Marcel du Long Posted May 14, 2015 Posted May 14, 2015 Hi folks, Started building a Mig 3 a couple of years ago. After a couple of years on the shelves (cause building planes is sooooo stressful) I picked this one up and here some wips pics. For some reason (probably cause it's so cool ) I decided to finish it in bare metal, wood & green primed aluminium. But hey listen up, I'm not that much interested in historical correctness and just want to have a fun ride. So we go with some pics. The status as it was a week ago on my desk: Painting the wood starting with masking. Primed it white and applied a pre-shade. Airbrushed a basic wood color layer with some streaks. The wooden panellines were carefully masked and airbrushed. The grain effect was hand-painted using a flat brush & Liquitex acrylic ink. The bare metal was done straight from a Humbrol spraycan. Yup I'm lazy. The elevators and other stuff to steer a plane. Masking for pre-shading. And the easy way to do a pre-shade. Added a black thinned acrylic wash and after drying I sanded it with a 1000+ grain. Green painted aluminium result. The 3 materials together. Okay folks now you are all up to par. Right now I bashed some figures and will post some pics of them soon. Marcel 4
Administrators JeroenPeters Posted May 14, 2015 Administrators Posted May 14, 2015 Oh lord... I've seen your build on Facebook, but these larger pics really do it justice. That is one sweet Mig! It's actually a pretty good kit. Good fit and pretty detailed and correct from the box. Love to see some washes on it! 1
Marcel du Long Posted May 19, 2015 Author Posted May 19, 2015 Thnx folks. Posed the figs. These are converted figs from some 1/35 Miniart sets and some arms from the sparebox. The right figures head is from Hornet and I got no clue were the left head is from. The Miniart 1/35 figs are quite tall in comparison to 1/35 Dragon or Tamiya ones so these ones fit good with a 1/32 plane. Hard to find some descent 1/32 mechanics. There a loads of WWII/WWI aces etc.. and Zoukei Mura but that's about it. Should switch to 1/48. The tail of the plane will be lifted from the ground with some wooden structure so the plane will be in horizontal position. Marcel 1
wackyracer Posted May 19, 2015 Posted May 19, 2015 This is so cool Marcel. I did the same with my Mig 3 but used Uschi's decals. Aaron 1
Johann Posted May 19, 2015 Posted May 19, 2015 Colleagues why the MiG-3 all make the exact same mistake? On these planes on the front visor when there was no metal ribbons! These aircraft have never been shoulder belts! 1
Marcel du Long Posted May 19, 2015 Author Posted May 19, 2015 Thnx Johann. Colleagues why the MiG-3 all make the exact same mistake? On these planes on the front visor when there was no metal ribbons! These aircraft have never been shoulder belts! Like I mentioned in my introduction thread; I don't bother about historical correctness. Just want to have fun building & finish models, dios & vignettes and rivet counting or research on specific RAL colors etc.. is boring me. I just leave that to others. Marcel. 3
Marcel du Long Posted May 19, 2015 Author Posted May 19, 2015 Thnx Aaron. I saw your builld and it's very inspiring. Very nice and clean build. Got some Ushi wood decals here but wanted to create my own handcrafted wood as you can see. Oh and your canopy finish is da bomb! Superb shiny. Marcel.
Johann Posted May 19, 2015 Posted May 19, 2015 Thnx Johann. Like I mentioned in my introduction thread; I don't bother about historical correctness. Just want to have fun building & finish models, dios & vignettes and rivet counting or research on specific RAL colors etc.. is boring me. I just leave that to others. Marcel. In any case - any approach to a model worthy of admiration, if in the end it looks nice, and gives satisfaction 1
youngtiger1 Posted May 20, 2015 Posted May 20, 2015 Wow, that pretty cool Marcel. Your woodgrain effect done by hand is down right fablous. I will try and use your work as a reference while I practice the trick 1
Marcel du Long Posted June 17, 2015 Author Posted June 17, 2015 Thnx folks! Just started with the pinwashes and almost finished the bottom. Thnx god planes having a bottom e.g. experiment area. Since I dind't want to screw up the intesive paintjob I did not want to use the white spirit/ oil combi neither the acrylic ink/Tamiya X-20a combi. So I used gouache (water-based paint) and demake-up stuff. But after washing the panel lines with gouache and rubbing of the paint with a cotton pad the paint still came out of the panel lines. So I used a polishing wax together with a cotton stick & pad and that did work a very well! Oh my, that was an EUREKA moment you can say. Not only the excess paint was removed but also the painted surface was polished. A win win. Even a win win win cause I still can the tweak/remove/adjust the pinwash with water. The wheel bays are yet only treated with a pencil so they still need a pinwash. I try to finish this one first as clean as possible and no weathering is yet applied. When that's done I gonna add tear & wear. Bye, Marcel. 1
Classicair Posted June 22, 2015 Posted June 22, 2015 Very cool indeed. I like the multi cors, the visual effect. It makes you rwyes wander and view the entir emodel. Nice going. Steve 1
Administrators JeroenPeters Posted June 22, 2015 Administrators Posted June 22, 2015 Good save! Really cool.... 1
Marcel du Long Posted June 23, 2015 Author Posted June 23, 2015 Thnx folks. I used gouache for the washes on the bottom but when dry those pinwashes are still quite fragile so I went for acrylic ink for the top surfaces. The end result is more or less the same but when inks are much "stronger". 2
Administrators JeroenPeters Posted June 23, 2015 Administrators Posted June 23, 2015 Damn.. that looks immaculate. I must try this myself! 1
Administrators Fran Posted June 26, 2015 Administrators Posted June 26, 2015 wow!!! Just amazing! Thanks Marcel for some good tips! 1
JonathanReed Posted June 26, 2015 Posted June 26, 2015 The build and pictures are so clean! Wish i could see this in person! Inspirational. 1
Marcel du Long Posted November 20, 2015 Author Posted November 20, 2015 Thnx folks for your flattering words. Just finished this one. http://forum.largescalemodeller.com/topic/4186-mikoyan-gurevich-mig-3-132-trumpeter/ See ya, Marcel. 1
Dave J Posted November 20, 2015 Posted November 20, 2015 Very nice! I have one sitting my pile that I should finish one of these days! 1
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