looking good!
John and Jon. thankyou.
I gave the plane an over all wash with black pastels, I’m working to get that eastern European winter look. Last year at this time I was in Budapest airport snowy and wet. Those planes got dirty. I placed the flaps in the down position more to follow.
Looking great. Flaps down add quite a lot.
yes it does take up space.
The latest pics with engines and tail.
The wheels are in place and gear doors. I gave a pastel wash over all then some raw umber oil paint streaks and what not, still some stuff to do.
I’m pretty much done with the weathering part. I did spray a light coat of Tamiya semi-gloss its the same effect I get when I shoot Tamiya’s flat clear thinned more then usual any way I had to gave it a try.
Will post finished pics after the 12/17 maintenance.
Nice model, crown r n7!
When I was in my pre-teens in the mid-1950s, I bought what I recall as a special edition of Air Progress magazine. It consisted of nothing but hundreds of small line drawings of international aircraft, perhaps 10 or 15 per page. I literally wore out that magazine, memorizing names and shapes of the most interesting aircraft. I was living in remote Southwestern New Mexico at the time, where aircraft of any type were few and far between.
I remember noticing that the illustrated aircraft were mainly German, British, French, and American. I assumed that meant that those countries were the only ones that were building airplanes — more evidence, to my politically immature mind, that the Soviet Union, the “Russians,” were so technologically behind that they couldn’t build airplanes! It’s not wrong to say that I was…wrong! Or that American and Soviet propaganda had effectively prevented me from knowing more about Russian aviation. Except for one plane, the MiG-15, which newsreels assured us were being downed by the score in Korea by superior Americans aircraft and pilots.
A few years ago, at a flea market here in Vancouver, I bought a plastic bag of perhaps 20 used Russian air letters that had been posted to various addresses in Canada and the U.S. Every one of them had a cachet (printed designs, text, and images at the left of the envelope) picturing Russian airliners. Here are two that pictured the IL-62:
Bob
Bobstamp. Thanks for stopping by and you comment. The airmail envelopes of those days brings back those memories and with onion skin paper ! The IL-62 was their flagship plane to our 707 until 1968. The IL-62 was to complete with the commet and the 707 but the IL-62 had some problems and was delayed.
I missed everything between the intro photo and now.
This is so very cool, Nick! [Y][Y] It has character, to say the very least.
Nice work, and I look forward to the finish pics. [Y][Y]
Aw Crown! That’s a really Pretty Boidy!
Greg. Thank you. I seen one in the Czech Rep. very big and rough looking jet.
T.B. Many thanks I gave it that many winters look.
I’m closeing this IL-62M along with 2020 bye bye…
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