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Sebastijan

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  1. Thank you, guys! Actually we both used same paints - Mr.Paint Medium Grey, Dark and Light Ghost grey. The major difference was me using the black surfacer as primer, while Mitja used grey one, which created some difference in the finished look.
  2. Beautiful Finnish MiG! I had Zvezda kit but sold it, as I was anticipating Eduard will release it 😞
  3. In December, one of the guys in a modelling group I am part of, gave an idea - let's do a "One week wonder" group build - you've got the first week of 2024 to start and finish a kit from your stash. I was up for the challenge and picked up HobbyBoss' easy kit F-84. It's not a bad kit per se and it has a few weak points but for a price for around 5€/$, it's hard to complain. Decals come from Hi-decals and represent one of the 34 of Imperial Iranian Air Force F-84Gs. Link to the article and full gallery: https://vvsmodelling.com/2024/01/08/republic-f-84g-thunderjet/
  4. About a year ago, me and my buddy Mitja decided, we should build the same kit from our stash but do it in our own ways - we picked GWH F-14D in 1:72 and picked VF-101 Grim reapers squadron, me going high vis, Mitja low vis. There was some aftermarket used - I used metal pitot tube, resin wheels and burner cans, while Mitja went with wheels and ejection seats. For the purposes of my vignette I also used excellent Reedoak figures. My vignette is called "Last season, baby!" and shows preseason photo shoot of one of the two display aircraft for the last Tomcat airshow season in 2004.
  5. I was happily patiently waiting for this aircraft, got it still warm after release at Moson and after that followed more than 4 months of arduous work, trying to stick the parts together to look like something and got very close to binning it a few times. But I persevered and here she is. The build article is in the In Progress section of the forums and the full gallery and article on my page: https://vvsmodelling.com/2023/12/03/mig-23mla-flogger-g/
  6. Weapons: missiles are a nightmare to build - nothing wrong with them, really, but just for example, the little R-60s are made out of 13 parts each plus over 20 stencil decals. The larger R-24s are a little better construction wise, but again many decals slows the build down. They look good though in the end! Landing gear: It is a complex affair on the real aircraft and the same goes with the model. While the gear struts have nice secure locating positions, great care must be taken attaching all the landing gear covers and their associated actuator arms. Wheels: I have to say I
  7. I agree with Ken - by using motion blurred base you are implying at a fast scene at low level. Any clouds in this case would be further away and not as blurred if it all due to the distance of a subject.
  8. Thanks mate! Thanks rom! Hvala Mario! Again playing with oil paints, I've faded and distressed the plain look of pale blue grey undersides... Some streaking was added and as you can see, the wheels assembly has started.
  9. I liked the previous result of the oil paint rendering and though I could push it even further for more fading. Even though it is time consuming, I am really starting to love this technique.
  10. she's such a beaut! can't wait to start mine!
  11. Good paint, good airbrush and lots of painting is the recipe for doing it 😉 With decals applied and everything sealed in with an excellent VMS Satin Varnish it is time to play with oils. If you are following this build from the beginning you might have noticed that I didn't use any of the preshading or black basing I would have normally used. That is, because I decided to create all the weathering and paint fading using oil paints. I admit it is a time consuming job that takes time and patience but at the same time gives you total control over the final outcome. I am using Abtei
  12. I don't want to be misunderstood - I fully support any and every incentive to keep the channel alive!
  13. Those are all nice ideas, the only issue I see is the difference in time zones. I will open up a #suggestions thread on the channel for such things and #announcements for easier scheduling of possible video presentations and such. Glad to see the membership is slowly rising as well.
  14. Decals time! Decals for this kit were printed by Decograph. The printing is great, vibrant opaque colours, no offset noticed and the resolution is also high - the tiny stencils are almost readable. The carrier film is really thin which is good and bad - when they go down they just become one with the surface without the need for decal softening solutions. The bad side is, that they have a nasty tendency to fold on themselves. It is not a big problem with the larger decals like bort numbers and stars, but applying stencils was quite a challenging job and I have to admit, there are several missi
  15. Hey everyone! It has been suggested that I should start a new topic for added visibility. I've set up the unofficial ARC Discord server. Invite link: https://discord.gg/8M8fcRWaMy There's a few of us already chatting away, live video chat was also tested, as well as sharing photos of our works etc. For those unfamiliar with Discord - it's a free to use app, that enables live text chat, easy sharing of photos as well as voice and video chats. You can use it in browser but I recommend downloading the desktop or smartphone/tablet app.
  16. Clearprop provided a plentitude of really nice camouflage schemes with this kit - a Soviet 4-tone scheme, a Czech and Czechoslovak one as well as East German one... And in other boxings attractive North Korean and Cuban ones amongst others. I was kind of on the edge of choosing between Soviet and Czech ones and decided I might do Czech MF sometime in the future and so I went with the Soviet option of "white bordered 31" from the 821st IAP. The camo was free hand painted using my trusty old Harder & Steenbeck Airbrush Evolution Silverline with MR. Paint lacquers as usual!
  17. Oh! I didn't expect that such things would be happening so fast, but yeah, that's exactly the thing Discord enables you to do - interactive chat room - I don't see it as a replacement for the forums but more like an interactive real time extension of it. Good ideas and glad it was tested!
  18. Hey everyone! I've set up the unofficial ARC Discord server. Invite link: https://discord.gg/8M8fcRWaMy For those unfamiliar with Discord - it's a free to use app, that enables live text chat, easy sharing of photos as well as voice and video chats. You can use it in browser but I recommend downloading the desktop or smartphone/tablet app. Looking forward to see you there.
  19. Bringing this topic back to life - Mitja's picking up his work again so here's a tale of some legs 🙂 While there's nothing wrong with GWH's landing gear struts, they always look so better when you add some wiring to them. Mitja's: I have used 0.2mm lead wire for most of the wiring and various bits and pieces. The landing light was drilled out, painted in chrome given a black wash and then filled with clear UV curing resin, which I think improves the looks quite significantly.
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