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  1. Steve-the-Duck

    Chris's 1/144 Ye-4 Conversion

    The prominent later airbrake is removed, plus the mounting bar for the centerline pod The Ye-4 has 'pointy' delta wings, so that's a couple of bits of 20 thou added And on with the tailplanes, after narrowing down the fin chord, and removing all the extra widgets (which will be replaced in a...
  2. Steve-the-Duck

    Chris's 1/144 Ye-4 Conversion

    So, most of what follows is the work of one day, while paint and stuff is drying on the Ye-2 First off, a lot of the raised detail is removed. No idea what all the rivets top and bottom of the wing are supposed to be In order to move the tailplanes up, what turned out to be a single piece had...
  3. Steve-the-Duck

    Chris's 1/144 Ye-4 Conversion

    And on to the second MiG-21 prototype. And I haven't even finished the first one yet! The Ye-4 is the delta-wing prototype, which lead to the Ye-5, Ye-6 and finally the service -21. All of the above are on the cards The 'kit' is part of a set from the Area-88 manga and anime, which is the...
  4. Steve-the-Duck

    Chris's 1/144 Ye-2 Conversion

    Krasnaya zvezda! Decals are Four+. And I can see me needing a lot more red stars in the near future!
  5. Steve-the-Duck

    Chris's 1/144 Ye-2 Conversion

    Completion has now come within the forseeable end Bit of framework on the kit canopy. Still have to make the rear section Added a bit of detail to the cockpit, and to cover a big hole in the structure. Y'know, the resolution of these pictures just makes me cringe some times
  6. Steve-the-Duck

    Airfix - FV603 Alvis Saracen

    Some things are so ugly they're almost pretty. Or pretty ugly. That's come up a real treat,(y). I still wonder what's inspired Airfix to do all these 'period' pieces, other than many modellers are of a certain age to remember them all Still, I am not not going to buy all these vehicles. No...
  7. Steve-the-Duck

    Porsche 959

    That's, eye-catching Or I should get some sunglasses
  8. Steve-the-Duck

    Joe's Trumpeter 1/72 Mig-29C Fulcrum

    There you go. If you can, always check with reference photos of the subject you're recreating, as that often diverges, in interesting ways, from what a plan sheet might tell you
  9. Steve-the-Duck

    Warlord 28mm Cruisers in the Med

    The sub-turrets on the A9 especially, as they're effectively just unventilated dustbins! (resists temptation to insert Clacton election reference)
  10. Steve-the-Duck

    Airfix 1/72 GR9 Harrier

    1/72? No no no. At least 1/48 surely? 'Don't call me Shirley...'
  11. Steve-the-Duck

    BOATMANS XB-70 Valkyrie in 1/72 scale

    Built that thing waaay back when it was first released It's a bit large!
  12. Steve-the-Duck

    Italeri 1/72 Macchi mc202 Folgore

    Looking forward to that, even though I don't do 1/48 Regia Aeronautica. Still, there are those 1/32s keep calling to me... Only because I've not sold the ones I've got!
  13. Steve-the-Duck

    Letov s16 in 1/72 KP models

    Invariably, I just use rattle-can Humbrol silver for my RAF silver wings, and the pair of CR.20s were Humbrol aluminium, which does look quite dull
  14. Steve-the-Duck

    Italeri 1/72 Macchi mc202 Folgore

    Now that really does look the bizness
  15. Steve-the-Duck

    Chris's 1/144 Ye-2 Conversion

    Now there's a thought. Different primers and specs for different customers in different environments. I wonder if that is a thing?
  16. Steve-the-Duck

    Chris's 1/144 Ye-2 Conversion

    I have photos of a -21MF with distinctly orange main bays. I've no idea what that primer might be. I've just gone for a pale silver-grey. Now I just have to shade the doors as there's some very obvious framework/reinforcement there. I wonder whether the different colours correspond to time...
  17. Steve-the-Duck

    Chris's 1/144 Ye-2 Conversion

    So, next stage. Different shiny metal areas, with straight edges One thing I don't have a definitive answer to as yet is the colour of the wheel bays. Later -21s had orange or green primer bays, or bare metal. Time to search
  18. Steve-the-Duck

    Chris's 1/144 Ye-2 Conversion

    Okay, We're finished... Wait, what? Well, I've discovered I've run out of rattle-can silver, bur I do have two different aluminiums, and some chrome Probably should have grey undercoated first, because the first dull aluminium coat showed a number of pits on the wings. I thought about sticking...
  19. Steve-the-Duck

    'Tintin and the Shooting Star' Arado-196 - Airfix 1/72

    Just to prove I don't only do silver aeroplanes... 'Shooting Star' has Tintin, Haddock, Professor Phostle and members of the EFSR (European Foundation for Scientific Research) in a desperate race against a shady financier's expedition to recover a meteorite crashed in Arctic waters. This page...
  20. Steve-the-Duck

    Chris's 1/144 Ye-2 Conversion

    Frequently. What's your point?

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