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  1. Steve-the-Duck

    Chris' Trumpeter 1/144 Chengdu J-7E

    Kind of what I'm thinking too! What on earth possessed me to even attempt this!? Half a can of left over yellow spray
  2. Steve-the-Duck

    My first 1/24 figure

    For a first go, that's pretty good
  3. Steve-the-Duck

    Chris' Trumpeter 1/144 Chengdu J-7E

    And I've decided, with all the pics of the August 1 team, to respray the whole 'plane white as a base Straightforward build. Decidedly not straightforward finish Let's see how masking goes
  4. Steve-the-Duck

    Chris' Trumpeter 1/144 Chengdu J-7E

    Yeah, but the illustration shows a thin black cheat line around the yellow. That's going to be fun
  5. Steve-the-Duck

    Chris' Trumpeter 1/144 Chengdu J-7E

    While leaving the aluminium to dry for a couple of days, just in case the masking pulls it off, or some similar disaster, time to do a bit more photo research. Still can't find one picture of the Olympic 'planes, but I did find lots of photos of the PLAAF August 1 display team. Trumpeter even...
  6. Steve-the-Duck

    Chris' Trumpeter 1/144 Chengdu J-7E

    On the Ye-2, I just painted the door detail, there being two indentations, but I've gone a bit further this time Looks a bit scrappy, but the image is like five times enlarged! I might not put any of the extra framing in :ROFLMAO: And all over Metalcote aluminium And just because they take...
  7. Steve-the-Duck

    DaveCov's Airfix 1/35 British M3 Stuart 'Honey' (A1358)

    I get it. It's one of those schemes that lightens toward the top, like some of the eight colour French schemes. That top colour is basically Silver Grey, should have realised that before!
  8. Steve-the-Duck

    Macchi mc202 Folgore 1/72 finished

    Oh, I had that one, since sold off again. The one that screws together and then has little caps over the screw-heads. Not bad in detail and accuracy either
  9. Steve-the-Duck

    DaveCov's Airfix 1/35 British M3 Stuart 'Honey' (A1358)

    Nice, even if it's a non-Caunter desert vehicle!:D Never seen a scheme quite like that before. Very interesting
  10. Steve-the-Duck

    Chris' Trumpeter 1/144 Chengdu J-7E

    And lastly on the wings, the illustration show the inner weapon pylon fitted, but not the outers. Not that either are mentioned on the plans, but there's a complete weapons sprue in the kit Just had to remove the actual weapons rail And there we go Still a bit more filling, and clearing to go...
  11. Steve-the-Duck

    Chris' Trumpeter 1/144 Chengdu J-7E

    Well, the little shims worked, and filled the wing root a bit too. Every one of these adds to reducing he learning curve for the next one to do! You can see here only the starboard side has the wheel bulge in the fuselage, which is too small and too far forward Hmm. A bit more filler than I...
  12. Steve-the-Duck

    Chris' Area-88 1/144 Ye-4 Conversion (Neil's Blooming Migs Everywhere GB)

    No it's not! Especially with how scrappy some things look blown up with my camera! But, by the same token, you can get away with quite a lot in this scale. And they don't take up much space either! Though my 1/144 An-225 is bigger than the 1/48 Su-27! Wait, etch seatbelts and control panels...
  13. Steve-the-Duck

    Letov s16 in 1/72 KP models

    Which is why I snap up every Aeroclub Vickers K (and I think a Lewis gun too in there) I can find cheap at a show, and replace the weird blobs I've got in some kits!. AZ and Amodel guns aren't bad, but don't get me started on the nightmare that is the Eduard Scarff ring! The Aldershot gun is...
  14. Steve-the-Duck

    Chris' Trumpeter 1/144 Chengdu J-7E

    Wings. Got some work ahead here The undercarriage bay usually has a bulge above the wing, not a blinking gert hole. Not insurmountable, just lots of little gaps to fill all round Fit of parts is pretty good, without too much work needed. But then the kit is only just legally allowed to...
  15. Steve-the-Duck

    Chris' Trumpeter 1/144 Chengdu J-7E

    Okay, so here's the whole build in twenty minutes Couple of bits of strip to go in the airbrake slot, otherwise it just hangs in space A few places to fill and go over to cover the seam And the airbrake just pushes in. I wasn't going to have it deployed on the ground. The bit sticking out...
  16. Steve-the-Duck

    Letov s16 in 1/72 KP models

    That windscreen must have been 'fun'. Still the surround protected it, I guess. Me, I'd have cut a piece out of one of the big sheets of acetate I've got But that's just me Now they're painted and fitted, the guns look a bit more basic than I first thought. But how much detail can you add...
  17. Steve-the-Duck

    Chris' Trumpeter 1/144 Chengdu J-7E

    Apparently, the ASCC reporting name for the J-7 / F-7 is 'Fishcan' Really I mean, is it just there's a list of these names to randomly apply?
  18. Steve-the-Duck

    Chris' Trumpeter 1/144 Chengdu J-7E

    Is it a MiG? It's in my MiG-21 book! So, No.3 is going to be built entirely OOB, as I really ought to do at least one of these that way! The J-7 series are the ultimate development of the Chinese licence-built MiG-21s. They may still be the largest number of fighter aircraft in the PLAAF...
  19. Steve-the-Duck

    Macchi mc202 Folgore 1/72 finished

    Sweet
  20. Steve-the-Duck

    Macchi mc202 Folgore 1/72 finished

    When you say 'bigger' do you mean scale, or number of engines?

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