Old Airfix, 1/72; Built OOB, there was quite a bit of sanding involved to get everything lined up. Its a shame about all those raised rivets!
I used this kit more as a canvas to practice some airbrushing. The main camo was airbrushed and then I applied the squiggles with a fine tip paintbrush. Decals came from the spares bin, as the originals were old and crusty…
Cool retro box, though!
The -189s had some fun schemes to choose from. I based this scheme off a pic I found:
The panel line wash on the underside has shown a couple of areas where I lost some panel line detail. Most of what was on the original plastic was raised rivets, and those got blasted away during all the filling and sanding work I did. That meant I had to guess where all the lines were supposed to be.
Now that looks like an old kit, even I can’t remember box’s like that in the shops. You have done a great job in it, especially that scheme. Really nice.
Great job mate! That was one of the first kits that I built when I was around 12-13 yrs old. An unusual, but cool looking plane. I didn’t do the squiggly camo scheme, just the two green camo version.
