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Aloha from Hawai‘i

Like Skull Leader, I've been planning a captured Israeli plane.

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My kids gave me this kit (boxed with a Mig-17) for Father's Day and I figured that I'd jazz it up a bit.

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Just finishing another IAF plane lately, but it was too far along to qualify for the GB though.

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Thanks Marlin,

I saw your 107 in the Base Gallery. I can't decide between 107 and 243 for the F-16 above.

One question though, did 107 have a kill mark when they flew the Osirak raid? I thought those came after...

ND

ND,

I've not seen a pic with the kill mark before the Osirak raid, but It could have been there since #107 got its first kill in April 81.

So maybe its just some artistic licence, but......

Best Regards

Bosse from Sweden

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Still test fitting the wings.

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As for paint vs. decals I still haven't decided.

The F-16 kit above was for the Black Knights demo team and had huge red decals. So I have plenty to spare, but since the MiG is so small, I might just paint and mask it.

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Thanks Ian.

It certainly took long enough

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And the smallest masks weren't perfect (this was try number 4 for the port stab stripes)

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And I probably should've/could've done the painting in stages...

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but I kind of like the challenge of doing it all in one fell swoop

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Pretty happy with the results though:

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The smallest and trickiest masks seemed to work well

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I know this will sound crazy, but it really wasn't that much of a hassle.

I scanned in the kit's painting guides, sized them to scale, and drew the masking patterns in CorelDraw. I only drew one side and flipped/mirrored them for their pair on the other side.

Then I printed out the masks and used them as cutting guides for the tape.

Check out the wing, elevators, and arrow masks - they're all cut out of one piece of tape each. The tail chevron is the easiest to see this.

To do them all by hand really would've been nuts.

The tricky part was placing them.

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You make it sound simple Nick but I think you should give yourself more credit, that is a top, top job that has been superbly executed. :thumbsup:

Your masking skill is making me slightly green with envy :)

Keep up the excellent work :D

Cheers, Ian

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MiG is all done.

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There are a couple mistakes that I didn't notice till it was too late, and the decals are spares so are probably a little out of scale, but pretty happy overall. The kit was old, with raised panel lines so I put more energy into painting than construction and detailing.

One from the Falcon. Just did the panel wash. Very happy with the results. Only the starboard side has been done in this pic - see if you can see the difference. Pretty subtle, which is what I wanted.

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