have done the dark grey camo wrong as it is a very pale blue, it looks great but isn’t right, so I think I might just keep it anyway as Revell have painted theirs grey and blue. I will get some quality pictures today and get them posted either tonight or Wednesday when I’m next off work.
Thanks guys, I’m pleased with it so far. Personally, and IMHO, the Flanker is the best looking modern-era twin engine jet period. To me, its lines embody the idea of ‘strength in beauty’.
Going to start masking in a minute, I think that I might use some sort of grey paint instead of the white for the nose cone and panels… this model is more of a paint guinea pig than originally intended.
Well what seems to be the case is that Revell have done a blue/grey camo, but the real aircraft tjat Revell used was grey/dark grey as you see in the picture. I have faded the blue and it actually has taken on a worn faded look, as I used smoke to highlight the panel lines foe the first time which gave pleasing results. It’s sort of trial and error with the paint but the paint is so weather beaten in the walk around pictures it actually looks even better when I make a slight mistake, its weird. I will post the likn so you can see what I mean as the picture I posted doesn’t illustrate this well.
Here’s the link: file:///C:/Users/Owner/Downloads/MIG%2029UB%20Walkaround.htm
When you see the pictures you will see what I mean as the exact colour is quite hard to determine, I have not seen such worn out paintwork on an aircraft.
It will take some aggressive work to replicate that. That clear Smoke is the thing for easy post paint shading and it plays well with Future.
The masked painting is done and I had to do a bunch of touch-up work with the 3 camo colors to fix really nasty bare spots where the tape pulled the paint off… pics later when the dust settles.
I’ve seen it explained & demonstrated, it makes sense to my “graphic designer’s brain”, but I have yet to try it. Not only would it fade/weather the underlying paint, but it should also help blend various camo colours. Need to grab a handful of oils & give it a shot one of these days.
The enamels are nice, but I still had a lot of paint pull off the plastic when I removed the fin and wing masks… a few decals on it for color, I’ll finish the decals tonight and start detail painting stuff.
From the lessons I’ve learned on painting this one, my Su-27UB C ought to turn out much nicer.
Thanks, but I think that the first camo pattern was better than how it looks after the touch-ups… everything about this particular model is a PITA, so I’ll be happy to see the last of it on Thursday.
Lol yeah you do get em, man these Revell decals look great but man theyre damn thick, even with Revells decal soft solution they don’t settle into the recesses, post shading should sort that out though.
Well, sorry, I dropped off for a bit but I did make my way to the LHS to pick up my much needed paint! Now I can finally get back to work on the MiG-21! Hope to post something soon!
