Eduard I-16 type 24 in 1/48th

Modeling Subjects Aircraft
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Hello all

Here is my I-16 painted up to represent red 34 of the Soviet Navy as see in the Balkans in 1942 (At least thats what I’m told.)

This is my very first Soviet subject and I built it simply because I love the novel looking shape. It’s kind of like an armed Gee Bee racer!

All of the markings are painted on, no decals. The chipping effects were done by spraying the base colors (which weren’t 100% accurate, but under all that white, no biggy). I then used a toothpick to dab on Elmer’s rubber cement to the places that I wanted the green to peak through. I find the rubber cement alot easier to control and much less caustic than the slat chipping method. Plus, you get nice random, round-edged chips instead of little squares from the crystals. After about and hour of placing the cement masking, I sprayed the white which was Tamiya XF-2 watered about 50/50 with alcohol. After that has about three hours to cure, I roll low tack tape over the surface to pull up the rubber cement and expose the paint underneath. Some spots are a little stubborn and require tweezers.

Well, I hope you like. Not to toot my own horn but this model took gold in it’s catagory at the IPMS Niagara Frontier’s show (BuffCon) last month. It was straight out of the box. I was stoked that I took a “regular” catagory with an OOB project!

Comments and critiques gladly accepted!

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Nice one justen. The chipping effect worked out very well.

Regards, Rick

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Congrats and well done, Justen!!

That’s one beauty of an I-16. Plus, I always am a bit partial towards the winter schemes. Great build and well deserved medal.

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Very nice Justin - Well done! [tup] I’m partial to winter schemes myself and me likey!

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Congrats! That bird desrves an award- it looks fabulous.

Only one thing to point out- you need to POST MORE PICS! [:D]

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Fabulous model Justin, I love it! The painting is awsome! Eduard makes great models.

Best regards,
Leo

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Nicely done, really like the chipping on the winter white wash. My only complaint is not enough pictures! [;)]

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Justen,

Very nice chipping effect - and thanks for telling how you accomplished it. I remember seeing this one at the Buffcon show - it’s even nicer “in-person” !

Chris

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Thanks for the compliments, guys! Sorry I only have the one pic right now. My PC is acting funny and I can’t seem to upload to photobucket for some reason. I snagged this pic off of our club website:

www.ipmsniagarafrontier.com

Every entry from the show is in the gallery section.

Bossman, thanks. It was really cool to meet some of the folks from these forums in person. BTW: Monday is the club meeting. Hint hint…

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Very nice indeed! Great work!!

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Love it, ive built one of those myself. Did you add the quirky wires that pull up the U/C (Retracted by hand) LOL. More pics would be soo cool though.

…Guy

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I’d love to man… but the only problem is that it’s about 80 miles away. (I’m east of Rochester) See you at the next Buffcon - or Rocon if you can make it.

Chris

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Absolutely toot yourown horn. you deserve it. That is one beautiful rat.

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Beautiful bulid there. I agree that the I-16 is a strangely attractive airplane. those exhaust stains and chipping are great!

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Don’t know what I can add to the accolades already posted. Outstanding work Justen! [bow]

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Stunning.

No other way to describe it.

Karl

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Wow!!! Impresive building my friend! I alwayas like this little felow! the paint job is exllent! congratulationes-1

best regards

Jeremias

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This is a very interesting plane with some great history! These planes seen quite a bit of action over Finland.

This is a very nice build and the finnish is excellent!

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Chris, I’ll be there…

Thanks again for all the kind words guys. I’ll try to get some more pics up soon. I have to show the weird retraction wires. [;)] I broke the first three stretched sprue wires before I threw in the towel and used the invisible mending thread. Much more durable.