GazzaS Posted March 14, 2019 Author Share Posted March 14, 2019 Excellent news, fellas! Thank you very much! I started on the cans last weekend, but then came four days of uninterrupted work. I hope to have a small update sometime tomorrow. Gaz 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GazzaS Posted March 15, 2019 Author Share Posted March 15, 2019 With a few hours to spare, here is an update on the MiG: I'm not a complete stranger to Ukrainian plastic. For size comparison I present my build of the UM Bf109G-14 in 1/48: The port side landing gear attaches at three points and consists of five parts. The starboard side looks just the same minus glue/paint thumbprint. For those of you hoping for a detailed engine... This is all there is. The white plastic is sheet I used to solidify an unsupported seam. The kind where one side will bow if you have to sand it. Looking up the cans: I should have worked a little harder on ejector pin marks. But, I missed some. Then there is this seam on one of the vanes.... Thanks for looking! Gaz 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GazzaS Posted March 16, 2019 Author Share Posted March 16, 2019 Another update... I'd better slow down before they raise my quota.... Anyway... The day started with gluing the large fuselage Dorsal section to cans and bracing frames. I had started on the twin rudders yesterday and had them puttied ready for sanding today. When first dry fitted, they showed some warpage: Each one also had an intake which needed a bit of work to make look neat: I had also closed up the nose cone with a 32g sinker glued in place with CA. Dry fitting showed a small bit of trimming was required: I tried cold-bending the rudders, but with seconds, there was a seam pop. So, I went with the hair dryer. Seems a little straighter. Hopefully the angles and dihedral are right...Anyone wanna input? There is room to squeeze the rudders closer... or I'll have to add a fillet. Back view: A side shot... She's big! Takes up more space than a 1/32 109. Anyway... all input appreciated. Hopefully I can find a useful plan drawing somewhere... Thanks for looking! Gaz 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GazzaS Posted March 24, 2019 Author Share Posted March 24, 2019 An operation has begun to save the MiG from the garbage bin. Due to an unfortunate drop, the right nacelle inner parts, which are part of the fuselage module became detached alongside the fuselage. AS part of a separate module, they had been glued under-pressure. I should have just pared away some plastic before I glued it in place! Trying to re-attach them became impossible due to angles inside the nacelle-fuselage joint. Thus far, I have had to cut away the forward third of the starboard outer engine panel, and detach the two inner walls of the starboard forward intake itself. Cutting away those pieces saw that the released pressure in the fuselage-intake joint opened a visible angle where the upper, inner sleeve of the intake diverged away from the fuselage. So, now I have re-glued the inner intake parts and am using pressure to realign the upper intake surface with the fuselage. This part passes deeply into the plane, and freeing it completely for re-shaping would have necessitated completely removing the upper carapace. Here it sits now: While we're here I'll update on other efforts: For some strange reason on this newly released kit, there is raised detail mixed with recessed detail. I can't imagine why they would have done it, but I strove to replace the raised details with various scribing tools. A lament I have seen in other jet-fighter build threads is the poor fit of the nose cone. This one required some work to mate cleanly around the area forward of the cockpit. I'll have to research the four probes and see how thin they should actually be. More scribing to do! While we're on the nose: Anyway... the glue is drying. Thanks for looking! Gaz 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DocRob Posted March 24, 2019 Share Posted March 24, 2019 That was a mighty drop, it seems, hope your rescue activities will solve the problem, good luck Cheers Rob 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ivan Ivanovich Posted March 24, 2019 Share Posted March 24, 2019 "NO MiG LEFT BEHIND." Just sayin'... Upper SRO IFF transponder aerials: elliptic cross section, appr. 0.1 mm thick in 48th scale, dull alumnium finish. (upper blade antenna just aft of the radome = SO-69 ATC transponder of PD/PDS a/c) Lower SRZ IFF interrogator antenna: Somewhat crude, but the shape is largely correct. On actual PD/PDS aircraft the SRZ antenna is located further to the right. Roughly 2 mm in 48th scale. Technically speaking... Colouring: 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Ivan Ivanovich Posted March 24, 2019 Share Posted March 24, 2019 Thanks a bunch Martin, But you do realise what happened to Harambe, don't you? By the way... My spirit animal is Sloth. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Martinnfb Posted March 24, 2019 Share Posted March 24, 2019 Ha ha ha, nice one :).... sloth you say ? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bomber_County Posted March 24, 2019 Share Posted March 24, 2019 Gaz looks like you’ve saved it ( no nothing about jets ) but bravo and pass the rum......... I should take on that moniker of sloth with my building speed ....... 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ivan Ivanovich Posted March 24, 2019 Share Posted March 24, 2019 1 hour ago, Bomber_County said: (...) I should take on that moniker of sloth with my building speed ....... 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GazzaS Posted March 25, 2019 Author Share Posted March 25, 2019 Ivan, Thank you for the great and informative photos. They really show so much detail not incorporated onto the surface of the model. This plane really needs a large scale representative! ...or somebody better at scribing than me. My panel lines look like they were drawn by an ECG machine. Phil, Thank you! Gaz 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
smitty44 Posted March 27, 2019 Share Posted March 27, 2019 Did someone say Bats? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GazzaS Posted March 27, 2019 Author Share Posted March 27, 2019 6 hours ago, smitty44 said: Did someone say Bats? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
smitty44 Posted March 27, 2019 Share Posted March 27, 2019 United States Marine Corps, there is a difference... 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GazzaS Posted March 28, 2019 Author Share Posted March 28, 2019 19 hours ago, smitty44 said: United States Marine Corps, there is a difference... 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GazzaS Posted March 31, 2019 Author Share Posted March 31, 2019 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 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DocRob Posted March 31, 2019 Share Posted March 31, 2019 Nie progress, Gaz, the bat is coming together. If you want to go steel finish, I can recommend Uschi van der Rosten pigments. Rubbed onto a primed surface gives a very convincing steel effect. There are only Iron, Steel and Chrome available, pity. These are the finest grained pigments I ever used. Congrats to your new booth, seems to be a Havox, right? I got the 80cm brother and will add two more LED strips to enhance lighting. Pity I can't get them here on my island, so this has to wait till my next visit in Germany. Cheers Rob 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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GazzaS Posted April 3, 2019 Author Share Posted April 3, 2019 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 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ivan Ivanovich Posted April 3, 2019 Share Posted April 3, 2019 It's coming together quite nicely, Gaz. The unpainted steel structures on actual MiG-25 aircraft only hold a rather dull and greyish metallic sheen. Except for the area immediately in front of the afterburner nozzles - titanium alloys, not steel. On aircraft with partially unpainted wing leading edges the unpainted area comprised only a few centimetres of the leading edge - approximately 4-5 cm on the top and appr. 3-4 cm on the underside. Certain batches of the MiG-25PD/PDS featured a slightly different leading edge assembly similar to RB and BM aircraft. You'll find PD/PDS aircraft with completely painted wings just as frequently. The leading edges of the stabilators were generally unpainted. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GazzaS Posted April 3, 2019 Author Share Posted April 3, 2019 4 minutes ago, Ivan Ivanovich said: It's coming together quite nicely, Gaz. The unpainted steel structures on actual MiG-25 aircraft only hold a rather dull and greyish metallic sheen. Except for the area immediately in front of the afterburner nozzles - titanium alloys, not steel. On aircraft with partially unpainted wing leading edges the unpainted area comprised only a few centimetres of the leading edge - approximately 4-5 cm on the top and appr. 3-4 cm on the underside. Certain batches of the MiG-25PD/PDS featured a slightly different leading edge assembly similar to RB and BM aircraft. You'll find PD/PDS aircraft with completely painted wings just as frequently. The leading edges of the stabilators were generally unpainted. 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 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Martinnfb Posted April 5, 2019 Share Posted April 5, 2019 http://techtraveling.ru/inscale/pamyatnik-mig-25pd-v-verxnepodpolnom/ 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GazzaS Posted April 5, 2019 Author Share Posted April 5, 2019 Thank you, Martin! If I only had the will to copy all of that detail that isn't on the model. An d if only ICM hadn't worked so hard to screw some things up. Still... It's a plane I've always wanted to model. Gaz 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Martinnfb Posted April 5, 2019 Share Posted April 5, 2019 I hear you buddy, The intake breakdown is challenging, yet it is the best Mug-25 on the market at the moment. Keep it up ! Cheers M. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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