Ah actually I have one question for anyone who would know, I am doing the stencils for the 1/32 mig and Revell give you about ten thousand million stencils but on the real walk around pictures of the Mig there are none at all, so can I assume thats how it is? or what? I though all jets had markings everywhere as the instructions give loads but on the real thing there’s none.
Yep, got a Flanker close to decals (for a different GB, but I’ll post a finished pic here too) and several others in the close-to-finished stage. I’ll be starting the Fitter shortly. I like the “unusual” stuff, especially when talking Cold War & newer aircraft. It’s the Italeri boxing of a molding from Bilek.
Yeah, it is 27" long without the pitot tube. I’ve left the pitot tube, AOA indicator and other probes and antennae off until late tonight when i get them painted and then installed… they’ll be superglued so they can get knocked off and replaced easily.
As far as the stencils go… I guess that factory fresh jet has all of them, an operational jet… I don’t know.
I know that the Ukrainian Frogfoots got a respray that seems to have covered over all of the factory stenciling. I guess that it depends on how much time you want to spend putting them on?
I don’t lol, well I really want to do it as close to the picture as possible so I guess I will remove what I’ve done a shame but I really want to make it as realistic as possible. So I wonder It does look good with the stencils but not as realistic? soo and some of them have silvered FFS so I think that’s the decider. No stencils. I used super glued one pence pieces as nose weight so I will be using scale aircraft conversions landing gear as plastic I think will not be strong enough.
True, I almost wonder if they use a lower-quality paint for most stencils, filly expecting it to be worn away or overpainted during maintenance. I don’t often bother with stencils on my typical small-scale kits. It’s a pain and the decal film is just as likely to be noticed as the actual stencil in 1/72 scale.
You can always tone down the look of the stencils with a fading overspray- I used one on the Flanker and it added a nice, subtle faded look to the upper surface markings- the red stars look a little paler and pinker than factory fresh.
Also, some of them are in yellow, so they might be there but hard to see and quicker to fade than other colors…
I removed them all and have used Tamiya rust around the rivets the painting is most important on this model so I will really dirty it up and try not to over do it lol, easy to do.
I really want to see some photos of this…
I have tried to post them but I’m getting a new camera on Friday so I promise I will get some up online Friday night after a trip to the beer tent outside City Hall lol.
I just saw my Mig 23 got published on the reader gallery! Very pleased with that!!
Magazine-published, or website-published?? I’ll have to take a look at it, have been increasingly interested in the MiG23 lately for some reason.
Congratulations!!
Website
Thanks Dre, that’s 9 now, they’re probably sick of me by now lol.
Why? From what I’ve seen of your work, you should have them in print. That Flogger still stands out in my mind.
Thanks Dre, well I have to say the Flogger was a very popular model, I took it to a show in Belfast and it was on display in the Model Shop there, I am hoping one day FSM will put a picture of mine in the magazine, but having said that I probably need to reach a higher standard, I have been thinking for a while about doing a build and writing it up and sending it in as a contribution that would be really really great. But I have no time currently, another 12 hour day beckons ahhhhh, see you guys tonight.
When your time permits, then you ought to do that. If anything, the process of writing and photographing the article might give you some new insight or clarity of vision…
The Flanker is gone, some of the kids thought it was really cool, a few of them couldn’t believe it was OOB and most were happy to dose off while I rambled on. Several of them from the last class stuck around to ask modeling related questions and seemed eager to learn a few things about getting a better model.
There were close to 100 aircraft of various scales hanging from the ceiling and a few showed some nascent talent for the hobby but most were obviously completed by first-and-last time builders. The USAAF/USAF/USN were abundantly represented with a brace of German 109’s and a French Mirage of some sort. Someone had rigged a parachutist jumping from a C-130, some commercial jetliners, a few WWI biplanes with rigging and a nicely rigged Wright Bros. Flyer.
It was interesting to see that the completed student kits were overwhelmingly built for OOB accuracy and only a few done in “that looks cool to me” styles… the blue Stuka, a harlequin bomber and a pink A-10 were the stand-outs from that school of thought.
I believe that I failed to adequately stress the importance of patience… I forget that teenagers have a different idea of time than do I.
I can’t believe you managed to get teenagers to listen to anything lol, well I’m glad to see your Flanker was well received and the kids liked it.
Yep, time to move on to finishing up some other stuff…
HS group project?? Cool!