Flankerman Posted March 30, 2008 Share Posted March 30, 2008 After a long struggle with the Ukrainian Deka vacform kit of the Beriev Be-10 jet flying boat, I finally finished it..... The interior of the cockpit and navigator's station are scratchbuilt, the rear gun position is from the Roden An-12 kit grafted on - with lots of adjustment - the beaching gear is scratch built, as are the twin front cannon, intakes, jetpipes etc ..... I used decals from the spares box - the kit ones broke up, despite giving them a coat of varnish. I didn't have anything in my spares for the large bort numbers on the nose - my preferred kit decal option, 'Yellow 41' was unusable, so I tried to make replacements and printed them on inkjet clear decal film. When I applied them the yellow was translucent!!! - so I reprinted on white decal film - but then I had to cut around them to eliminate the white. After a couple of disasters and a frustrating two days, I gave up on Yellow 41, re-varnished the other kit option (Red 10) and carefully applied those - I'm still not too happy with the results .......on the ramp at Taganrog....... More photos - including the build sequence - here 'In Progress' thread here.... Comments (good or bad!) welcome...... Cheers Ken Quote Link to post Share on other sites
dragan_mig31 Posted March 30, 2008 Share Posted March 30, 2008 this is great build ken.i like it.you surley almost lost your nervs with this one Quote Link to post Share on other sites
phantomdriver Posted March 30, 2008 Share Posted March 30, 2008 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Bill B Posted March 30, 2008 Share Posted March 30, 2008 It's a seaplane, it's a jet and it's Russian - Very very kool! and a well done build. thanks for sharing! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
rjwood_uk Posted March 30, 2008 Share Posted March 30, 2008 that is pretty dam cool!!!! never even heard of it before. great model. i love your backdrop! Richard Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Marcin_S Posted March 30, 2008 Share Posted March 30, 2008 Very nice indeed ! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Albert Moore Posted March 30, 2008 Share Posted March 30, 2008 You're my modeling hero, Ken. Well done and kudos to both a neat subject and the skill to pull it off. Cheers, Alby Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Lucien Harpress Posted March 30, 2008 Share Posted March 30, 2008 Hm... from the side it doesn't really look like it should be able to fly, doesn't it? Sorta like a bee in that respect, I guess..... Very nice work, and on a vacuform, too. After watching your in-progress thread, I'm happy to see the finished result. All of your hard work on the little details (squared-off planing bottom, new rear position, etc.) really paid off. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
mbittner Posted March 30, 2008 Share Posted March 30, 2008 Excellent work as usual, Ken. You're definitely one of the ones to look up to when it comes to VVS modeling!!! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
ChernayaAkula Posted March 31, 2008 Share Posted March 31, 2008 That came out really nice! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Karl Sander Posted March 31, 2008 Share Posted March 31, 2008 Enjoyed the in-progress thread, and REALLY enjoy the result! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Sebastijan Posted March 31, 2008 Share Posted March 31, 2008 Outstanding job on a difficult kit! And another one of a kind in your collection and ARC critique corner! Good job! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
GoBlue96 Posted March 31, 2008 Share Posted March 31, 2008 Wow! Really amazing, great job! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
mario krijan Posted March 31, 2008 Share Posted March 31, 2008 Again, Ken, excellent bird! for me decals are great! it looks great especially in fact that you have minor amount of photos and books! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Flankerman Posted March 31, 2008 Author Share Posted March 31, 2008 (edited) Again, Ken, excellent bird! for me decals are great! it looks great especially in fact that you have minor amount of photos and books! ;) Thanks for the kind words guys...... Actually Mario, references on the Be-10 are not too bad....... Yefim Gordon's Red Star book 'Beriev's Jet Flying Boats' (Volume 28) has a chapter on it - with lots of B&W photos. The same article is also in International Air Power Review Volume 8 - with the addition of a small colour side profile of the red-trimmed (Red 41) machine that took part in a couple of flypasts. I also used the Ukrainian magazine 'Aviatsiya i Vremya' - 4/200 - which has a 'monograph' on the Be-10 (with mostly the same B&W photos). It also has some great 1:72 scale drawings - which proved very useful for making the beaching gear...... I also found a copy of 'Kriliya Rodiny' (1-2004) with the same info - but its colour profile has different red trim. Cheers Ken Edited March 31, 2008 by Flankerman Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Rocat Posted March 31, 2008 Share Posted March 31, 2008 never saw this one! great work. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Aggressor Supporter Posted March 31, 2008 Share Posted March 31, 2008 Nice model and diorama. Well done. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Backfire Posted April 1, 2008 Share Posted April 1, 2008 Very nice job, Ken - it's always a treat to see your builds! Keith Quote Link to post Share on other sites
vivkulan Posted April 1, 2008 Share Posted April 1, 2008 Ken, Your model looks great.Decals looks great.So don't worry about it. Do they still use this airplane in Russia? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Tancist Posted April 1, 2008 Share Posted April 1, 2008 Ken, I think, you a real Hero, because you have finished that crude kit. Complete plane will not be so impressive, if don't know about process of making :unsure: Quote Link to post Share on other sites
sc2f100 Posted April 1, 2008 Share Posted April 1, 2008 I've seen this kit in it's unbuilt stage, and you're a much better man than me, Ken! Seriously nice job of making a silk purse from a sow's ear. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
TuveB Posted April 4, 2008 Share Posted April 4, 2008 I saw the building thread. An ugly a/c, a bad kit and you did this! I can only do this: :P Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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