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janman

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  1. Had missed this altogether. Wow, finally a new MiG-19!
  2. "Yeah, nice addition, but where's my bis?" was of course my initial reaction (knowing the bis was postponed until... never?) but now that you showed the marking options, why not! Funny thing, I was just fiddling (quite seriously, actually) with my Trumpeter 1/32 MF with the help of the WWP book. Despite of the long list of corrections needed, I was slowly warming. Until I bumped into a thread somewhere where a guy had found out the nose area is seriously too short. The shape of it is known to be rather bad, but the length issue really put me down...
  3. The total lack of piano hinges on this kit bothers me. It's especially evident on the nose area, where they are very visible, but on the real aircraft they are found also on the rear fuselage sides. It's hard to represent them as they should be but even a simpler version clearly enhances the look.
  4. That wingspan really needs a banana for scale, Ken!😀
  5. The wings and the fuselage were joined two days ago. Since I've been a hardcore 1/72 builder, I didn't have big enough clamps for a model this thick. Suitable were found from my son's toys: I ended up using screw clamps from a Hot Wheels car track. Their strength was just enough for this job. The fit was quite okay although I did several dry-fitting exercises to get them right. I also assembled the intakes. With the interior painted the fit was very snug. I didn't glue them with fuselage yet but just wanted them to dry in to the right shape while being dry-fitted with it. I can al
  6. Thanks, fellas. I too like the contrast between the pink and the turquoise. I'll probably add some for the front gear well too, which actually gets me to another front gear part: the mudguard. The kit mudguard looks very plain even though its shape is pretty accurate. I added the prominent strengthening strips for the sides, some rows of rivets and engraved details. Should do it.
  7. I guess it pretty fair to say now that it really shows.
  8. Ah, pure scale model ***n. Wonderful stuff, Chriss! You couldn't be more analytical.
  9. Indeed is! Will have to try out these new Foxbats. How did it go together?
  10. I had this! The exact boxing. Bought it from the Finnish Aviation Museum, but never built it. Around the same time I tried to build an Airfix MiG-21 with Finnish markings, but both were thrown into a trash bin. I was around 20 and thought this hobby is for kids. And here we still are. 😀
  11. Thank you for your comments. Here even a less steady hand works just fine since the pink "hermetika" sealant was usually applied very roughly. The pattern on the floor seems to be fairly common if one wants to do this on their model. I also added the red lever for the pilot's IP.
  12. I'll probably do a B since the kit sheet includes one (the one with blue bort nr., 72?). I want an earlier example. I actually would have preferred a Soviet bird but that would mean more work. I had some fit problems with the wings - still have. The lower part of the wing just goes too deep inside the top part and creates a rather nasty step both near the wing tip and at the LERX.
  13. The pit. For the colour I used AK's "Russian cockpit turquoise" which works fairly well. The photos are taken in natural light - which we don't have much here in the North in mid-November. Decals are provided for every single panel in the cockpit and they are quite accurate and fit almost perfectly. I'm against decals as instrument panels especially when we have such well defined and crisp details in the pit. On the other hand, it's impossible to paint the dials as well as they are presented in the decals so I opted for a hybrid technique. After major colours I picked
  14. Hmm... Makes sense, although I found the slots being fairly well defined and if one follows the instructions and keeps turning the engine at the location it's meant to reside, the engine almost locks on when it hits that slot. Then again, we seem to miss even some very obvious things when building models...
  15. I had to lift this sentence from your thread because in a way it reveals something essential in our hobby. The quest for a perfect kit seems like an eternal mission. There's something fundamentally Finnish in that sentence too. 😄 After all these years I'm always positively surprised when everything goes together like a dream. Wonderful work there. Stunning paint job and weathering!
  16. What a handsome machine! Seems I missed the WIP thread altogether. I know where I'm going next!
  17. Crap. I feel your pain. Just proves this is not as easy kit as it appears. Just reminds me of the recent Tamiya 1/48 Tiger I finished. Despite of it being a Tamiya kit, I still managed to put the gun and it's mantlet upside down and realized it only when I was starting to paint the whole thing... "Hmm... Every Tiger in this book has it's mantlet machine gun on the opposite side when compared to mine" Dang...
  18. Oh, what could that be? And you mean the ones inside the engines with flame holders? Or the "final" section, visible ouside?
  19. Whiskey, sorry about the bad photo. It doesn't really show anything. But if you have the kit, you'll instantly see how the whole thing is just a two dimensional lump and the handle part doesn't have the kink in the middle. With some reference photos it is easy to see how to alter it. Just scroll down a bit: https://www.vitalykuzmin.net/Military/790IAP/i-97Jp3Jh# I'll post better pics once I'll finish them. This is just a raw version.
  20. Had missed this too but I'm so happy that you happened to bring it up, Don! Great stuff here! I still remember this race, not from TV (it wasn't necessarily broadcast here at the time) but I remember the magazine article covering this race on our local motor sport magazine that my father was subscribing for decades. Keke was a national hero at that time (having won the championship in -82) and I still remember every Williams and McLaren he drove. It is big shame there are no injection models of these cars, not even from the championship year. Those were the golden yea
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