GazzaS

HI Ivan, Thank you! I was planning on making all of the bare metal parts as dull/weathered/heated using pictures from online to guide me. For the leading edge of the wing, I just went with the panel lines provided... I may change it... The paint I used though acting like lacquer paint, is very fragile. Gaz

Looks sweet, Carl.

Thank everyone for their kind thoughts and likes. Well, April Fool's day has come and gone. And I'm still working on this beast. Today I added more parts and then puttied all of the 90-degree joints that needed it with an acrylic based putty that can be removed with a damp Q-tip or cloth. Unfortunately, the Spaztix, though acting like a lacquer, is easily affected by a little water and cotton. Go figure! I fear what will happen when I mask it. Anyway.... Here are some current photos taken in my foto booth with the light diffuser in place. Hardcore comparison photos will be taken once I have a weathered model to shoot. At this point, the gray details don't show... Looking at these photos, I have to say I'm not overly keen on the diffuser. but we'll see. Gaz

I was referring more to weathering, than anything else. But rock on man. Looking forward to seeing this beauty realized en' Plastique. Gaz

Looks great! Were you saving the hubs for a later step? Gaz

Carl, if yer gonna build a Sherman, you picked the coolest of the bunch! Martin... whatsa' hyrda? Gaz

Bold man... working with white!

I look forward to seeing the build as I meant to buy this kit last weekend, but left it sitting on the shelf by mistake. There are millions of us interested in German stuff who aren't Nazi sympathizers. I'm not an Anglophile despite the fact that I believe the best music ever made was created by young Englishmen experimenting with or heavily using drugs. I guess I don't consider myself a druggie sympathizer either. This hobby would be no fun if we worried about what everyone else thought. Rock on! Gaz

Well Comrades... It's been a while since my last update. And while I haven't had as much times as I'd like to work on the MiG, I have advanced a bit. Under the forward intakes, some reshaping and detail replacement was required. Though some of the fit issues of the kit can be managed by trimming the inside of the parts, the last bit had to be done from the outside. At one point, while using a beading tool to replace a rivet, it went clean through the remaining plastic. I also received my portable photo booth with LED lighting strips. Sop these three photos are the first taken within. It has three background colors, peach, white, and black. The hubs are Tamiya matte green mixed with Tamiya matte white and then sprayed with Future. The leading edges are painted with Spastix Chrome which I hope I can eventually weather into a passable steel. The black-primed areas near the engines will be given the Chrome treatment as well and then weathered to hopefully give an often-heated steel look. The area of both intakes took quite an effort to get together successfully. You might notice a bit of putty here and there. Thanks for looking! GAz

Great job! Love that the black has just enough sheen to show shape. Gaz

Filthy Marine aircraft??? I don't believe it.

hahaha!!

Martin, you are my hero!!

Hi everyone, Of all the hardest images to find of an y specific aircraft, are those taken from above. Walkaround photos abound, but most of the time, the upper surfaces are missed due to the fact that the cameraman isn't 12 feet tall. I'm hoping to see how the area above the engines weathered, or was treated by ground crew. I can find a few photos like this: but the angle is all wrong for seeing detail. Thanks for your help! Gaz

Nice approach! I really like the moulding of that kit.

Bravo. James!!!

Wow! Those 20mm cannon sleeves look very penis-like

Harv, Donald Duck says: "Good luck to me!'

Rob, Interesting project. The nice fit is (I'm guessing) is because Pegasus makes snap-fit models: I've never bought one of their kits. but I have seen them at the LHS. Gaz

OMG... not one song I have heard even once! Congrats on your career change!! Gaz

Nice work on creating those parts!

Splendid!

That looks awesome! I'm curious: What was the armament of these Spanish birds? Gaz

I got caught by the rumor that AMK was going to build a MiG-25.