MIG-29UB Fulcrum B

[Yso]

I've been following! I check in frequently so keep the updates coming please!

Aaron

OK, You asked for it, remeber. :D/> :D/> Here they are.

I have been busy on the last few days with this bird. The reschribing and riveting is almost done, the cockpik's glasses are in place, and the PE-s are getting their right position as we "speak". :D/>

But before that, i have done the platings on the wings. For this work i have made an express mask. Don't wanted to do it one by one. It was a pain in the..... back when i made it just for testing at one position, with masking tape.

So i've made photos from the wings, and putted them into my CAD program, where i could make the master drawings. Then printed out a test page. Which came out promisingly good. After that i switche the paper to my self adhesive foil, and printed the drawings onto the back of that. Cutted out, placed where they should go, and airbrushed some thick surfacer to it.

Now i am waiting a little more for driing, then some polishing work is a must before a final surfacer coat.

I hope next week i will be able to begin the painting too. (If i will be good and skillful plus diligent enough, this birdie can go under the christmas tree. :D/>)

[Yso]

Yesterday afternoon a fellow modeller warned me, that other reinforcing plates are on the middle section of the fuselage. Which i didn't know about. So i made some masking again, and used the same method:

After that, the rest of the PE-s are installed, and today morning i have painted the whole modell with base white. There are minor mistakes have to be corrected, but i think the result is satisfactory. Much more MIG like, than the original kit.

[Yso]

The pinting has began. First the "belly of the beast", with some preshading. Used a well thinned mix of Gunze Aqua #68. Airbrushed mainly on the panel lines, than some other harder textures made with brush, and a small piece of cloth. Finally all was polished back with a 4000 grade sandpaper.

The uppper side will be done later. (Possibly with only post shading and texturing, due to the high numer of colors, and big contrasts.)

UPDATE: The lower side has got it's base color too.

For the upper side i decided to use these paints. (Maybe, some mixing will be done, and some test painting too, i don't know)

Edited December 13, 2013 by Yso

[Yso]

The upper side base coloring is underway. Three of the colors are painted already.

[mirage@enthusiast]

I see this project is running so fast.... some notes.... the auxiliary air intakes are open and the air intakes are closed.... in this case i mention you will seat pilots in the cockpit... becase this state of the intakes are real just when the engines are running!!!!!!!

Cheers Magyaralba

Ps: your album is getting into form and soon be posted

[Yso]

Hi Magyaralba,

yes, i know without a pilot seated in the cockpit, this modell wont't be an authentical one. I will think about that pilot thing again. (But knowing that i have zero soviet type pilot figure in my stash, the decision is.....)

I wanted to make this one look like this, leaving a little space ofr my modelling needs. :D The other one, what i have planned to build (Fulcrum A), will be closed all over, to be 100% authentical (I promise......) :D

[Yso]

Base color painting "done"

A little update: Some small parts painted too, and most of the masking removed. Now i am waiting for the paints to dry until tomorrow evening, after that some clear varnish will be next before decalling.

Edited December 16, 2013 by Yso

[mirage@enthusiast]

I know the carrier of the bad news were killed in the ancient Rome but.... i dont know what camouflage map was used by you but the atches and colours are wrong...from the four UB put in service in the NVA only one Mig-29 UB got the grey-brown-two tone green-light tan camouflage. That was the black/dark grey 148... the pait you have applied on this UB is not much of the exact aircraft!!!!!! I am sorry for this.... otherwise the paint job is nice and live this.

[Yso]

OK, now we are in the ancient Rome... ( THIS IS SPART...... ROME. )

You are right about the black 148. :cheers:/> Which is integrated later into the Luftwaffe, and reassigned under a new number. (29-22) Plus it was repainted on some areas to get the new Luftwaffe insignias. Mainly the vertical stabilizers and the wings got this treatment. Not much of a paintjob modification, but for example the tan area(s) on the verticals were repainted with a lighter green, leaving only a little area of it untouched.

There are two comuflage maps i managed to find on the net (plus i got one from a friend about a single seater, with wrong FS colour codes....).

The one was made by Americo Maia in 2001 for the 29-22, is absolutely useless. The other one made by Mariusz Wojciechowski in 2008 from the black 148, seemed correct. Compared to the photo(s) i had from that plane. Calculating in the paintjob for the new insignias, the camouflage is mainly right (I know, not 100% correct, but in that case, lets say it is a what-if project, calculating in the intake "problem" too... :cheers:/> )

So here is the camouflage map about the Black 148 (i managed to find one colour mistake on the drawing...)

Plus here is the photo taken from the same plane.

I have a photo from this one with the new insigna too, but due to copyright reasons, i cannot post it. (But you can find it on airliners.net)

PS: I have seen a photo too from the 29-24 (at least i think it was that one), with this same 4 colour scheme, however on other photos it has got the two-tone scheme applied.

Edited December 17, 2013 by Yso

[SERNAK]

GOOD JOB !!!!

[Floggerman]

Best reference is the AirDoc book "Luftwaffe Fulcrums" http://www.buchfreund.de/covers/13324/104800.jpg

I like your work so far!

[Yso]

THX Guys.

I will try to find one from that book. But i think this will be the only german fulcrum in my collection. The other, one seater fulcrum, in my stash is dedicated to become a hungarian one. +Others are just plans for the far-far future. Too many other kits are waiting before them. :D

Edited December 18, 2013 by Yso

[JMan]

very nice fulcrum!!!

[Yso]

very nice fulcrum!!!

THX JMan.

So two more day to Christmas evening, and there is still hope i will finish it till then....

A little weathering, panel line and rivet highlighting, and decalling is done. Closed with a layer of clear varnish. some more painting on the surface, the matte finish, the landing gears, and the weapons are between me and the finish...

Decals are mainly used out of the box, some stencils on the missile rails, and the plane numbers (29-22) are done by myself. (Because in the kit, there is the number 29-25, which has got only the two tone camouflage scheme, not this tactical one.)

[mirage@enthusiast]

The last camo map you have posted seems to be correct.... the dark brown is at the front edge of the left fin's outer surface... otherwise very nice bird... even if the auxiliary intakes are open

your dvd is start to travel between xmas and new years eve....

Merry Xmas Sir !

[Yso]

Thank you. Merry Xmas to you too. Plus thx for the DVD. I will search my stash during christmas for your goodies.

And finally i have decided to leave everything on this plane as is. There are more bigger problems at the build, than the opened grills, or the dark bronwn area on the verticals (for example, some dirt reamined in the cockpit, and the vapors of the cyano seems to got onto the clear parts too. :( it will be a big surgery to correct them.... Maybe when i get a soviet pilot figure for it. :D) . As my first attempt to build a MIG after the so many F-XX, i am satisfied however.

[Yso]

This birdie is 99% done. Only the missiles are missing, which will be painted only with my F-15D agressor's thingies (mainly waiting for his paint too).

So here it is. (will make better photos with neutral background when the missiles are done too)

Merry Xmas to every fellow modeller out there. :D

[Floggerman]

Very nice! Just a hint: There were only 2 rescue markings, not 3.

[Yso]

Very nice! Just a hint: There were only 2 rescue markings, not 3.

Oh for Cr..... out loud. That was the last time, i will stick to a decalling maunal.... It was strange for mee too, but the middle one looked different and i sad to myself, ok, then just put it on. Plus was "too lazy", to search the photo stash. Now i looked after it, and yes, the black 148 had got only two. The last one is "missing". :(

[Floggerman]

Maybe you can add the very prominent curtain on the front part of the canopy. It was installed until the planes were modified to MiG-29GT.

[Yso]

After finishing the missiles, it was just sitting on my shelf for a long time. But every time i was looking at it (among the others), i had a feeling it is missing something. It has closed canopy, no opened panels, no small red or other colored thingies hanging from it, representing a parking plane, or something. So i decided, to get a fresh start, and trying to make a little diorama with it (for the first time of my life). So i looked through my modelling stash, and schratched some covers etc. This is how turned out. (Have to make a cable connection from the helmet hanging on the pitot tube, and have to make a frmae for the base, and there it is...)

[Yso]

Finished.