Softscience Labs 2.5
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Terrific paintwork. Love the panel lines
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Thanks, Daz
And from the bottom.
Nearly done now. Just exhausts and a few aerials and pitot.
No R-60 missiles because, like an IDIOT. I began applying a dark wash to them and now they look like they got kicked around a garbage dump and chewed up by mice. When I get Trumpy's MiG-29 UB I'll rob a set from it and put them on this.
And from the bottom.
Nearly done now. Just exhausts and a few aerials and pitot.
No R-60 missiles because, like an IDIOT. I began applying a dark wash to them and now they look like they got kicked around a garbage dump and chewed up by mice. When I get Trumpy's MiG-29 UB I'll rob a set from it and put them on this.
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Re: Softscience Labs 2.5
That is a fantastic looking MiG, Ralph. Shame about the R-60 missiles, are they beyond salvation?
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Re: Softscience Labs 2.5
Shawn, they were pretty messed up. I robbed a a second set of R-73 from the Trump MiG-31 (another great kit), and put them on the outer stations.
The model is essentially done. Some things are still drying. I'll take glamour shots later today or tomorrow.
The model is essentially done. Some things are still drying. I'll take glamour shots later today or tomorrow.
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Re: Softscience Labs 2.5
That is a stunner Ralph, it looks pretty glamourous to me in that shot alone!
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Re: Softscience Labs 2.5
Two thumbs up Ralph.
Besting 60 years of mediocre building of average kits in the stand off scale
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Really nice one. I have this kit now (and again I blame you ) on the birthday list. Position One
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I'm watching one on eBay; my resistance is diminishing with each update on this build!Marek wrote:Really nice one. I have this kit now (and again I blame you ) on the birthday list. Position One
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iggie wrote:I'm watching one on eBay; my resistance is diminishing with each update on this build!Marek wrote:Really nice one. I have this kit now (and again I blame you ) on the birthday list. Position One
Give in, stop resisting!
Man...Trumpeter should be giving me free models. ;)
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Next up on the bench; Eduard's sublime MiG-15 kit.
I actually started this a little bit ago, so here is the digest version of work done to date.
Step 1. Built all the big, simple sub-assemblies (wings, exhaust, major cockpit tub/nose well, etc.
Step 2. Painted all the gray bits gray. These were later given a wash and drybrushing (will show later)
Step 3. Cockpit work, using the excellent PE parts supplied with the kit.
Step 4. Closed up the fuselage. This is where I'm at now.
I actually started this a little bit ago, so here is the digest version of work done to date.
Step 1. Built all the big, simple sub-assemblies (wings, exhaust, major cockpit tub/nose well, etc.
Step 2. Painted all the gray bits gray. These were later given a wash and drybrushing (will show later)
Step 3. Cockpit work, using the excellent PE parts supplied with the kit.
Step 4. Closed up the fuselage. This is where I'm at now.
Re: Softscience Labs 2.5
Great finish on the Mig-29. Very sharp. The Mig-15 too. Love the work in the cockpit!
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That looks a great kit, and seeing the cockpit sides made up also explains how MiG got the air from the nose to the engine; I'd always just assumed that it went under the cockpit floor in some way rather than past the sides!
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Yep, I was surprised to see that too. A neat solution, really.
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That Eduard MiG-15 kit really does look sublime Ralph and you have made an excellent start to it. I'm also surprised at the way the intake was designed, well I never, they were clever chaps at the MiG design bureau!
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Well this is embarrassing. I was trying to work some of the warp out of the wing, which I noticed only after gluing the halves together. I was bending and twisting just a wee bit, when SNAP! The top half shattered almost all the way through. I glued it back and covered the wound with Mr. Surfacer.
Hopefully I can clear any marred surfaces enough for the NMF.
Otherwise I may have to use my leftover Hungarian decals from the Airfix MiG-15. We'll see.
Hopefully I can clear any marred surfaces enough for the NMF.
Otherwise I may have to use my leftover Hungarian decals from the Airfix MiG-15. We'll see.